This was a concept made up of crossing Disney Villains with High Fashion, edgy catwalk styling, creating an editorial shoot finish. I also had a tutorial with Carolyne within the first week to discuss these ideas further. Below is my sheet from the tutorial;
We discussed the ideas of looking at pixar animations and recreating the less obvious aspects of disney corporation, such as finding nemo characters or the lion king. Animal based characters are not as commonly adapted as the human more visually relevant characters. Villains give more theoretical scope and was something to consider when choosing my brief, as was fashion designers and the influence of the catwalk. The idea of 'Beauty and the Beast' 's character being formed as a villain surrounded in hair across the face also was discussed and the alternate ideas you can create with hair. The body ideal included in my dissertations is something I could also discuss regarding the catwalk aspect of the project and the continuing theme of the female body ideal.
Upon leaving the tutorial I was able to go away and research the ideas we had discussed. Below are some Pinterest boards created around the Disney villains and character interpretations;
The images I sourced were majority of disney queens/good guys so to speak, however I found that as I delved further into the visual research I found a lot of the executions and concepts of the idea quite 'amateur' or very extravagant with a lot of budget and extreme set design/input and therefore began to agree that Disney probably was not the right path to go down for my final major project as the risk factor was too big, and it also was something that could stand out for the wrong reasons amongst my beauty editorial portfolio.
I also found a link to a Mexican photographers project named 'Villains in Vogue' (see below images) and for me although the execution of the work is again very different to the standard I would be working to, the fact that a concept so similar to the one I had devised already existed, was enough to make me believe the idea was not the right one for the project.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/Villains-In-Vogue/7468615
