Fashion and Textiles

Despite not wanting to do fashion as a pathway, and not expecting to enjoy it, I ended up finding it one of my favourite weeks so far. This was because I thought it was taught really well and we where allowed to be continuously making things and getting very involved. The week entailed lots of 'hands on' tasks. The first day we were just asked to make simple shapes and then repeat the simplest pattern we had come up with in order to then fashion clothing for manikins. On the second day we then started to design outfits by sticking bits of paper or drawing over models from magazines. On our last day we then actually fashioned a garment of our choice.

Day 1

Authors own: Shape design

This was the simple shape design I made on the first day. This was simply done by me folding over a piece of paper and then cutting certain parts out in order to create a symmetrical design.

Authors own: Manikin

Day 2

Once we had designed and made our cuttings or 3D sculptures we were put into groups of 3 where we were then asked to stick on the items we had make in a thought provoking way. This was done by Andrea saying specific words such as 'sexy' in order to create different styled garments. Doing this allowed us to think about where on the body certain things can be put in order to get a certain type of response by whoever is viewing it.

Authors own: 2D Clothing design

Here I tried to make the outfit for the model as vibrant and geometric as possible. I kept repeating shape designs. In this image I like the way in which there are contrasts between colour. However for the top half I like it would have looked better had a made the garment more fitting to the body.

Authors own: Head wear

For this part of the fashion and textiles course we get to be very experimental with what kind of medium we used. I used pen, paper, and colour in order to create 2D and 3D garments. Some of the pieces I made here I found too abstract. However the course leaders who took us seemed to think here the more experimental we were with our designs the better. Maybe I was too conserved with this part of the course and should have been more careless when it came to trying to design something with resemblance. 

Day 3

Authors own: Hat 1

This was my favourite part of the course as we were given the instruction to make whatever we wanted as long as it was a garment which could be worn and modelled. I chose to make a cap using simply paper and card. At first I had the idea of using more mediums but unfortunately ran out of time so could not finish the hat exactly how I originally imagined it. I was going to add small spikes all over the hat. However I am happy with how the hat eventually turned out.

Authors own: Hat 2

As can be noticed from both pictures of the hat here and from most of the work I did this week I like to work in a geometric style. Combing abstraction with regular form allowed me to make a cap which I was quite pleased with. My favourite part of the hat in the combination of colour, as well as the way in which simple images can be seen through the cut out shapes. If I was to do this again I would want to get the measurements for each panel more precise as in some areas parts of the hat overlapped thus blocking out certain area's which I wanted to draw attention to.