Elle Johnston

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Fashion is a never ending cycle of change to coincide current trends within the world. Looking into this, animal print is a trend that is never out of fashion. My work explores the unimaginable possibilities to create bizarre animal human hybrids,. With leopards being my main representative I am exploring all aspects of leopard print, from dressing my leopards up in animal print dresses, to adding bold statement accessories, my models are never out of fashion. Providing these animals with human characteristics is allowing me to explore the fashion industry as a whole to understand how much animal print has been manipulated and shaped into something that is quite unrecognisable. I am able to observe how the slight change of colour or size of the print has changed from the natural animal print. Throughout my paintings, my models are able to shoot in their own fashion magazine and fashion catwalks as though in a real life event. Using a leopard as the main face of my work instead of a human provides you with the overall concept of bizarre and allows your imagination to open up and explore, whilst also educating you in the changes in the fashion industry first hand.

Using photoshop to develop my models into wallpaper samples. Using photoshop allowed me to place these models against contrasting patterns and create bold wallpaper samples. 

Catwalk

Bringing the fashion show to life. Using my models to represent the ideas of animal print and how differently the prints have been perceived within the fashion world.