Work created in illustrator - week 4 and 5

I found using In Design and Illustrator extremely hard at first, and I’m still finding it tough but it’s gradually starting to make sense, and the ability to use the software seems to be something that would be helpful to have in the fashion industry.

week 4 20/10/08
Folk Brief:
Shirt Design Project.
Explore Folk costumes of eastern Europe to form your inspiration and design research and development culminating in a finished shirt design.

Theme board -
Final Board - including illustration, flat drawings and swatches

Research -

Gucci

Balenciaga
'folklore imposes itself strongly with vivid colours and primitive graphics.' - Peclers

'born of cultural mixes and exploding frontiers, frees up a colourful energy in the use of shoking contrasts.' - Peclers

Peclers

week 3 17/10/08
......Peclers......

Today somebody came in to give a presentation on Peclers, i recorded some key notes!

'Dominique Peclers founded peclers Paris in 1970,
a decision inspired by her passion for fashion and architecture.'

- 09-10 fall winter -

key shapes:

wrapped rounded moulded streamlined squared

[-Functional garmets-]

variation of colours, shapes and materials -- futuristic

///Unisex - girls being boyish///

- I enjoyed the presentation from Peclers and found it very beneficial.

week 3 13/10/08
Organic - Ruffles and Folds

Brief:
Designers use ruffles and fabric manipulation season after season to amazing effect, it creates texture, romance, structure and from to a garment showing cutting expertise, fabric beauty and originality to a garment.

Using the title ‘Organic’ explore your research into designers work that have used ruffles in the current 08 catwalk.
Using fabrics of your choice drape shapes on the stand or experiment making pattern shapes to create your ruffle or fold.

Research ---

David Chihuly



Linda Lavin

Christopher Kane

Theme Board :

Experimenting With Draping Ruffles and Folds:

I really enjoyed this project, i have never worked on a manikin before so it was fun to try out different tecniques of ruffles. I enjoyed looking up the work of various designers and found the work of Dale Chihuly really fascinating.

week 2 11/10/08
Quote 'Banksy wall and piece'

Bristol Fashion

"Wearing your jeans two sizes two big so they hang low off your ass was invented in Los Angeles. Apparently kids in the hood wear clothes handed down by there brothers so the bigger the trousers, the bigger your brothers.”

I was intrigued by this quote as this was a question i always asked myself and it now explains why so many adolescents today hold the fashion of trousers hanging below there bottoms!!

Summer Holiday Project.

When I received the brief for the summer holiday project I had just arrived home from a long holiday in the mountains of Spain!
When I read the title, ‘Me, Myself and My Life So Far’ a million and one things came to my head, I had to try to think how to summarise my whole life into one piece of work.
After a lot of reflection I decided the best way to present my life was ‘on me’, so I drew round myself on paper (well my mum drew round me) and then recorded the basic information of my life so far, I included, family, things I love most, boyfriend, favourite poem, and fashion cut outs.

Here it is:

The title = Me, myself and my life so far

I had a lot of fun making this!!!! :)

week 2 9/10/08 Pattern Cutting


I'm enjoying learning pattern cutting; however I do find it difficult, you have to be extremely accurate and precise, this will be a goal I set myself as it is something I need to achieve.

Debate: For or Against Ethical and Couture Fashion

Our group is arguing 'For' Ethical and Couture fashion, we have shared the topics between the group.

My topic is Ethical - Reuse, Recycling and zero waste, and natural fibres.

I am happy with this topic as i am really interested in Fair trade ethical fashion.

I completed some basic research on to the two topics of debate :

Ethical -

The fashion industry has an VAST impact on the environment.

You can find fair trade products by looking out for the fair trade mark, which guarantees that that product has been made in line with fair trade standards, as set out by the Fairtrade Foundation.

Paying better prices Ensuring decent working conditions

More and more designers and businesses are now making fashion ranges out of recycled clothes, recycled fabrics or fibres.

Customise clothes you have bought second-hand from charity shops, its cheap and individual.

You might be suprised from what you can create from something you thought you would never wear again with a little bit of imagination, cutomise.......unique style




Couture -

You can pay up to £50,000 for an evening frock!!!!

If you are not rich it's hard for an individual to understand why the price is so high, but it's for service, workmanship, originality of a unique design and superb materials of the finest quality.

The made to measure exclusive clothes are virtually made by hand, carefully interlined, stay taped and fitted to perfection for each client.

