Day 1: Fashion and Textiles

Task 1: make five small clothing items out of paper 

Task 2: choose one of the designs and make bigger versions of them 

Task 3: in groups dress the mannequins in what you have made

We were given one hour to complete the first task and I finished it with 15 minutes to spare. So I decided to make some fabric patterns. To improve on this task I could have been more abstract with my work, other classmates chose to do five fabric patterns rather than five items of clothing.

 

For the second task I chose to scale up the weaved paper design; I used a variety of styles ranging from two types of paper to two different designs weaved together. I feel that my design that I chose was too simple compared to what others did and in the future I should not be afraid to hold back.

For the third task we were given words that we had to make our design relate to (as shown below). We had to move around the mannequins for each new word and then use the textiles provided appropriately.

1) You were allowed to do what ever you wanted for the first mannequin
We chose to use the materials as a skirt which extenuated the hips because of
the big ballooning effect it had 

2) Futuristic
We felt that the design of the fabrics spoke for themselves for this word, and the
headdress just added to the  allure that the future has

3) Draw attention to the shoulders
we focused the clothing around the upper part of the body so that the eye is drawn straight to it

4) Draw attention to the waist
the addition of the flower to this skirt helps to draw the viewers eye to the waste, I feel
that if this flower was not there then drawing attention to the waist would be a lot harder.

5) Organic
The flowers give the organic feel to the dress, we used the leaves as-well as the bright
flowers, this gives a stark contrast between the tow different shades and helps to
draw the eye into the middle of the photo

6) Your own design
We found it quite hard to design our own outfit as we wanted to incorporate all of our designs
into the work; however I felt that my design did not tie in well with the rest of my
groups designs so we chose not to use mine in the final piece.

Front

Back

For this task we finished each outfit and photographed it before the time was up; this may be because of the minimalist look that we used throughout this task.