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.