The ornate taffeta, ruched collar is taken from the elaborate neck ware worn by upper class Tudor women. To pull this into modern day fashion have added it to a cropped bright white blazer to really create an eye catching contrast. The dress is also very stylistic of the Tudor era, the gathering at the waist of the dress adds a beautiful volume and movement to the skirt. This contrasts with the simple shift dress underneath. Design fills an A3 page.
My initial designs provided me with a good creative basis for my design process. It allowed me to experiment with a variety of basic garment shapes and styles which I could then develop. The graffiti also gave me design ideas for the embellishment of the garment in order to ensure it fulfilled the brief. This fills an A3 page.
Due to the nature of the design, testing was essential in order to guage how the rubble bin liner I was to use as my fabric would react to the variety of techniques which I intended to use. Through doing this testing I discovered a couple of techniques which would not work on the final product , for example, the can rings which I intended to outline the top with proved too rigid and too difficult to attach to the bodice in the quantities I had originally planned. After completing the testing, some minor modifications were made to the design. Work fills two A3 sheets and has been scaled down.
I am involved in an amateur dramatic society and was recently asked to costume the principle characters in their latest production of "Murder at Haliborange Hall" set in the 1920's. Research was key to create garments true to the era. Each costume also had to be designed to the individual character in order enhance their class, personality and mood. Due to the variety of ages and classes, this allowed me to be really creative with the elaborate costume needed for film star, Zuleika Daschund, and then stripping this right back down for the costuming of the maid. Work fills an A3 page.
This is the final design and product for my brief, to create a statement garment from recycled materials using inspiration from 'the streets'. The predominant fabric used are rubble bin liners, therefore it required very precise handling, as once sewn, it can not be un stitched and re stitched as normal fabrics can. I created an eye catching, original garment using a variety of techniques including CAD, gathering, embroidery, appliqué and stenciling. Due to the design, I created the pattern of the garment from scratch and made a toile to test it in order to make any adjustments necessary. The garment is made to fit a size 10.
Each of these developed designs has been designed and evaluated against the design specification to identify which best fits the needs and wishes of my client. All the garments are designed to use 100% recycled materials using black rubble liners as the base in all of my designs due to its shine, bold nature and that it contrasts with the skin colouring of the client.
As part of my research and development process I gathered a variety of recycled materials to draw inspiration for potential fabrics and embellishments. I also visited a sculpture park which had an exhibition of sculptures created using recycled materials. This gave me inspiration to experiment with creating similar effects of the sculptures on a smaller scale so that they could be adopted for use on a garment. This work fills two A3 pages.
