Research (cont.)
After browsing through Mallika’s suggestions on what and who to research regarding my chosen topic, I’ve conducted even further research that’ll help finalise my idea.
3. i-D (Fall 2018 Earthwise Issue)
Owning the i-D magazine issue relevant to my topic of choice definitely helped shape what I wanted to include in my magazine layout.
One of the main spreads I focused on is the one of model Adut Aketch modelling of Balenciaga’s campaign with the World Food Programme and Demna Gvasalia’s interview on how fashion is a tool that can help change the world. Gvasalia’s writes that the WFP actually helped him back when he was still living in Abkhazia, Georgia at the age of 12 in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union.
The reason for focusing on this particular spread is because of how simple yet powerful the message of fashion has through words written on the garments. I especially liked the fashion director’s (Alastair Mckimm) choice of styling the same clothes throughout the pages which is what I intend to apply on my own shoot.
Nina Webster Reflective Journal 