Fashion and Textiles

The fashion and textiles rotation was based around the idea of compress and expand. I really enjoyed these two weeks and they changed my perceptions of what studying fashion would be like. I felt the project had lots in common with the 3D and spatial design unit- it was alot more abstract and we could be really experimental with our ideas. I also really liked the way we were led from 2D into 3D. In everybody's work it seemed like there was a clear progression of ideas- shapes were picked out of earlier drawings and played about with.

While we were developing our ideas Michelle told us to think about works like, slice, displace, deface, fold and repeat. I thought initially that I would concentrate more on the textiles side of the project because I enjoy thinking about texture and repetition, but by the 2nd week i found myself thinking about different ways to fit my pieces around the body. My mum showed me some work by Issey Miyake and I liked the way his designs are very geometric, but still fit the curves of the body- alot felt quite fluid.

(i tried to put a picture up of one of Miyake's designs, but it failed)

Looking through my work, I saw alot of examples of things like pinching and folding so I decide to develop this using geometric, pointed shapes.

But I wanted the pieces to hang well on the body so I bent and twisted them to give them an organic feel.

I was really pleased with my outcomes from these two weeks, but if I had more time I would have enlarged the scale and probably used more intesting materials and fabrics.

(I'll try to upload some pics later, my computers getting angry at the moment)