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June 4, 2010

Day Two in the Textiles Lab

Another day long stint in the textiles lab I was determined to really explore the potential of the stripe technique. Although day one had had its successes, I felt like what I'd produced wasn't really in line with my colour palette, and didn't look very resolved.

I had a lot more luck today, arriving prepared I had worked out my exact colour palette the night before using the swatches I had dyed in class previously.

June 3, 2010

Textiles Research

Today was entirely was spent slaving over the textile lab stove top. Experimenting and dying up samples of the African inspired textiles I am incorporating into my final year collection. I intended to experiment with a few techniques but instead spent the whole day on stripes, which lead to me to question whether i should just use variations of the stripe technique in my collection. It would certainly unify the collection, and there is so much variation within this single technique I feel i would really be able to explore it fully if i concentrated on it alone.

The Process....

Iron the fabric into pleats

Clamp a piece of wood either side, leaving one edge exposed, place in dye bath...

Un-clamp...

Re-clamp, thi time leaving the other edged exposed, and put in dye bath..

Open out, rinse, and iron flat.

May 31, 2010

Sewing away....

With two looks due in three weeks exactly, I'm working on perfecting my tioles for my final collection. So far so good, only a few minor adjustments, and over all I'm really happy with the way my designs are progressing. Both these looks are going to utilise the African batik textiles I'm currently experimenting with, and I hope as a result create high impact/ high energy designs.

May 16, 2010

Searching for Silhouette Inspiration

Before starting to drape my final year collection I took part in some silhouette tutorials, where we draped on the stand with tailored garments creating shapes and silhouettes. It was a really great exercise that not only helped loosen me up but informed some of my most interesting designs that I'm exploring as part of my final 12 looks. I would recommend exercises like this to anyone before they start a collection, it's a great starting point and really assists in informing silhouette, shape and design.

I then took the photos of these drapes and created proper garments on the body in photoshop, I think this line up really reflects the direction that i want my collection to go in.

May 10, 2010

Safari's New Look

Sketching away, these are some initial designs for my collection. I'm really inspired by Dior's New Look. The actual collection, Dior's first in 1947 was called Corolle, but after the editor of Harpers Bazaar exclaimed "it was such a new look", it became more commonly known as such. I'm looking at adding the signature fullness of the New Look, but doing so in the creation of structured built up hour glass and trapeze silhouettes.

Image Credit - Maria Buszek

May 9, 2010

Couture meets Safari

It's my final year of university, and for my major project I'm creating a 12 look collection inspired by haute couture of the 1950's particularly that of Dior meets African Safari.

I'm really excited about my theme, I'm imaging built up structured and tailored designs, clean sleek lines, with the interjection of African wax prints and African inspired batik textiles, in exagertaed trapeze and hour glass silhouettes. These are a few pages from my design journal, including a short visual narrative i designed to explain my theme.