Fashion of the band

This is post is to show the fashion sense of one of our band members in particular, Georgia. She has previously been spotted in Leicester City Centre as being an iconic fashionable teenager by the Leicester Mercury fashion reporters. The article talks about how Georgia's fashion sense is outstanding but this is not due to expensive prices as she mentions more than once about how she shops around for bargains in places such as fashion charity shops, vintage fairs and handmade clothing stores. This is inspiring for our band's image as it shows that not everyone has to be extremely rich in order to keep up with fashion trends. Georgia will be an iconic figure in our band without a doubt, partly due to her being the only girl member of the band but also her fashion sense will be inspirational to teenagers and young adults who listen to this style of music.

Below is a photo taken of her image and article down the side of the Leicester Mercury newspaper back in April 2011.

Band Styling - Steve

We have each chosen a member of the band to style, my chosen member was Steve. I have decided that from the band photo shoots, Will looks best suited to wearing a shirt, Georgia wearing a vest, Steve and Lewis both wearing t-shirts.

As a group we decided that it is conventional of this genre for the members to all wear dark/black jeans except one member, such as in Foals:

 therefore I am going to ask Steve to wear black jeans/his dark jeans he wears and possibly get Georgia to be the person who doesn't wear black/dark trousers.

As part of the photo shoots, we previously asked Steve to wear his black hooded zipped jacket, and we think that this works with the cords tied together either zipped or unzipped.

Also, we prefer Steve to wear a t-shirt, opposed to a shirt as it suits the band better to have a "cheeky" lead singer, therefore less well presented and less formal. We want Steve to have graphics and designs on his t-shirt, but obviously we cannot have them with brands on, so maybe an image or just a design as he does in the picture below:

Some shots also show Steve wearing a hat, and this suits the genre well, so I will keep that as an optional accessory for Steve.

Here are some people that dress similarly to how i wish Steve to look:

Band Styling- Lewis

(Lewis is far right on both images)

Lewis is going to either be our second guitarist or bass player (this depends on what instruments we can acquire at the time of shooting). Like the rest of the males in the band, Lewis' style is quite relaxed, baggy and also full of colour- this colourfulness helps to portray the fun and energy of the band.

What's distinguishable about Lewis' style when compared to the rest of the band members is his array of hats, which funnily enough was unintentional but something we're definitely going to keep. During both photo shoots we asked him to wear black jeans and a coloured t-shirt with a jacket- he turned up in these and a hat, and this then happened again for the second time. So a bobble hat has now been adopted as part of how Lewis dresses and we will continue to use this through out the video.

So for the video shoot, Lewis will be wearing black jeans, like the other male band members, a coloured t-shirt which I would like to be quite plain in design if possible, and a baggy hooded jumper, as well as his infamous bobble hat which will also be full of colour. When it comes to shoes I think Lewis will be wearing either branded trainers or shoes, more than likely Nike.

Ideas of what Lewis could wear in the video shoot:
  


Similar style that we could take inspiration from is The Maccabees lead singer Orlando Weeks:

Band Styling - Georgia

Georgia's fashion style was originally going to be quite girly so that she would stand out but after taking the first lot of photos we decided it looked like 'Georgia and the three boys' rather than a band of four.

This style is shown in the first image below:

So for the second lot of photos we chose to dress her more similar to the boys, this consisted of colours rather than products of clothing. The boys, Steve, Lewis and Will, were all asked to wear dark coloured jeans/trousers and either a t-shirt or flannel shirt with a zip-up jacket over the top of this item. So to match Georgia as close as we could to the collection of boys items, we asked her to wear black denim shorts, black tights and a top of her choice, so she chose a multi-coloured vest with a black PVC style jacket.

This is also shown in the image below:

Both these images and more can be found on my current Flickr account.



For inspiration for styling we looked at many other bands and finally came across someone with a slightly similar fashion sense and style to our only girl band member, Georgia. The artist who we took inspiration from is called Alice Glass, she is part of the duo band Crystal Castles. Her hair cut is short and pristine, as is Georgia's, and her fashion style is not very girly - exactly how we have attempted to make Georgia look. Here are a collection of images that are useful to see how we used Alice Glass to create Georgia's 'look'.