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Whilst feeling inspired by Peter Gatien I cannot help but be inspired from his memorable eye patch. I know he wore his eye patch due to a hockey accident. However he coul of had a glass eye or other procedures that would make this less obvious. The accident gave him compensation money, frm which he began his buisness ventures. His eye patch shows strength. That he has been through a traumatic experience but has come out stronger. It shows he is not to be messed with. It not only is visually captivating but it also makes him look rather wealthy. Shows his status his power.

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 Like pirates are on always scouting for treasure, could his eye patch be connotationing that his club empire is his treasure? He is always looking for ways to make money? Or even addicted to money? Whether it legally or illegally. Pirates is where the eye patch originated from. they wore them to help their eye conditions from going from light to dark.

Eye patches in film & TV.

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 Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) Kill Bill. The reasoning behind the eye patch was due to disrespecting her martial arts teacher therefore resulted in having her eye plucked out.

 Lilly Charles-Pushing Dasies In this film she is seen wearing a vajazzled eye patch due to an accident where she was cleaning her cats litter tray. So this story has a commicalelement to it.















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Tom Cruise is seen wearing an eye patch due to an injury from World War II. Where not only did he loose his eye but also lost his right hand and two fingers on his left hand. So he lost this due to injury. It also shows he has a past, why was he fighting? Shows his strength to of survived a battle and will survive again?













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Angelina Jolie in Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow. I have been searching online and in articles the reason i unknown. Other tahn it makes her look mysterious and stern and of course makes us question her past, making her a strong character.

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Even if we can’t know exactly what happened to Rooster’s eye, an educated guess is that it was removed after a Minié ball, shrapnel or some other projectile, hit him either directly in the eye or near it.

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Eyepatches in club & Pop culture.

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 Pete first began to wear an eyepatch after he had some surgery on his nose which resulted in bruising around his left eye. It made such a statement he continued wearing it as a fashion statement. It made him differnt.

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These images are t show how eye patches were worn in the 80's club culture. Neither of these are blind however David Bowie did have two different eye colours making him look intruiging. The eye patces to me are a statment piece. It automatically draws attention to their revealed and and lips. 

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Here are some images of 2000's celebrities sporting the one-eyed look. Not only is the look strong and rather intimidating it could also be referencing something that our money-obsessed society seem to be rather obsessed with. The illuminati, sound familiar? Have you noticed that infact all of the celebrities sporting this look are major music artists.Are these images referencing the illuminati? Resulting in power.

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This is a video I found extremely interesting. When wanting to communicate power I can use this a concept theory.

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Here are a few images that I found inspiring from fashion and editorials shows. Of what I have noticed is in every image the face looks so strong I love it. Its such a strong statement of power. How is this contemparary? Our society is money obsessed we are obsessed with power. It shows importance. This is what I want to develop into a design whether I will use the patch or not I am not sure about I will look at other ways perhaps a more modern way to get across todays ideologies.

Here is a awful sketch I did of a neutral basic eye with a dark lip and a eye patch. Also a dark red lip.

Gangsters.

When thinking of the emcee in a historical context he would of not been seen as a gangster or pimp. But going back and scrutinising what he does he is in my eyes. The historical gangster or pimp would of been well dressed and groomed.

In fact gangsters of the time were unsupsected. They were well liked by people and were extremely charming, and of course intelligent. This was of course a front, behind closed doors there was extreme violence and meaningful threats. If the money was not being made there was hell to pay for.  John Dillinger was the perfect gangster of the time until he was caught. He successfully robbed banks, and committed rumored murder.(Girardin, G. Russell and William J. Helmer. Dillinger: The Untold Story (Expanded Edition). Indiana University Press. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2009.) 

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Do you see the links I am making? The body language the smug, yet friendly, yet stern look on the face the arrogant hand gesture. The well groomed look everything screams gangster to me.

Gangster/pimp look in club & pop culture.

In these images I can see clear links to the gangster/pimp sort of look. What defines this look to me? Well historically being well groomed. The top hat adding an emcee element to it. From these images I can see the designer has played around to dumb down the look possibly. I love how all of the poses are very serious and tall. This is an element I can apply to my character.

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This image is inspired by leigh Bowery of which I thought was almost obvious to see.

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Although the suit and being well groomed was very much a gangster/pimp element to that era. In our era I instantly associate gangsters/pimps with grillz. How I can show my character's characteristics. Something that would like to show my gangster element to my chareter is Grillz.

The history of Grillz.
Grillz supposedly arose from the years of black slavery. Where if the slaves teeth were decaying their matsers would often replace their teeth with gold fillings or teeth. But this was only to their most loyal, strongest salves. Showing they were of value to their master in comparision to other slaves. It showed you were important and not to be messed with. It also helped define their identity against other slaves. they would often bare their teeth to show their superiority.

As you can see now grillz are very much adorned and worn by the most powerful. Whom? the music culture. Mainly used in music videos of the urban genre when mentioning pimping, being a gangster or money.

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As you can see it is mainly females wearing grillz these days. That had me thinking female empowerment has really developed over these past years. Women are on top of the music sales, fashion. Some women in the industry can be seen as being extremely intimidating and powerful above are just some of the people that do not want to be messed with in their industry field.

Cholas.

Cholas are typically of mexican origin. It is referred to as a style but it is also known for women being in gangs. Murdering others. The typical chola makeup and hair I feel is very 20's inspired.

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They have the 30s features such as the thin drawn on brows, the high eyeshadow. 

They are often featured n popular culture.

A popular element as shown in the exaggerated version in Vogue Italia, is the teardrop tattoo. I like this as it shows there is symbolism the look a meaning behind the tattoo.

"Made famous by Johnny Depp's character in the movie Crybaby. It is a tattoo of a teardrop below one's eye on either side. Originally placed in prison to signify that the bearer was owned by a fellow prisoner. In prison terms "there bitch." The tear drop signifies that pain and humiliation one would feel after being "turned out" in prison. The tattoo is placed on the face to further humiliate the victim and mark them in a place where they could not cover the mark.

Confusion about it's meaning has come from the victim's having to explain the tattoo when they get out of prison and have to explain it to family and loved one's. They would often state that they got the tattoo because they killed a man in prison. This statement was not far from the truth since their submissive act of becoming another man's "bitch" could easily be viewed as the death of their manhood."

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Kiss curls are also worn by Cholas which is again a major 30s trend. I love how it has been incorporated into a "ghetto" style from a classic look of the 30's era. Cholas are als drognyous. In the way they dress and do their hair like my character.