Week 7 day 6 

By now I have finished, in regards to the making of my final piece and now whats next is the photo-shoot with my model wearing my design. if I have to say I felt that the making of my top overall was very difficult and that may be because my top was quite a complex top to make meaning that it would take a little longer than others, also I feel that I am quite inexperienced in the terms of tailoring meaning that it would not be at it's complete best all anything extremely professional. Nonetheless I felt that I picked up a variety of skills throughout my project and the making of the piece etc. which before I would have said that I wasn't at all confident in. I would also express that I am very satisfied with my final piece as it is one of the first few piece of clothing that I have made so overall I feel that it was quite a successful project and working within the theme of 'Structural Attachment' and 'Confinement'.

Week 7 day 2&3

During this week I have developed my final final idea and through this week going on I am now in the terms of making my final piece. Today I had worked up the pattern cutting and getting the right measurements from my model so it fits correctly on him. During my making as I was not developed enough to use measurements when drawing out the pattern I worked within another kind of method called 'draping' this aloud me to use a practice piece of fabric upon a mannequin and drape over it to create the shapes I needed for my pattern cutting. Considering that I was using a dolmen sleeve that mad it a lot easier. Through this I was able to have all the pieces needed to design my top by the end of the day. 

The following day after I had draped out my patterns I used the practice fabric pieces and traced around it on pattern-cutting paper. so it was ready to use when I start to make my top the next day using the cut pattern paper on fabric for my final piece. 

Week 6

During this week I am starting to come towards the end of my project and my final piece is in the process of being designed . Through this week however I have been finalizing everything and brainstorming on an outfit.

This would include quick flat drawings, mannequin design, and more working within shapes. Nonetheless I was able to think of efficient ideas towards the end of the week and had chosen to design a top for menswear. This particular idea had stemmed from my original idea of designing an over-sized coat for menswear, unfortunately with limited time this would have taken awhile to actually make which gave me the idea of altering the coat into an over-sized top instead, also my color had been chosen as well as I have decided to go for grey. The particular choice had been made solely through my theme being confined. I originally wanted to go with either the colors of a rich green or blue; however I did not feel that these colors linked upon my inner theme being 'confined' as it is more upon the terms of being hidden; restricted of freedom and choice, in restraint which is more so seen as quite dark and negative and gloomy in a way. And what better color then grey to present that description as grey is seen as camouflaged and dull; restricted of it's color. Also grey is a color that we seem to overlook as it's not as rich and exciting as other colors, yet its also not iconic and bold like white and black therefore it is forgotten.   

Week 5 Day 5

Accessory Design-

Final Design Photo shoot

Here I have presented the Photo shoot to my accessory design piece of glasses from a variety of different angles and view points.

Week 5

Personal Work

During our project I have made a personal choice to change my sketchbook to A4. This is a personal chose that I have made as I felt that using an A3 sketchbook was not working for me and I felt that I was forced to work big when in honesty that isn't really my way of working as I work detailed and small. Nonetheless since using my A4 sketchbook I feel that the presentation is better and I feel a lot more confident in working with it and going forward with my project. And in the future I will be sticking with an A4 book. I have also changed my inner theme from instead of continuing with Architecture I have moved to doing confinement instead.

Tate Modern

Week 5 Day 3

During this week we took a trip to the Tate Modern also our research was really for our essay I found some particularly interesting pieces of work that I really felt could help towards my final piece. In the modern Tate that was an artist that I particularly liked called Rebecca Horn and another artist called Louise Bourgeois. These artist really caught my attention as I felt that their work really expressed my inner theme of 'confined.

I feel that I could really use their work withing my own work towards my theme and I hope to use in my on going theme.

Week 5 Day 1

Accessory Design

During this week we learnt how to make accessories towards our final project design. On the first day of our workshop we brought in object around our homes to use to make our practice accessories. For the first day I brought in cotton buds, wooden picks, DVDs, and straws. Even though we were meant to be working upon designing shapes that would be interesting in the essence of our accessories I however knew that I wanted to design glasses. This meant that I worked upon designing interesting glasses using the objects that I had brought in. 

I felt that the accessory design workshop was very helpful and something that I thought that I would not enjoy as much as I did so far as I knew that my pathway would not quite lead to accessory design but it was in fact very enjoyable and I feel that this could be added towards my final project piece.

