Project evaluation

Throughout the beginning of the project while designing my Miss Havisham and Estella I tried to keep my designs as relevant to the Victorian era as possible. I wanted to keep my Miss Havisham very accurate to the fashions of the period as well as the personal hygiene problems of the time.

I began by researching the fashions for Victorian women during that specific era. I also looked at all the diseases the infections that were around during the Victorian era. My main focus for my Miss Havisham design was to represent Miss Havishams poor personal hygiene. I chose my final hair style for Miss Haviaham as an up do as I thought it was appropriate for a bridal hair style of the Victorian era.

For the continuity assessment I found it very difficult to try and recreate my Miss Havisham design exactly the same as the first time. This is something that I will need to work on for working in the industry.

While designing my Estella I felt a lot more inspired and excited about this part of the project. I wanted to create a more contemporary look for Estella that still had reference to the Victorian era as well as Estella’s evil characteristics. I loved how I could develop the reference from the BBC3 Great Expectations series – butterflies.

When it came to developing ideas for Claudia and Quentin I began looking at all different types of music videos which had Gothic reference. From the start of this part of the project I knew I wanted to keep a contemporary feel with a high fashion take to the project.

For my Claudia I began looking at gothic reference within the fashion industry. I enjoyed looking at editorial fashion images that have a gothic reference. I found that trendhunter.com was a brilliant website for fining information and inspiration images.

I really enjoyed creating my final hair style for Claudia as the design had a lot of height to it. If I was to recreate this design again I think I would develop the makeup to be more striking and defining of the face. I chose to use the same model for both my Claudia and Quentin as I wanted to show how Quentin was a reflection of Claudia’s crazy imagination.

I was hugely inspired by The Mad Hatter from Time Burtons Alice in Wonderland while I was designing my Quentin. However I developed the idea to have a more gothic reference to it. When I created my final Quentin design on my model I thought that the makeup design didn’t suit my models face as well as I had hoped.

I felt that I rushed creating my final looks for Claudia and Quentin as I left the practical work until last minute, when I was unable to create the final designs that I had imagined in my mind. If I had the chance to recreate my Claudia and Quentin I would also choose a more appropriate model that would fit better to my final designs.