Colours of London

Even though my dissertation focuses on boutiques in the sixties, I think my collection will be based more on London in general - particularly elements of London's streets - the brightly painted front doors, black wrought iron fences, flower boxes against white walls, red post boxes... I have to be really careful not to be too clichéd, though! For this reason I'm trying to avoid anything you might find on a keyring in a souvenir shop - double decker buses, black cabs, red phonebooths... you get the picture.

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What I love most about these images is that it's so easy to see a strong colour palette coming through already. The next challenge is to find a way to work with red, white and blue that hasn't been seen a million times before... I'll definitely use touches of grey and black to make it more 'London' (for some reason when I think of London, I think of glossy black paint), and I might even experiment with including dark green.