Final Garment Design

My final garment design photographed.

I particularly like this image as I feel the expression my model is portraying really gets the audience thinking into the image. I feel the way in which I have styled this image really adds to the image from the boots to the dark red lipstick.

I love the geometric shapes that have been formed from my extraction of fabric from a chair, the way in which the garment has  come together has happily surprised me, however I feel I could have focused more on perfecting my design.

I wanted to achieve images that were quite bland in colour to create a military feel, I love the contrast that the military green has against the mutton cloth. I feel all my images could have been improved by a military background, but as I was trying to focus more on the garment and not the setting I believe the images have worked well.

Sandra Backlund

A name who works with fabric to produce knitted garments is Sandra Backlund. In knitwear, Backlund has discovered herself niche turning the garment into surreal art. Her designs are a great inspiration to me with a wide combination of traditional techniques that emerge together. I love the originality to her work which is very extraordinary.

This last image in terms of structure really reminded me of my final garment design which I prodcued from working on a chair. The way in which the 3 dimentional shapes are formed into the dress are really amazing, additionally the way in which this technique has been formed creeats volume to the dress.

Garment Design

For my final design I wasn't quite sure what approach I wanted to use in relation to the different techniques we had used. I initially thought mutton cloth and paper, but my though began to change and I thought I would incorporate the military jacket with the mutton cloth. Above is an image of the front of my garment and the back piece drying of the chair.

Below are images of my first chair attempt with the mutton cloth. I enjoyed using this technique as their was no knowing what the outcome would be.

Here I have began to experiment with a paper design for my garment, however as I started to think about the durable structure of my garment I thought paper would not be a safe option

 

Front of my garment.

I came across a building which really reminded me of the structure of my dress, additionally I found the achritechture very inspirational.

My second chair design with mutton cloth.

Here I am beginning to incorporate the Military Jacket within my design by attaching the deconstructed jacket to the mutton cloth.

I love the texture here of the cloth, the way in which the fabric has stiffened has given the jacket a very unique appearance.

Here I am experimenting with the back of the garment and seeing what position would work best.

I am now gradually bringing the garment together, my main focus now is to concentrate on the back of the dress and to ensure the garment fits my model comfortably.

I used my friend to get an idea how the garment would look, however I feel the dress appears unflattering. I need to work on bringing the dress in at the waist.

Sketches of my design

Pleating

 From referring to designers such as Junya Watanabe Chau and Jasmin Malik Chau allowed me to get an insight into different designers who love to manipulate materials by pleating it. To introduce the topic we were given the opportunity to hear from understand more about pleating by a pleating company which started in 1925. The machines used today are 100 year old with a very historic background, as pleats during the war were rationed to have 20- 30 pleats per dress.

The company pleats fabric for movies such as Harry Potter, along with shows such as Strictly Come Dancing, and additionally pleat with various fabrics such as silk, organza, polyester  and leather.

This image reminded me of the process in which pleats developed through being a cardboard template were rows and rows of dots are marked down and depending on the type of design you want determines the dots you join up.

Here I have researched designers, love their striking original designs



Fabric sample of pleating that i created using my template.

For the following few images I have demonstrated the fabric samples that the Pleating company had brought in to show us the variety of ways fabric samples can be created. It was fascinating to see how different fabrics worked in different ways when pleated along with the variation of the geometric shapes produced within pleating.

I love the way in which I captured this image as it has alot of dimension and with light shining onto the fabric makes it very eye catching.

 
This reminds me of ripples in the sea, the texture is e3xciting and makes you want to touch the fabric.

This organza fabric is slightly translucent which makes this design very unique and almost reflects a totally different effect.

Here is a cardboard template to produce the pleats, these have to be made exact to ensure the pleats are accurate.

The templates are handmade, and they can take up to 80 hours to make as their can be up to 24,000 individual lines to draw.

Collage of Fabrics

Designer: Issey Miyake

Forrest Jessee