fashion design

In this lesson i started playing around with the tights and glue structures that i had made at home. I played around with it on the mannequin to see what worked and looked best. I tried to get as much detail on the garment, from the different parts of the chair that i had made when glueing it.

These are photos of the working progress:

Once i had played around with the top part of my garment, once i was happy with it, i then though about the bottom half. I knew i wanted to use the deconstrustion process so i decided to use the lineing of a old jacket i had at home.

This lesson we started to think about our final strustures. We had to use one or more of the processes that we had learnt over the last few weeks. I found that i quite liked the out come of the glue and tights process and the deconstrustion process so i chose to use them to create my final structure. To start of i decided that i needed more glue and tight peices to use so at home i use and swivel chair with lots of legs to make it as interesting as possoble and started glueing black and skin colour tights to the chair.

These images show this process:

AT home i continued with the deconstrustion of the jacket and re-sewed it back together in a different way to creat a skirt. The uneven edjes and seams gives it really interesting shapes and plaeating. I was goign to attach it to the top bu then chose not to as it would be different as it was a skirt and top and not a dress.

These are images of my final wearable structure:

I am happy with the way my garment turned out it has encorparated more than one process but is still simple and clear to see what those processes are.

 This lesson we had a guest talker in to talk about pleating. He has his own pleating business and is one of the last few remaining ones in london. He brough in lots and lots of different examples of pleating that he had done over the years. His samples ranged from simpler pleats to really complicated pleats. He also told us what materials were best to use when pleating and that you have to be very precise to get it right.

There were so many different examples and potos that i took i had to pick a select few to show:

Later on in the lesson we had a demonstration on how to pleat this was to give us a chance of our own to have a go at pleating. First we had to draw the lines on brown paper the scor it and fold them in to place. once we had done that to both sheets of brown paper we could place out fabric in the middle and steam it. once it had cooled down we could then take it out and have a look.

These images show the process:

This lesson we were ment to go on a feild tip but due to the tains we couldnt all go together. We were then allowed to go early to go to the gallery or cary on with work at home or in class. I went to the gallery and found the work there really insparational and eye catching. I loved the range of work they had there from the simpler designs to the really complicated ones. I took as many photos as i could from this trip as we weren’t allowed, so i had to be very sneaky about it.

These are just some of the photos that i took :

These images show how i presented it in my sketchbook:

This lesson we had to unpick jackets that we were given. They were a 1940s style, and once we had un picked different parts and sections we had to create a different garment on a chair. I found this quite hard working on a chair but once i got the hang of it it started to form some interesting shapes and forms.

Before we started playing around with the jackets we spent a lot of time taking photos of the different elements on how the jacket was designed and made. I also looked at things that looked a lot harder to make such as the pockets and the buttoning of the jacket on the front.

when unpicking the jackets it took quite a bit of time because they were made to with stand heavy wear, once i had unpicked all the parts i wanted to i could then start laying them put and placing them together on the chair which then started to create a form. 

once i had reached the point where i was happy with what i had done on the chair and used and attached all the parts that i wanted to i took it of and then started playing around and manipulating it on the mannequin.

In these photos below you can see that when playing around with it on the mannequin the dress took a proper from but still had interesting shapes from the chair that you wouldn’t get just on the mannequin.

This week most of the class cut off there dryed work from there chairs but as i did this last week, played around with it and recorded it i decided to make another one. My partner and I chose a different chair this week as we though it would give us more interesting shapes we also chose not to use the muttern cloth this week as the tights worked so well last week. 

To begin we stared out the same way by covering the chair with cling film and then wrapping and pinning the tights around the chair and trying not to just cover the chair by leaving negative space. I think this exsperiment worked better this week as i was more interesting when i took it of the mannequin.

These photos show the second experimentation with just tights:

These images show how i played around with it on the mannequin :

This lesson was a lot different to any thing i had done before, i really enjoyed it and found it really fun. It was quite a creative and hands on lesson. I decided to work with both tights and muttern cloth as i have never done this before i didn’t know which one would work best.

To start of i chose a tall chair and covered it in cling film and added extra bit in different areas to give it some bulk and different shapes. I used the cling film box on top of the chair and a toilet roll to give it some interesting out comes when it dry’s. These are some images to show this : 

Once the chair was covered i started stretching the muttern cloth and tights over the chair. I used different colour tights and different size of muttern cloth to make it more interesting when it dryed. When trying to get it to all stick together the glue wasn’t drying fast enough, so i used pins  to hold the parts in place which when it dryed gave it some interesting and strong edges. 

These images show the muttern cloth and tights on the chair : 

Once attaching it all together, i dryed it using a hair dryer, this speeded up the drying process so that i could cut it of the chair and start playing around with it on the mannequin. 

These are some of the different looks that i played around with on the mannequin: 

I am really happy with the result and feel that i have learned a lot from this this experiment and task. I am really going to use what i did this week to help me improve for next weeks lesson and work out what worked best for me and what i might leave out. 

Next week i have decided that im going to use just tights and not cover the chair as much by passing the tights through and creating negative space.

In this lesson we continued with paper folding but on a much larger scale. I used my design from last week and improved it, then copied the design on a large piece of paper to create a large sculpture to play around with and place on the mannequin. I though this was a good way to give us inspiration and different ideas. 

These images show the rule i used for my large scale sculpture :

I then started playing around folding it in to different shapes and ways. This was interesting because every time i folded another bit or moved and stuck a bit in to place the sculpture would just keep changing and would form lots of different shaped. I did think that my design would come out much bigger then it did but if i was to do it again i would make it twice the size. 

The final out come : 

I then started playing around with other different shapes and ways of folding so that i could add it to my original sculpture to improve it. I then started folding some paper in the sam way that you would fold a paper fan and created this shape :

I really enjoyed my first lesson, it gave me an idea on how the rest of our lessons would be and i was quite excited by that. I had never done paper folding before so this was new to me, i found it really interesting and i was happy with my results. It was interesting to see how my 2D workings using the rule could be turned in to a 3D sculpture and could be manipulated in lots of different ways to create a different sculpture.

These are some images of the different sculptures that came out of my 2D work :