Sunday 8 July 2012

Volvo Ocean Race Update

During the last week the Volvo Ocean Race concluded in Galway Harbour. It was an enormous success. It was great to get out and about for a few days and evenings. Here's a few photo's I took:

 04th July Fireworks

Taoiseach Enda Kenny meeting Volunteers


I took a walk around the stalls and I have to say I was really impressed with all they had to offer, 
 the jewellery and accessories stalls particularly caught my eye.




These next few photo's were from my favourite stall, Bombay Banshee from Georges St Arcade Dublin, there were such lovely pieces and colour combinations.






A view of the big wheel!


And now, I know this is well overdue but I managed to get some street-style photo's
(sorry the quality isn't great here, hopefully next time I will have a better camera)

Emma Murphy

 Aoife Farrell

 Donna Hallinan

Colleen Brady


Well that's all I have to report from the VOR, the next major event I will be reporting on will be the Galway Races, hopefully with a new camera and some lovely pics for you. I also will be making one or two new hats for the occasion.

FYI ..... Another feature of TribeStyle-StreetStyle will be on the way soon.....It could be you!

In the meantime, I will be posting some new looks on my lookbook account in the next few days so please keep an eye out for those!


Till next time...stay stylish!

x





Friday 22 June 2012

Turquoise and Violet: Trend or Tradition?

Recently I was asked about one of the latest colour palette trends for Summer; Turquoise and Violet; why is it so popular? Why are we drawn to it, is there a particular reason for this?

So it got me thinking, how did this palette evolve, as I am sure there was a time when we all would have frowned on the combination, but why? I thought about it and perhaps it would have been that they were too similar. I became intrigued as I never would have given it a second thought before.

I am guessing by now most of us are no strangers to recent trends like colour blocking, or using a contrasting colour pop like an orange belt on a blue dress, or the whimsical art of print clashing and the most recent tropical storm of Miami Prints (Primark have done this one extremely well haven't they?)

I began to think that somewhere in this mix emerged our new colour palette of the season. So I did a bit of research, and to paraphrase Jennifer Aniston  "Here comes the science!".....

A foundation in colour

From the colour wheel we see the obvious harmony with blue as the primary colour and purple it's secondary. But we are also mixing different tones together, blue is obviously a cool colour but when mixed with red it becomes purple, a much warmer colour.

Here is another colour wheel I found with the correct colour names of the secondary colours. Maybe they probably sound familiar to you already? I couldn't help but think of replacing my ink-printer cartridges when I saw Cyan and Majenta. But now that I look at them again I am getting a cocktail on the beach vibe ...Sigh!





Sticking with technology, I can't tell you how much I always enjoy picking out a font colour from a computer programmes illustrated spectrum of colour. I think it is a perfect example of harmony for many different colour palettes.

Here is an example of a colour spectrum wheel.


Nature's Grand Design

My next idea was to look for elements of Turquoise and Violet in nature. We know that nature's colour schemes can inspire us all, particularly in fashion, so I did a bit of brain-storming which lead to a bit of googling and I came up with a few examples:

Flowers


  Birds

Marine Life

All of these lead me to think that nature planned these colours to get notice, perhaps using the lighter blue tone to accent the purple and make it more visible. So flowers need to stand out for cross-pollination and birds feathers must be vibrant and colourful to attract the opposite sex (FYI David Attenborough's Birds of Paradise documentary is well worth a watch).

In the case of marine-life pictures I was brought back to the movie The Abyss; which is visually an iridescent and etheral masterpiece. Life in the deep is dark, and although these puirple and blue tones are complimentary to that envirnment they can also become luminous and iridescent creating visiblilty perhaps for reproductive and predatory reasons.


Celestial Vibes


Aurora Borealis, or the Northen Lights, creates an ethereal colour spectrum that mystifies and inspires us to this day. The above image shows us amazing tones of Turquois and Violet, but there can be many different colour combinations.

Jewel Tone Echoes
Finally, I thought about the richness and vibrancy in jewellery stones and how different colour stones work well together throughout the ages. Here are some examples of antique jewellery pieces that will show how Turquoise and Amethyst, as it is known, have always been complimentary companions.

1960s Pearl Drop Earrings



Navajo Indian Jewellery

This fantastic jewelled bib necklace belonged to Wallis Simpson



So in retrospect we may not have always considered it likely to pair these two colours together, but luckily Nature has made it so we couldn't help but be drawn in by their beauty.



Hope you enjoyed this little piece, any thoughts?
x












Friday 8 June 2012

Hey everyone,

So as it's my last day of work placement I am really looking forward to having a bit more time to focus on this blog and other projects. Galway should be buzzing this year with the Volvo Ocean Race final as well as our usual summer staples such as Galway Races and not to mention the Arts Festival. Lets hope the weather picks up a bit!

Anyways, I got a text last week from Orla Moore, Fashion Tutor in GTI, telling me that her stepson Jordan Edmnds Moore, a student in Limerick School of Art & Design, has won the Triumph Inspiration Award for Ireland. I was already familiar with the competition having seeing clips of it on Xpose, it's very innovative and a great platform for any aspiring designer, so I decided to have a look ... and here is his winning design.





