Fashion Collage 

 

Fashion collaging is a way to express ourselves and it can be used as a therapeutic, healing, tool. They are inspiring, and they inspire the individual. The fashion collage types I am currently creating are a little bit abstract, meaning, you may not think it is about fashion. They represent fashion aesthetics. 

The fashion collages I am making are more of whats the inspiration behind a fashion collection would be, too. The theme is Magical. We need more magical-themed fashion collections.

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Fashion collage-making as a part of fashion journaling:

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I started making fashion collages when I was 15. I would cut out clippings from fashion magazines, and I would have different themes for the boards based on the fashion magazine clipping I found and liked. This is one form of fashion collage and the most popular fashion collage type to make.

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For every fashion professional, and for those who make fashion a serious hobby-- fashion collage-making is an important tool. They promote new fashion ideas. As a healing tool, the process of making collages is a healthy activity. It is a creative tool. It supports people’s ideas and creates new ideas for the maker and others. 

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The collage-making process is therapeutic because they help us clarify who we are, by the types of collages we create. They also express how we feel, and what our interests are.​

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Fashion collages include:

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Moodboards > photos, images, color swatches, clippings, sketches, text, and graphic design. These design elements create the overall theme of the collage. Moodboards support people both professionally, and personally. 

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Presentation boards > A fashion collage can also be designed and created more technically. This is for the purposes of using collage professionally as a way to sell something or inspire people. For example, trend forecasters and fashion designers use fashion collages as presentation boards. 

 

Why make a fashion collage?

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• They are easy and fun to make 

• They support soul/spirit retrieval when one is feeling ‘lost’ or emotionally negative 

• They support confidence and self-esteem, we often can forget who we are, and when we make fashion collages we visually see part of ourselves indirectly, and this makes us feel better about ourselves.

• By combining words and pictures, we become storytellers, as these design elements can help us tell a story.

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Check out my gallery of magical-themed aesthetic fashion collages below: