Fashion Textiles and Promotion

Day 1

Today was a very interesting day. We started the day off by printing off an image of any type of art work. I chose a classical painting by Pablo Picasso because of the interesting colours and shapes in it. We then had to create three objects out of paper inspired by our image. My image had quite a lot of triangle and square shaped within it so that was my main inspiration for my three objects. I created a 3D triangular object, a triangle with flowers on the top inspired from the flowers in the background of the painting and last of all I created a tall cylinder with slits in which i inserted triangles. We then had to photocopy one object of our choice 20 times and then join up with a few other people and work together using our different shaped to create an outfit on the mannequin.

 
 
 

  
 

Overall i was really pleased with my groups final outcome. All the different shapes worked well together. I feel like it was a rather daring and sexy outfit.

Day 2

On the second day of fashion textiles, we created outfits on a model using paper. This was really fun and it allowed me to be very experimental as i was working in a much smaller scale than usual. I worked with different shapes and compositions. My favourite outfit was the middle one, especially the top half of it, i love how fierce and daring the triangles look. 

We then had to brainstorm ideas and come up with an piece of clothing that we had to create the following day. I wanted to stick with my idea of the triangles. At first i thought of creating a simple skirt but I wanted to create something a little more complex that would stand out so i decided to create a bra. I started of with two triangles attached to some string and i built upon this. I added two more triangles to create cups for the breasts and then i covered the bra in triangles of all different sizes. In the end the shape sort of reminded me of a pineapple.

    

My final item was then model'd and i think the pictures came out amazing. The black and white adds to the mood of the clothing. A peer of mine created a mask with the same design of triangles as my bra so we decided to model the two items together and i think this looks even better. It seems as if they are made to be worn together. My favourite shot is the fourth one. The black hoodie works with the savage and dark feel of the bra and mask.