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Innovation to Immitation-Styled By The Algorithim

Bethea Collier

I’m a recent graduate from LCF's Fashion Imaging and Illustration with a strong interest in fashion, social media, and creative trends. Originally from Manchester, I’m passionate about exploring how digital culture shapes personal style, identity, and the way we engage with fashion. My work often looks at how platforms like Instagram and TikTok influence the way trends form and spread, and how this can sometimes blur individuality.

I love working with collage and mixed media as a way of visually communicating ideas and creating layered narratives. My approach is research-led and concept-driven, often combining styling, writing, and design to explore themes around authenticity, digital culture, and self-expression. Alongside my projects, I’ve worked freelance creating social and creative content for a handful of businesses, small to large, allowing me to have hands-on experience in branding, visual storytelling, and digital strategy.

I’m currently looking for opportunities within the creative industries where I can continue to grow, collaborate, and contribute to work that’s culturally aware and visually impactful.

I’m a recent graduate from LCF's Fashion Imaging and Illustration with a strong interest in fashi...

My work explores the loss of individuality and creative autonomy in the age of social media. Through analogue collage, scanned fabrics, and photography, I highlight how trends, aesthetics, and influencer culture have led to visual conformity in fashion. My process involved layering cut-outs, removing identities, and duplicating forms to reflect the concept of ‘cloning’ and the impact of algorithm-led style. The creative outcome is a critical reflection of how self-expression is shaped—and often limited—due to digital influence. My final visuals were also inspired by 60s fashion—a decade known for trend-driven style, mass adoption of looks, and uniformity in youth culture, which connects to today’s extremely exaggerated, yet similar cycle of aesthetic replication and fast-paced trend following.

Final work

  • A collage of stylized images, some made from scanned textures, and others from creative fashion photography.
  • Scanned texture background, with model outlines over lapping, posed dramatically.
  • Blue fabric background, character outline, with added elements such as lips and my hair scanned as texture
  • Mesh background, scanned with a mary quant flower paper, a straight portrait seriosu image of model, with jewelry hanging over her eyes
  • Half cut out collaged face, holding a vintage bag, with a model facial expression, placed on a green silk background
  • Two backgrounds used, with two models abstractly cut merging together from opposite portrait angles
  • Pink Silk Bandana backgrounf, featuring model applying lipgloss, with a minature black and white figure of her added above
  • Mary Quant Wrapping Paper scanned background, layered with a model dressed from inspiration of the 60s
  • White mesh background, featuring model crouched, applying makeup, with parts of her sillohette cut out and moved around.

Research and process

  • Digitail Cut out of my models abstract pose, including a background of photoagraph of mine,
  • model with her legs in the air, her tights have been digitially removed and replaced with a wooly texture, adding a pop of colour on a neutral image
  • Blonde model, wearing a flowy mesh dress and grey blazer, the dress has been cut out and replaced by a denim fabric, adding dimension
  • Edited unrealistic digitial collages, experimenting with monochrome, layering and all round aesthetic
  • Digitial Collage, very experimental, a mixture of model poses, overlapping and cut out
  • A practice digital collage, messing with composition, a practice shot which I liked the outcome,

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Innovation to Immitation-Styled By The Algorithim

My work explores the loss of individuality and creative autonomy in the age of social media. Through analogue collage, scanned fabrics, and photography, I highlight how trends, aesthetics, and influencer culture have led to visual conformity in fashion. My process involved lay...

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