First Year Portfolio work. Fashion Design Practice, Shirt Project...

Concept Pages...

Samples of design work...

Final Piece...

Fashion Design Practice, Project Description.

- This moule allowed creativity aimed at a comercial market. It's built on fashion design, technical and practical skills. The final shirt developed from the title 'a classic genius' and research into natural form photography and edwardian ruffs.

First Year Portfolio work. Visual Studies...

Visual Studies, Project Description.

- This module involved developing mark making skills. Using a variety of materials and techniques to expres illustrative and technical fashion drawings. This is a few examples of my illustrative Drawings from my story of experimentation.

First Year Portfolio work. Fashion Materials and Form...



Concept Pages...

 

Samples of Design work...

Final Piece...

Fashion Materials and Form, Project Descripion.

- This module is based on form and transforming designs into a 3-D garment. The final Garment has developed from inspirational images about aspects of femininity.

Final garment...

Overall I am very pleased with our garment and I feel that Lily, Chelsea and I got on very well and collaborated excellently as well as learning new skills from each other. I found collaborating my designs with other designers a very worthwhile exercised as it is something I have never done before; it opens up your mind to alternative solutions and methods of designing, cutting and construction. If we were to do a professional photo shoot I think it would be interesting to play around with the transparency of the fabric. If I was to have designed this just from my concept I would have liked to have got my kaleidoscope images printed onto fine silk and replaced the chiffon with this and shone light through it and played with the twists a bit more. I would also recommend making a full scale toile before attempting the final garment instead of what we did which was to make a half scale toile as working with the amount of fabric that we did in the full scale is very different and difficult to predict, but this was part of the fun of this method.

Constructing our final garment...

We started off by laying  out three different fabrics  that were 2 mtrs long and of various widths (approx 1.5 mtrs.)

 We the pinned and sew these together to create one long piece of fabric, we then sew up the sides to create our pillow case.

Time to start our pattern...

The darts on the front and back of the bodice need to be at the top because of the positive and negative place meaning this is the only place we will be able to access them.

 When we had cut both pieces of the bodice we placed them on our pillow case...keeping in mind which shapes and positions worked for our toile. We then drew from one underarm to another. 

 We then cut around our pattern and out lines. This is the shape that has been cut away...

 This is what it looks like so far...

 We used our bodice pattern again to cut out our lining. We wanted our lining to be short so it would not get in the way of the transparency of the skirt. We then sew up the darts on both the frount and back of the lining and on the bodice.

 We then placed and cut our circles...

 We sew them together and over locked them because of the fine fabric.

 We cut 4 circles to create 2 tunnels...this is how it looked after cutting one...

 We then added in the invisible zip down the side of the bodice and the lining.

 Finally we over locked the hem and sew it to the bottom of the lining (missing the zip)

 Finished dress...