Harriette Tebutt (The Duchess)

This is Harriette Tebutt, an illustrator who attends Camberwell College and is our collaborator for this zine. Her images are the inspiration for our style as they portray every essence of a feminine and delicate taste; an ethos to which we want our zine to evolve around and her images will be featured throughout the issue.




Every issue of the zine will collaborate with an up and coming, yet to be discovered, creative talent. Drawers will take any existing nicknames they have or create one, and the nickname will be the title of that issue. The first month’s issue will be called ‘The Duchess’ - After illustrator Harriette Tebbutt. I came across her blog by chance, by clicking next on blogspot. With less than 10 followers but hundreds of little illustrations posted, Harriette is a creative talent that Drawers zine would be proud to help showcase.
Her drawings have a distinct style, and after meeting her for a coffee it was clear that her prim and proper nature was as unusual as her drawing style. She is a second year at Camberwell College of Arts, she draws constantly and as she waited for me to arrive she had already doodled half the people in the coffee shop. When we agreed to meet it was to get an interview for an article on her illustrations and to have a look through some of her work. When looking through the pages of her portfolio I found photographs of two sets of underwear which she had decorated. They were perfect and she was instantly matched for a collaboration with drawers.
The first zine will be fully illustrated by her. There will be a photo shoot of the doodle undies and the interview I carried out will be included too.

The Duchess

This is the ultimate feminine style that first gave us inspiration for our zine. We are still in the process of brainstorming whether our first issue should be called 'Issue one: The Duchess' This is due to us wanting our zine to be seen in a niche market where it is to attract a feminist audience in an elitest society. However, we are changing are minds again and this time using our collaboration illustrator Harriette as 'The Duchess.' This is purely because of her talents, age and we feel she can relate to our target consumer; a student with class who appreciates and adores lingerie.

Freya

Freya is an underwear label that I personally adore, not only do they cater for big breasted ladies (about time) but I feel their advertisements are so playful and fun, it just brings out the innocent and harmless side of lingerie - while every other brand tries too hard to make it look sexy and an image that men would adore!! People are forgetting that underwear should make the woman feel amazing first and if the man likes it - good, but if not - who cares?! (to be honest, its going to be thrown on the bedroom floor within two seconds anyway!!)

Personal matters...

Doesn't everyone? This image is just to show explicit phrases and private matters distributed in a different way. Personally I find it very comical (especially the face of the blonde haired woman!!)

Every girl should have one of these...

One book that we feel every girl should read (and also prepare herself for full on filth) is 'girl with a one track mind.' It started from a blogger who shared her experiences online and then turned it into an award winning novel. Your not wrong in thinking that the books main ethos is about a woman and her sexual adventures with many different men, after all an erotic story tickles the majority of peoples fancy, no? My advice, dont knock it till you've tried it..

The aesthetics of our zine

We have started to think about the look of our zine, what we want to say from the visuals and how we are going to do it. We have a clear decision which is to create a creative and delicate artisitc approach, these images that have been found reflect this some what.








This image is a perfect example of the type of image that we would want to place on the front cover of our zine. The hand drawn artistic approach is something that we want to become part of our brand handwriting. we dont want the reade rto get distracted by the glossy and busy front cover, thats not what a zine is not about. The idea is to have the master head and a simple hand drawn image of a pair of knicjers or a underwear set. nothing else but those two elements.

Meeting minutes from this week so far

23rd April (Friday)

11 - 12.30 am. Location: Bonnington

All of us present.

* Discussed what was to be done at the weekend.

* carry on with individual research

* upload a couple of items onto the research blog each day

* Start looking at magazines for layout inspiration


26th April (Monday)


10.30 - 12 pm. Location: Bonnington

All of us present.

* discussed progress so far


27th April (Tuesday)

11 - 12.30 pm. Location: Bonnington

* Read through the interview with Susie King, our ballet dancer article.

* Responded to emails and applied for permission to used various images. Awaiting reply.

* Updated blog.



28th April (Wednesday)

11.30 - 4.00. Location: Hannahs House

All of us present.


* Updated the blog

* Started to write individual articles


29th April (Thursday)

11.00 - 12.30. Location: Bonnington

Danielle and Emma.

* Updated blog

* Carried on with article research

Inspirational images

Dont you just love it when inspiration comes from anywhere and everywhere......here are a few that caught my eye...

Free people

We absolutely love their brand handwriting. The collage effect created with soft tones and a very hand made approach.

