week 13

The show and final look of the wearable structure.

week 12

CLOsE DeTaiL anD sKetch bOOk devElopment.

looking closely at the changes i have made to the structure. and to my sketchbook work showing the development of design and inspiration. looking closely you can see the patch work which has been added and the combination of the two projects that have been taking place in the studio over the weeks. i wanted to combined the two as i knew they would mix well together and bring more to the structure.

week 11

Worinking in my sketch book to find more design based ways of the garment.

dress above by Malouse Bastiaan

Continuing with the wearable structure, now i have come up with an initial silhouette for the structure, today i have been sewing it up on the sewing machine to be worn as it was pined together before. The whole day was mainly in the sewing room sewing the garments body together but at the same time leaving what i thought could do with some editing. i have been researching on how to manipulate the fabric.

WEEK 10

Continuing on the wearable structure and help from all the inspiration i have collected, the real structure begins. i have decided to stick with the fabrics i have been using in previous lesson to finalize my garment. Adding bits and taking away pieces to come up with the right look. these images are just to show what i have been getting up to with exploring the matching additional structure and image to the final garment.

Week 9 Pleats

Todays a day of illness for me and very sad because im missing out on an amazing pleat workshop, but this is me catching up and seeing everyonre elses work to understand how to do the pleating my self.

I took the time to research into pleats and find some creative designers work and i came across these:
The Cabbage chair done by Nendo a designer who has worked alongside issey miayke to come up with pleated paper to create a eco friendly chair.

ALSO-

Pleats-Pleats is a sofa designed by Daniel Hedner from Imaginary Office. Clothed polyurethane foam is woven around a white powder coated steel pipe frame.

This is an interesting way of pleating fabrics.

week 8 BarBican 30 YeARS OF Japanese Fashion

Had NiCe visit to tHe barbican and got some sneaky picture s of designers work that inspired me. there were many amazing pieces, loved to see issey miyakes work in person but the two name which stuck with me were Junya Watanabe and rei Kawaubo.
Work by Junya Watanabe a japanese designer who worked for Comme des Garçons for eight years designs mens and women's wear till this very day, has a most intriguing mind when it come to fashion creating what only can come to his creative explanation of fashion. i find he goes in depth with his work.

Jun Takahashi is the designer of the black patch work dress another interesting piece to the eye.

The designs blow by Rei kawakubo were the main inspiration to my work got me thinking about the fit to the body and also about the patchwork in the wearable structure.

week 7

Looking close at the major detail of the structure instead of the whole silhouette today.




playing with the silhouette to see what best results come from it. still not wquite what im looking for a bit of a mess on the stand, too much of the same colored fabric hides the folds.

Working back on the chair and looking closely at detail and the silhouette of the wearable structure. draping the fabric works really well with this particular fabric making interesting fold lines.