Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Generating Fashion: Toile- First Stage


For this week's  pattern making workshop with Robin and Eleanor we had been asked to come up with 20 designs based on our research. This is because we are drawing closer to the end of our research phase and need to begin designing and making a toile for our final outcome.
Fortunately, Robin was happy with my designs so far and picked on that he felt could provide a good starting point. From this, I headed straight to a mannequin to try and bring this design to life. What was prominent about the chosen design as the stacked collar and draped detail on the front.  I have decided to push this further by introducing almost 'vertebrae-like'  repetitive folds to make a feature of the back of the garment. A design consideration with this is how to incorporate this into a functional garment and whether it is possible to push this further without overdoing it.












However, this early stage of  toiling has been pretty easy and enjoyable as so far I have been able to just play around with fabric to see how far I can push my idea without having to think too much about particulars of construction. 

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