Collaborative Designs

Thursday 25th November 2010.

Top (Becky West)

Bottom (Mine)
Skirt - all round pleats with reflective inverts'
- pleated skirt
- below the knee length

Final Design

It was meant to be a skirt but could not fit on the manaquin properly.

Designs

I decided to do 15 designs within 5 design pages, combining them into mini collections of 3 outfits per a page.

Viktor and Rolf

A/W 2010 RTW
'........Willy Wonka's of the Fashion World...'

As the catwalk show got into full swing, Viktor and Rolf started to chang, undress and manipulate the garments into new clothes in full view of the audience whilst on the catwalk.

S/S 2011 RTW
'....... a sense of style of classic aesthetics mixed with the surreal, mixed with the ecentric, with a touch of wonder and fun........'

Monday 15th November 2010

Another image that I found quite interstings was shadows and reflective/ion.

The high shine and finish is the the kind of effect that I want my end result to resemble.

Concept Pages

Portfolio Pages-

Gareth Pugh Spring/Summer 2011 Womenswear

Gareth Pugh

He often uses "nonsensically shaped, wearable sculptures" to "distort the human body almost beyond recognition''.

'clothes were solely catwalk experiments'

Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie

Spiral escalator

Monday 8th November 2010

I found these images interesting, I feel that they relate to my thought process and concept that I initial want to follow.

Honda - The Cog

Gear Ring from Kinekt Design

Moving Mechanisms

is a system of parts working together in a machine; a piece of machinery : the gunner injured his arm in the turret mechanism.
or
a natural or established process by which something takes place or is brought about : we have no mechanism for assessing the success of forwarded inquiries | the mechanism by which genes build bodies.
or
a contrivance in the plot of a literary work : his Irma La Douce is a musical based on the farce mechanism.
or
the philosophy doctrine that all natural phenomena, including life and thought, allow mechanical explanation by physics and chemistry.

Friday 12th November 2010

Movement-
1) an act of changing physical location or position or having this changed: a slight movrmnt of the upper body/ the principle of free movement of goods between states.
2) the moving parts of a mechanism esp a clock watch.

Thursday 11th November 2010

Interaction 

with    

Movement   

                  Push Bike                                                                   Wind Up Toy

                                                                    

Pushing Motions                                                                                                               Esculator

                                                             Puppets

                      Swings                                                                        Motor

                                                                                                     being moved.

Motor -  the action or process of moving or being moved.        

                                                                     Instrutment

                        

                                     Accordian

'The dress likes to write sculptural gestures in the air' by Cocky Eek.

http://butdoesitfloat.com/494122/The-dress-likes-to-write-sculptural-gestures-in-the-air.

Cocky Ekk

Cocky Ekk

Ekk is a human sculpturer who merges different art forms into one substainabal piece. She combines fashion design and sculptural work together by using the elements of light and air to create performance pieces. Ekk plays with the ideas of volume and substance.

Thursday 4th November 2010

Subtraction Pattern Cutting Workshop.

Equipment Needed:

• 1.5 metres of plain medium - heavy weight fabric.
• 1.5 metres of pattern/ printed fabric. 
• Pattern Cutting Essentials.

Step by step process:

 Linings:

 Tubing:

Wednesday 3rd November 2010

30 Years of Japnaese Fashion Exhibition, London Barbican Centre.

(Some of the designers that were exhibited are named below).

·     Rei Kawakubu

·     Comme Des Garcons

·     Yohji Yamamto

·     Issey Miyake

·     Koji Tatsuuo

·     Hiroaki Ohya

·     Tao Kurihara

·     Collection of Koyot

·     Ai Weiwei

 Some images and information of designers work that I found intersting.