Fashion - Illustrative Designs

These are some experiments of more illustrative ways of drawing my design. I really like the silhoutte style one on the left. I did these using black ink, the strong silhoutted figure works well at making the garment designs really stand out. I like this technique of drawing the designs because it really allowed my to try and portray the idea of movement in the piece. As the original idea was made from rigid pieces of card it was hard to imagine how else it could fit the body, or other materials it could be made of where as this style of drawing really allowed me to portray how the garment idea could contour the figure. 

Fashion - Contextual

Contextual Studies - Fashion
The designer I found was called Jacob Birge. I'd never heard of him before and it's the boldness of his work that really stood out to me. I was browsing randombly on Trendland ( A blog site which hosts different artists and designers) I knew they had a section for fashion and I have always found it a great place to go online to find artists you've never before heard of.

http://trendland.com/symmetric-strategy-by-jacob-birge/#

The work is heavily influenced by symmetry. That's why the collection is named Symetric Strategy. One thing I found particulaly interesting is the use of the repeated headpieces on each of the outfits. I think the way it covers the face makes it quite depersonal. Not human. I think the outfits themselves have a futuristic look to them. The rigidness, the bold shapes, the hard edges and the panelled effects on some of them. The collection is supposed to reflect the relationship between man and technology and I think this is why it has such a futuristic look. The idea of technology... Man made, not natural. The fight between technology and nature. The outfits in some places contour the body with the natural curves and in other places are more structures and alter the natural shapes of the body. The use of the primary colours red and blue really make a bold statement. Both contrasting and being alongside the blacks make them really stand out strong.
(Note to self complete this)

Fashion - Observational Drawing

The first drawing is the final design drawn up. (After several attempts of getting it right that is). The other images are experiments of using the same design in different ways. The second drawing being the design turned upside down and drawn out in a different angle and adding more layers. The third and fourth being an experiment of using the pleated design as some sort of shawl or scarf, or maybe a big collar. I really liked trying out these different things and think the outcomes have worked out really interesting. It's interesting to see how you can alter one tiny thing and it can make a big difference and how the same idea done in different ways can create some good effects.

Fashion Experiments

These are some more experiments but on the larger size manikin. Through these photos you can see how the ideas developed. From the first initial pleated and curved shape, to trying that in another position and adding more to the shoulder. I did this because I thought it would be interesting having pleats in one corner and curves at the other. I then began to develop it a bit more adding more pleats and similar curved shapes. The final photo is the final idea finished.

Week 1 FASHION

Fashion Week 1.

These are some photos taking of various experiments with paper shapes on the manikins. Certain ideas looked interesting and others didn't work out quite as well.I really like the bottom left idea, it looks almost like a quirky waistcoat, and it was only made from an altered version of the torso template duplicate and mirror. It's quite simple yet I felt it worked quite well.