Analyse This

Apologies for lack of posting over the the weekend, it was my birthday and I've been really busy. I have so many deadlines to meet this week too, so the posting might be further on hold until Friday! Thanks for all the lovely comments about my flat garment boards, I should have the final illustrations ready to share tomorrow. Also, thank you to those of you who mentioned my messed up layout! I had no idea it had changed (I'm a Mac user, and it looked exactly the same as before in Safari!). I'm sure it's fixed now, but if it still doesn't look right in Firefox/Internet Exp. please let me know!





A few pages of my product research for my Garment Technology module. Each week we were required to compile an A3 research board on a specific type of garment, then analyse each product on the board. We would then follow up the research by creating the pattern and a sample for that garment.


All work is my own.

Spec Drawings

Two of my finalised flat specification drawing boards. These are the pieces from my capsule collection I'm designing for Maison Martin Margiela at the moment. I'm so nearly finished, just got the fashion illustrations to finish. These were drawn by hand, scanned and photoshopped so you can get an idea of what the fabric will look like on the garments.







All my own work.

Wish You Were Here

I had planned to share some of my fashion sketches today that I've been working on for my Digital Design module. Using a software that's new to me - Lectra - I've been learning to use both Kaledo Print & Kaledo Style over the last 10 weeks.
Our brief was to create a collection with three different garments, three different prints and three colourways for each print, along with a colour palette and supporting research. I managed to finish my collection today, complete with prints and illustrations for the garments..but unfortunately the computer decided it would be a perfect time to delete the entire file I was working on and all its back-up files just as I was getting ready to print.

So instead, this is a photo I took on holiday this year in Florida. My friend told me she thought it was actually a postcard! Wish you were here?


Image from my camera.

Love

Huge thanks to Shelby Clark for these!


Images courtesy of Chelsea Shepherd, photoshopped by myself.

Shirt for Gwen

Part of my AS course was to design and produce a shirt for a celebrity. I chose Gwen Stefani, and after researching into her style thoroughly, I came up with the design of a fairly simple pale blue shirt at the front, with a yoke and mesh cut-out at the back. I decorated the mesh with embroidery patches and sequins.



Images: top: catwalk image courtesy of Ben Rose.
bottom: my camera.

Off Duty

I've been garment researching all day..and it's starting to prove quite useful for inspiration. I was looking through Style.com for past collections with sportswear for fashion or rever collars and naturally, came across one of Chanel Iman for Badgley Mischka Autumn/Winter 2007..which reminded me of several pictures I've been meaning to post for a while but haven't got round to yet. I love her sense of style, she always looks just perfect.







Images from Style and Altimira NYC.

Deutsch Fur

Inspiration for today: a piece from the German Vogue 1984 editorial on Sable Fur Coats. I came across this whilst researching outerwear for my Garment Technology module.


Image sourced from Fur Fashion Scans' flickr.