Kinky...

I know that this image may be a little too sexual for some, but we just absolutely adore it! It's just very delicately shown in a subtle manner. Definately an inspiration starter for our magazine.

who shares our love for beautiful lingerie

Lingerie is a girly essential and an ultimate luxury. Blogs that we have found, reflect this with feminine and pretty approaches.

Boudiche: It is a exquisite designer lingerie brand with a couple of boutiques found in Glasgow and Edinburgh. They run a blog that keeps people informed as to what is happening in the business.



Frou Frou fashionista: Again, this is another luxury lingerie blog. This blog is elegant and the ultimate feminine showing its readers delicate under garments from around the world.




The lingerie post: a blog that is updated daily to give information on brands and designers and their new collections and emerging trends that come on to the scene.




Petite Croquette: Gives you up to date information on everything lingerie; websites to visit, the latest collections and where to buy and get the best bargains. This is definatly our favourite blog that we have found, so delicate and girly.

Natasha Law

Natasha Law is an artist trained at Camberwell College and is renowned for using household paints to create predominantly erotic images. She has also illustrated books including Camilla Morton's How to Walk in High Heels: the Girl's Guide to Everything.

We have decided to include her within our zine as we wanted to explore various elements of underwear and how they are used in everyday life, so this time we are focusing on the arts.

The Ballet Dancer..

Within the zine we have decided to talk about the aspects of underwear in everyday life, and one aspect that we all agreed should be included is underwear in the form on dance. So we have conducted an interview with a female principle dancer from the London Royal Ballet company, to discuss views on the costumes and what life is like as a dancer, also not forgetting details on the flattering underwear that must be worn during perfomances.

What is out there

The market we want to launch our zine into is very limited in terms of similar content. It is mainly blogs that interest and excite us.

However, these are publications that are considered most prominant such as:

The Lingerie Buyer; the industry's leading publication. It is the first place you would look for inspiration and up to date information.


Underlines is produced five times a year, roughly 6,000 copies per issue; a UK based publication which presents reports and forecasts on swimwear for the industry professionals.



Lingerie Styling; online and print version which is free in selected stores. It provides tips about your lingerie wardrobe from professionals.



Nude Amibition ; a rauncy magazine aimed at the older female market with a seductive and erotic nature.

“It may not be something that you see as obvious on the red carpet but lingerie is something that is very close to every woman.”

-Sara Tervo
(P.R director, Victoria Secrets)

Why we are doing a zine based on lingerie.

As women, we know how lingerie plays a large part in our life style

Sharing our interests and thoughts with others shouldn’t come at a high price

Expressing intellectually equal content to a monthly high fashion magazine

Our font for the master head of Drawers

We brainstormed a lot of possibilities on how we could promote our key messages and draw in our desired reader.



Lingerie zine with a twist

Feminine niche

Aimed at women in their late teens to mid twenties

Delicately sexy tone of voice

Innocence

Women who appreciate all things beautiful whilst in need of feeding their seductive curiosity

Meeting Minutes

22nd April(Thursday)

10- 10.30 and 11.30 - 3.30

Danielle and Emma present. Location: Bonningtion

* Started up research blog.
* Completed consumer pen profile for the drawers zine.
* Discussed what elements of the portfolio and magazine project that needed doing before the deadline.
* Reviewed the presentation powerpoint.
* Finished few elements from the portfolio requirements.

Consumer profile

We have identified who our ideal reader would be!

Meeting Minutes from the last three days

19th April (Monday)

11am - 2.30
All of us present. Location: Bonnington.

* Discussed ideas - where we want to be, what we want to do, how we are going to do it.

* Brainstormed potential names for the zine and finalized.

* Ideas for photoshoots

* Discussed content - potential sections within in the zine

* Started of thinking of ways to promote the zine - low budget is key


20th April (Tuesday)

11 am - 12.30 and 1.15 - 3pm
All of us present. Location: Bonnington.

* Discussed potential illustrators, artists, photographers.

* Brainstormed our interests - Fashion, The arts and Culture. potential articles could write.

* Contacted Illustrator.

* Work for next meeting : Everyone to design a logo for the title, independant research into areas that are fopund interesting. Researching blogs that we can start to follow.


21st April (Wednesday)

1pm - 6pm

All of us present. Location: Hannah's house

* Created powerpoint so it is ready for presentation in a couple of weeks.

* Researched illustrator and looked at her work. Gave her some requests for some illustrations.