Contoured Formation - concept project containing mood/theme/colour/range plan and line up.
Sustainability - for this project we had to come up with a range that was sustainable and produce one piece, i chose a jacket made from scrap leather that could be worn 4 different ways due to having zip off components and using the leathers imperfections as detailing.
Identity Final Piece <3
Final Outcome
The concept behind the shoot is of a single persons identity having no meaning or being able to place someones identity through skin colour, facial features or body type. My final piece consists of the crop style jacket with the main focus on the collar, built up of the 3d pyramids, staying strong with my concept of shape to represent identity.
Theme and Shape Development
After our last group crit i decided to look into the theme of androgony further and move onto the idea of genderless fashion. i also wanted to delve deeper into the identity side, so whilst looking into the history of gender and identity i came across an old chart that was used to identify people during the hollocaust. it used a shape and colour system to to group people such as gyspsy, homosexuals, jewish etc.
I want to take this idea of the triangle shape and mix of colours to influence the overall silohete of my piece, during the hollocaust one single triangle with a colour was used and that became your identity, so i want to play with multiple triangles of different sizes and possible colours to represt more than one identity, not being able to pin point one specifically.
So with this in mind I’m playing around with paper on the stand and getting a feel for how i could do this, looking at focusing on one area such as the shoulder, neck or back.
Group crit session
Todays session consisted of a group critique on the theme and silhouette of where we are going in our research. within this we had to present two boards showing the general idea and then receive feed back from our peers.
some comments received in my feedback:
“sampling more on stands to show my idea of where im heading with shape”
“honing in on a particular area or message within my theme”
“primary sources such as photography, drawing samples etc.”
im going to take these suggestions and move on with my sampling, working more on the stand so i get a more 3D idea of where i want to head and get a feel for my final shape idea. with my theme i think I’m heading down the right path and will perhaps pick out a particular moment in which androgyny had a big impact within society and gender/identity and is society ready for women to be as strong as men??
Thinking about the idea of the garment being unisex…pure androgyny
Metamorphosis of a form
Recently i have been doing a project to produce a “fashion guide” in which i could develop a collection from, we have to pick a theme and develop this, i chose to look at “metamorphosis” and concentrate on the aspect of “shape & form” in the idea of how a butterfly has three stages in which its physical being drastically changes. So not to go down a to literal form of looking at this i just concentrated on how i could translate this into silhouette, colour and pattern. I have now finished the guide and i am moving onto designing from it, watch this space there is much more to come…
