January's critical journal entries were extremely culture-orientated as I visited a number of exhibitions in my spare time over the Christmas holidays, which consisted of Helmut Lang's Archives at the Vienna MAK Museum of Contemporary Art, The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined at the Barbican Centre and the M&S Archives at the University of Leeds.
I always enjoy visiting exhibitions, no matter whether they're fashion-centric or otherwise, but the most memorable are always the ones to offer unusual perspectives and give me a fresh insight into a topic I previously thought couldn't be explored in a new way. For example, the Helmut Lang Archives were incredibly interactive and I was impressed by the integration of digital aspects with traditional museum-like glass cabinets and displays. At The Vulgar, I was immersed into an amazing space which left me with a lot to consider and I was so glad to have visited it for the sake of making mental connections between what I had covered in my Typography assignment and what I saw in front of me. The M&S Archives were very insightful and invaluable in offering me some really strong primary research for my Fashion Writing and the Industry module.
I also began to document my 'Weekly Round-Ups' this month, which I was inspired to do once I had seen how reflective we were expected to be on our group assignments this term. I hope to be able to look back and reflect on my progress week-by-week, so that by the end of this term I can see the connections in all of my hard work and see clearly the organic way in which my final assignments were created.
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