Haute Couture is a French phrase for High Fashion.

Research on Katharine E. Hamnett

English fashion designer

Political T-shirts

Ethical business philosophy

"USE A CONDOM"

"PEACE"

Interview Katharine Hamnett

By Hermione Eyre

Sunday, 12 October 2008

The Independent

Katharine Hamnett achieved stardom as a fashion designer in the early-1970s. She dressed Liz Taylor and won bundles of awards. She invented the block-print sloganeering T-shirt, then gave Mrs Thatcher a shock with one in 1984 (see overleaf). She pioneered organic cotton production in the 1990s and lost interest in high fashion as she pushed causes from the cancellation of Third World debt to electoral reform. She sent Naomi Campbell down the catwalk wearing a top saying "Use a condom" in 2004. Then Henry Holland revived her trademark huge-print T-shirts and her stock soared again.

She's desperately passionate – "Fair Trade? It's not good enough. It has to be organic Fair Trade

"I don't believe my T-shirts changed anything, though they probably helped get the word out there," she says. "Hard to believe it but they used to be considered offensive. In the early-1980s American Vogue finally deigned to visit my showroom, which was at the time a very chic faux cave, and when they saw T-shirts saying 'Love' and 'Peace' they spun, literally spun on their kitten heels, and walked straight out."

In 1984 she was named Designer of the Year by the British Fashion Council, her clothes were stocked in 700 stores in 40 countries.

"I am sure," she says, breathing in the sweet, mouldy air of the Kew hothouse, "that plenty of people in the fashion industry wish I would just crawl away and die."

Katharine Hamnett, great English eccentric, is indefatigable. Long may she reign.

Book- Eco Chic the savvy shopper guide to ethical fashion, Matilda Lee
Foreword by Katharine Hamnett:
We have to feed ourselves, shelter ourselves and clothe ourselves.
Clothing is the third or fourth largest industry in the world. It employs a sixth of the world’s population. Consumer research shows that there is an enormous unprecedented surge in consumer concern about who makes clothes, how they are treated and how the manufacturing process affects the environment. This concern has grown to such an extent that demand for fairly traded good will soon exceed supply in some areas.
A recent consumer poll showed that 90 per cent of respondents do not want goods made with child labour, 85 per cent do not want goods with sweated labour and 50 per cent do not want goods that damage the environment. Retailing takes very seriously any research that shows consumer opinions above 90 per cent.
Given that marketing has been defined as giving people what they want, a moral imperative to produce goods cleanly, treat workers well and pay above living wages has now become an economic imperative. Yet there is a widespread lack of understanding of these issues.
Clothing is a very significant part of what we consume and people are realising ‘how we consume decides the future of the planet.’

Induction week 22/09/08

We were set a challenge, to answer a booklet of questions and we had to explore different places around Bournemouth in order to find the answers, it was a fun day!

Above is a picture of our group on the pier!

Brief - Design an outfit using bubble rap and other scraps of material, inspired from your journey around Bournemouth!!

We crushed up pieces of rock that we brought from the pier and used it as decoration for the chest area, we created a cape with a high back neck/hood inspired by the windy weather of Bournemouth, and included the A.I.B logo on the back to represent the uni.

We produced a vintage belt with brown velvet and cream lace, and contrasted that with a modern bag with decorative bows.

Week 1 3/09/08
Right so I haven’t used a sewing machine in about 7 years, so imagine what it was like when we had our first construction lesson with about 5 different demonstrations we had to complete ourselves…. yes I ended up very behind and frustrated, it seemed that this was everyone’s expertise and very simple for them.
I want to become more confident and skilled in this area and hope I improve rapidly!

-~-ENTHUSIASM -~-

Week 2 7/10/08
Task = ask students on campus 3 questions of your choice and collect a keepsake

Results:

Boy =
-What course are you attending here at the Arts Institute?

= Fashion, FdA 2 years, now in third year Ba Hons

- What do you love most in life?
= Freedom
- Whats your favourite item of clothing?
= Reversible zip up jacket
Keepsake = Mini orange highlighter pen

Girl =
- What course are you attending here at the Arts Institute?
= FdA Art and Design
- What do you love most in life?
= Sleeping when its raining
- Whats your favourite item of clothing?
= Vintage leopard print dress
Keepsake = Bag of peices of wood

I loved asking random questions to people i didnt know, i felt very spontaneous!!!!

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