Reflection on our group work

I feel like our group has worked very efficiently and really appreciated how co operative and compromised effectively to come up with the most suitable outcomes to fit our brief. I really enjoyed the experience of working with the interactive arts and fashion art direction students as it gave me the opportunity to see how…

Poster/ design for trouser print

Our poster was pretty simple to put together as myself an Natalia had already designed a print for the trousers together and we were then able to use this to form the poster as well. For the print I created the background using research from paint splatters and Natalia used her observation drawings and merged…

Fashion Video

The original idea we had for the fashion video was to try and create the effect the model was actually on a night out. For this we introduced disco balls and projections onto the garment and got the model to dance and mimic the movements that we had seen through our research. We also got…

Final Outcome

The final outcome overall was a success. I was really happy with how we had worked together as fashion students but there was a few details of the piece which i would like to have changed if we were to do it again. I feel like we could have spent more time on the design…

Sampling

First we sampled the ties for the trousers and were very happy with the result as they seemed to look effective and would be able to ease into the seam and sit in an effective way. The toile for the top only caused an issue as it was the first time myself and Iona had…

Group Meeting after Easter

We met up as a group to discuss final design ideas to begin the making process. We had all done similar designs with knots from our draping session before the break so we decided that this would definitely be including that in our final garment. We then experimented with adding ties into the side seam…

Initial designs.

My first few design ideas have been coming through after draping and playing around with some fabric. We decided as a group to look at some of the ways people customised they’re clothing. One of the most effective ways we found was by knotting up the fabric and creating different shapes and shadows across the…

Research

After deciding as a group to research 80s/90s rave culture i started looking at the band following and the Madchester period. Looking closely at how young people at the time followed the fashions of the bands and a lot of the fashion trends were based around their artwork or the musicians individual style. For example…

Beginning of Unit X

When being given our Unit X brief and being told we had to work collaboratively with the interactive art students and the fashion art direction students, we met as our group and decided our project was to be based around the 80s/90s rave scene. My research is beginning looking at bands in the time and…