Week 5 Day 2

After designing our practice accessories we had to work with manipulation by cutting or editing are accessories and adding it to models from magazines that suit the our chosen accessory design. As I had chose to work with glasses and glasses specifically designed for menswear I had to look upon close- ups photos and men and had added my accessory design to the model in an interesting and exciting way. I even thought about making some of my designs into a headband or some kind of head-wear.

Through the next part of the workshop we had to work upon mannequins to help us towards our final design for our accessory; however I unfortunately did not have a head to work upon with my design idea so I had decided to sketch out the my design instead to decide how I am going to design it. Through this I had chosen to use wooden pegs and a hot glue gun to attach the structure of the glassed together.   

Through my research I had taken inspiration from designers Sam and Agi as I found their work very fascinating and very captivating to look at. I also like the way the accessory on the face droops down from the model like it is actually attached to the face, as if the accessory is growing upon the model. That is what I found to the most unusual. I also loved the way it hides the models identity so the audience has no way of identifying. I felt this also adds to add to my inner theme of 'confined'

as we are confined within the accessory as it takes control of us and we no longer can control our self as the accessory takes all the attention away from us leaving us sightless and unable to move much losing all of our essential scenes and instincts. I also feel that the design is confusing and frustrating to look upon which makes us want to look at it more.

Image found: http://avisim.tumblr.com/

Digital Print

Week 4

Through this week we had the opportunity to learn the grasp of Photoshop and how to use the system. During our week of digital print we were working upon duplicating patterns and adding other kinds of effects such as altering the color, adjusting the picture like changing the size or moving it across the page and so on. This was exciting as is it really gave me the knowledge of Photoshop and how to make and interesting but professional print. I would have to admit however that when I had first began with the workshop I did in fact find it very difficult but now I feel very confident independently using Photoshop with no trouble when it comes to pattern print. During the workshop I really wanted my patterns to link upon my chosen theme. This meant that I worked with quite abstract shapes and peculiar way of pattern as a way of suiting my theme. 

During the end of the week however we had a tour of the prototyping room where they showed us how each machine worked. This included the digital print machine. Through this we watched how our personal designs printed out onto fabric what exactly was the process of the making.

Here below I have shown the fabric of the print make that I had made; documented below to show my progress and the sheet with it was printed upon with the color completely removed.

Through this we also used are patterns and created mannequin designs.

Personal Research

Week 3

Through my own personal research for my project I had taken a trip to my local library to gather inspiration and ideas that could potentially be put towards my final piece for 'Structural attachment'.

Within my research I had borrowed a variety of books including architectural books which which links to my inner theme as I had decided to start off with architecture. The next books that I had decided to borrow books based off of art such as cubism. I had chosen this book in particular as I felt that it really linked to my three words which we had to choose last week (broken, frustration, confined) I felt that cubism in a way links to my theme through the perception of a kind of on structured style of art and making the art very had to identify to the viewer. I found this very fascinating useful as inspiration for a garment. 

3D and abstract shapes was also another book that I thought i'd take a look as just like cubism I found the illusion of the shaped and it's ability to appear as though the shapes are consistently within movement as though they are right in front of the viewer captivating and bizarre.

Nonetheless I felt that borrowing these books was extremely helpful towards my project as it gave me an insight to other interesting ways of make my project appear bold and unique. 

Knit 

Week 3

During this week we had been set into three separate groups; between each group either having a tutorial of fashion promotion, digital print, or knitting. In this instance I had choose between which tutorials we would rather do and I had decided to choose knit and digital print. Nonetheless this week I was doing knit with Bid.  

If I were being very honest I would have to say that when I started using the knitting machines, personally I found it quite difficult and it took me and my group that I was working with a long while to make just one singular small piece of knitting garment, which really should not have taken to long and causing us to ask for help continuously. However it was our first time actually using the machine so making mistakes and spending a lot longer on each knit would be understandable, and fortunately throughout the week we did become a lot faster with using the machines and our mistakes and need for constant help began to lessen.

Personally I felt that this week was very useful and I had gained a lot of knowledge through my experience; learning a variety of knitting techniques such as stripes, the orange peel, the volcano, laddering, and many more and also how to use the machine in itself. My experience also gave me a new insight to knitting as I wasn't really that excited about this particular way of sewing nor did I really want to take the time to learn it, through this week I realized it was a lot of fun and now I would have no problem doing it again, plus I would definitely consider adding knitwear towards my project. So overall I felt it was an enjoyable experience as well as intense and I really have no regrets taking this tutorial.