Jordan's futuristic design "The Rorschach Test" is based on the psychological inkblot test. His interpretation of this into lingerie is pretty amazing don't you think? It won't be long before Lady GaGa is wearing this!



Jordan at the award ceremony with Irish model Sarah Morrissey

Jordan will represent Ireland against 30 other national winners in the finals in Shangai later this year.
The theme for the competition is ‘Dragons and Butterflies’ which was selected in honour of the location for the final.

Good Luck Jordan!

Tuesday 5 June 2012

Hi All,

Just saw this video from Xpose featuring the Glamour at the G event recently. It is great to see all the amazing millinery talent coming out of Galway right now!

http://www.tv3.ie/videos.php?video=48764&locID=1.65.68&date=2012-05-18&date_mode=&page=4&show_cal=&newspanel=&showspanel=&web_only=&full_episodes=

Have you a favourite piece?

Wednesday 30 May 2012

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the long delay with this post, have been a busy bee! I am trying to get myself a new job; at the moment I am working on placement at the Green Room in Sligo, but I only have two weeks left and then I am hoping to go home to Galway. So, as you can imagine my time is caught up with job hunting, interviews, travelling between the two locations and I am also doing a course one day a week in Supervisory Management thanks to Galway Executive Skillnet; I really can't praise them enough!

Also, I was attending my friend Nicola's wedding last weekend and I had a fantastic time, here's a picture of my outfit.

I'm wearing a lime silk satin dress by Almost Famous London
which I got from the Green Room, RRP €190

I initally wanted a print version of the dress but it did not suit me half as much, the lime really works with my colouring. I have had lots of fun selling this particular dress intsore as it gives me an opportuinity to style, get the bag, the shoes and most importantly the hat to match. Each time I have done this the complete outfit has been sold, hat, bag and all! We even had to order more hats to match this dress from our local milliner.

Speaking of hats, this one is designed by me!

Can you see the spider on it? 
What do you think?

I think lime /black hats were definitely trending on the day!



My necklace and the shoes were from Penneys and the bag is my own (I got it in Dunnes about 2 years ago). FYI my shoes were very comfortable, even though they look pretty lethal!

Speaking of which, would you like to see the Brides awesome shoes?



I think she may have eclipsed me here!



Studded Shoes: River Island 


Anyway, that is my update about the wedding. I hope you enjoyed it.

I will be doing another wedding look update in September as I will be going to my friend Errols BIG GAY WEDDING in Castle Leslie, it should be great!

In the meantime I hope to do some more polyvore styling looks and who knows, I may even get to do a styling photoshoot if we have some good weather again. Fingers Crossed.

Take care and I hope you enjoy the bank holiday weekend!

X

Sharon

Sunday 6 May 2012

My First Post - Welcome to TribeStyle!

Hi There,

I just thought I would give you all a little bit of information about myself so you can get to understand the person behind TribeStyle.
My name is Sharon Flynn, I am a Fashion Industry Practice Graduate from GTI in Galway. I found this to be a great course, but like a everything else in life there is nothing like the real world experience to give you a more thorough and enlightened education.
I am passionate about fashion but I wouldn't say I am a slave to fashion. I believe that fashion should be fun, and you should never take yourself too seriously.
This blog has been in my mind for well over a year now, and now that I am winding down some other projects at the moment I have made a finally made a commitment to TribeStyle and I will give it all the attention it deserves.
So I will be out and about in Galway over the summer taking some snaps (another hobby of mine!) as well as reporting to you on what is trending, local and beyond! It could be fashion, it could be art, it could be ..... anything. Best of all, it could be YOU!
But for now I am adding a bit of my college portfolio so maybe you will get to understand a bit more about me. I hope you like it.






All Dolled Up

 This is a styling shoot, my friend Elizabeth is the model, she really is a living doll, just look at her porcelain complexion!
The photographer is the very talented Sean McCormack, check out his website


Visor-Vision

This is my recycled garment (modelled by Niamh) which I made from sun-visor hats. I managed to sew them all together as luckily they were made with material and not plastic, so it was of pretty sound construction thankfully. I was inspired by structures such as the Sydney Opera House, modern suspension bridges and the futuristic aesthetic of the remake of the movie TRON. 


This is me posing in my mini styling shoot, located at the Glenlo Abbey Hotel, where I am on a carriage of the Orient Express! I took inspiration from the 1940s and created a scene where this woman has to leave home for some mysterious reason .... I never figured out what it was though!
 Any guesses?


This is my Ikea window display. I basically created a room that was flipped it on its side, the only props falling due to the gravity are the flowers and the magazines. I made all props by hand, this was a compulsory element to the display module in the course as it helps me to get full marks. 


Going GaGa!

This is an upcycled body stocking customised with beaded/studded bib necklaces, both from Primark, and it is modelled by my beautiful cousin Colleen. I used the bibs to emphasise the contours of the body shape. I was inspired by Lady GaGa, but you probably knew that already!
This is a print shot of it being featured in the Galway Advertiser, it's great to get a high quality pic of your work ... as well as the free publicity itself!


So, that's a snippet of my college work, what do you think? 

Sharon
x