Brand development
Photography
Digital Content Creation
Layout Design
Photo Treatment
Illustration
Ideate and conceptualize a contemporary clothing brand complete with brand identity, digital marketing materials, and social media.
I created a (hypothetical) knitwear brand inspired by the Fauvist art movement of the early twentieth century. Fauve Knitwear is a brand focused on unapologetic expression and boldness through bright colors, unique silhouettes, and care-free energy.
I wanted to create a project that incorporated my love for both art history and retail. Fauve is a sophisticated and elegant brand that calls upon the principles of one of my favorite art movements: Fauvism. At their first exhibition during the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain showcased their bold new style, breaking away from Impressionism with vivid colors and sweeping brush strokes. The art critic, Louis Vauxcelles, jokingly called them "Fauves" which means wild beasts in French. The artists liked the name and adopted it for their new way of art-making. The unapologetic desire for expression through form is what inspires me most about this movement and what I focused on channeling with this brand identity project. The bright colored knits and French-summer-inspired imagery of Fauve Knitwear imitates the philosophy and way of life that Matisse and Derain emulated in their work.
