Primary source from book:

Steve Tobin’s Natural History: Blown glass and neon, 1993, exhibition Retretti Art Centre, Punkaharju, Finland, by Steve Tobin.

Secondary source:

Philip Tracey: London fashion week 2012, Spring/Summer Ready to Wear 2013

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2012/sep/17/philip-treacy-london-fashion-week#img-20

V an A fashion archive:

Hats and pins

• Date: 1950s
• Place: London
• Artist/maker: Thaarup, Aage

Reflection:

For the primary source photo I went to the library and just pulled a random book from the 21^st century artists section and ended up with a great book about Steve Tobin’s work. I chose the image I have because I was draw to the contrast between the natural cave setting against neon glass lights. My secondary source I wanted to stick with the neon trend and to start with searched on Pinterest for some images, I came across Philip Tracey and looked more into his work and the guardian did a great spread of his London fashion week collection. I chose the one I did because like the bright colour and like Steve Tobin’s work its almost futuristic like. I knew I wanted to look through the V an A fashion archives because they have one of the best collections. I started with just searching hats and came across the 1950’s classic hat by Aage Thaarup. The colour is bright like the previous sources but I like the contrast between this hat and Tracey’s as it shows how far fashion has come over the last 60 years.