After continuing with designing on the stand and in my sketchbook I decided on my final design. I wanted to keep with the theme of my sculpture.. I used wire as a central part of the design. I wove it through the fabric to give it shape and create texture and pattern. I used shapes I had pulled from my mark making to create the ruffels on the side of the skirt

I am really happy with the way the garment turned out. I think it fits in well with the theme of my project. I enjoyed the process of designing and especially creating the skirt. :)

This week we had to use the sculpture we had created and the mood board to design a piece. I took photographs of the sculpture and used drawing and representations of it to pull shapes from. We then have to use those shapes to design from.

I picked three shapes i thought would work well and cut them out of paper and fabric and began to manipulate them on the stand. Im goin to use this stand work and other shapes to design from to create the final design.

For the second week of this project we had to choose our favorite mood board and create a sculpture based on our research. I choose to work with silence as this was the board I enjoyed working on the most. As i was researching i found my self drawn to the sinister side of silence. That there is something really unnatural about it. I wanted to convey the idea of forced silence, of covering up the noise. For the swatch for this mood board i crumpled up tin foil and hi-lighted the texture created with a black marker. I used this to represent the nose or chaos, I then covered this with a light tracing paper so that you could still see the tin foil underneath. I wanted to develop this idea of covering up a very intricate and random pattern for my sculpture. I had worked a lot with wire for my first semester project so decided to twist and bend wire into a sphere and then use a very light chiffon to cover it. This turned out to be a very time consuming and delicate process but I was really happy with the finished sculpture.

We stared  a new project based on senses . after mind mapping all the senses I choose three words to work on. Poison, Silence and Illusion. We then had a week to create three directional boards inspired by these words. the board had to include imagery based  on the word, processes, work by another artist/designer on that word and a garment that relates to the word. I researched all three words by searching magazines for images and then looking up people who had researched a similar topic on the internet. We also had to create three swatches based on the words, fabric or otherwise. 

This is some of the research imagery i found and swatches i created.

Easter Research Project

Gusset
A gusset is a triangular piece of fabric that is inserted into a seam to reduce stress on that seam. It is used in areas that move a lot such as shoulders, underarms,  hems of some skirts and between legs.


Godet
A godet is an extra piece of fabric in the shape of a circle sector. It is inserted into the garment, ususally a skirt or dress, to create volume and flare.

Micheal Cinco

Gore

A gore is a shaped segment narrower at the top then the bottom. They are used to create flared skirts.

Dior

Tucking

A tuck i s a small pleat or fold in fabric that is sewn into place. A series of small parallel tucks are often used to decorate a garment or shorten it so it can be let down at a later stage. 

Darts

Darts are folds sewn into fabric to help provide a three-dimensional shape to a garment. They are frequently used in women's clothing to provide a fit that closely follows the shape of the wearer. They are essential to give the garment a specific shape usually to enhance the wearers figure.

Two kinds of darts are common in blouses for women:

-Vertical Darts - These type of darts are sewn from the bottom of a blouse to a point generally around the bustline. They are usually found at the front or the garment and are used to pull the bottom of the blouse towords the wearer.

- Bust Darts - These are short triangle folds that provide space for breasts such that the fabric under the breasts isn't hanging it is fitted closer to the wearer.

There are several other kinds of darts also such as Arm Eye darts, H darts, French darts, Irregular darts and princess seam.

Boning

Boning is plastic or metal stiffening strips that are used to support a garment. Usually found in strapless dresses or corsets, but can also be used to stiffen or stabilize a neckline, shaping a waist area or forming a sleeve.

Christian Dior

Jean Paul Gaultier

Layering

Layering is sewing different layer of fabric that have been treated or manipulated differently together to create volume or pattern on a garment.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Dior

Knotting

Knotting is used to create decoration and texture in a garment.

Easter Research Project

Ruching
Ruching is a sewing technique where the fabric is gathered in a repeating pattern to create ruffles or a scalloped edge. It is often used as decoration or to create visual detail on a garment.

Christian Dior

Fraying

Fraying is when the unseamed edge of the fabric begins to wear away. The weave of the fabric begins to come undone. This is used as a decorative technique on the edges of a garment.

Balmain

Alexander McQueen

Pleating

Pleating is a fold created in fabric by doubling it over on itself and then pressing or sewing it into place. There are sever different types of pleating.

Box Pleat - a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it

Inverted Pleat - a box pleat reversed so that the fullness is turned inward

Kick Pleat - pleat in back of a straight skirt to allow ease in walking

Knife Pleat - a single pleat turned in one direction.

There are many other kinds of pleats, any type of fold in fabric is classed as a pleat.

Prada - Spring/Summer 2012

Dior - Spring/Summer 2012

Gathering

Gathering is creating a series of small folds or puckers in fabric by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching. It is used as a decorative effect in a garment or to create volume ion a garment.

Alexander McQueen