Explore: Creativity

Development to Final design:
For this development, I have had some trouble getting ideas feed into me. However I wanto to try out basic stitching techniques e.g gathering, ruching. This has help me to finalised my idea of a ruched sleeve turned into a form of hoody.
Additional mix of tailored jacket, tights & pva and military ideas that I have opted for as it gives me a challenge to tackle with. As for a hood design, I was influenced by an image below.

future space fashion

http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_070129.html

Furthermore developments were done by piecing each pieces of tailored jacket annd military jacket together and see it they go well together or not. I also wanted to add contrast elements too. The pictures of different stages are supplementary keys to my final design. I also added padding on to part of my garment as I was particularly influenced/inspired by the Japanese exhibition.

 stitching over shoulder pad

 STUFFING PADDING

 FINAL SIDE

                         FINAL FRONT

 FINAL- BACK

Start of Wearable structure:

IDEAS: I had an idea of using military jacket, turn in to a dress with an element of space look, like a hooded detail over the face. To experiment with this idea I have adapted to the tights and glue method learned previously.
Below images, I have only chosen the top part of a chair to carry out my tights and glue method. In addition I wanted to get different structure of fabric, the softness of chiffon turned to something hard from PVA. The out come of the dried pva chiffon was pleasing as it gives a nice structure.

Japanese Exhibition:
An oppotunity for me what Japanese designers has to offer as I heard on Facebook that it is amazing good! I was not disappointed at all and found it exciting as I walked around each garments made by famous Japanese designers such as comme des garcons, Junya Wanatabe. It was unfortunate that photography are disallowed. I made some rough and quick sketches of my most favourite garments. I have found this exhibition as helpful and has given me ideas for my wearable structure. 

Pleats!!! 

The images below is my own examples of pleating made from calico. I have chosen to experimented with Box pleat and knife pleats, which are the basic pleats on pattern. The result on the calico turned out well. I played around with the pleating ideas on a mannequin. The overall result was very interesing indeed. I got carried away with draping it on a stand. The pleats on the mannequin formes some shapes of nature e.g shells, flower shapes...

                           

Tailored Jacket

I went to a Charity shop in Canning Town and bought a tailored 'JAEGER' jacker size44 men and cost £6. I then began to unpick important stages of sewing tailored Jacket. I was interesting and eye opening to see what the construction is like. However I did not attempt to work this on a mannequiin as I wated to use the jacket for my final wearable structure. Tailored jacket pictures below:

Military Jacket

Having a Swiss military jacket was an oppotunity to examine and determines the constructions of the jacket. We were given one jacket each to work with, ripping the seams as well as realising what other important parts of the Jackets are. 

I had a 1973 Jacket with a date printed at the inside centre back of the Jacket, which I thought was clever for identifying the date produced. From examinign the Jacket , the most interesting parts that I really like are the different types of buttons and the collars stiching and the usefuls pockets provided. See picture attached: 

After I have unpicked some seams from the jacket, me and Ayumi joined out jacket together and deconstruct the jacket using Ayumi's bicycle as her base. We then positioned our jacketson the bicycle and strat stitching. The result after was putting on a stand and work around it. Overall, I was an interesting way to work.

Cloth and Glue workshop

 

I made and opted for a video option because I had a vast number of pictures for the Cloth and Glue workshop. I think that this is a good way of viewing my work. The Cloth and Glue workshop experiment that I had was interesting yet slightly challenging. I was partnered with Ayumi and I admired her hard work and encouraging nature. We shared our equipment, taking in turns helping and supporting our ideas to be translated on the final outcome of the cloth and glue experiment. The theme for this experiment was ‘Organic’; we have added colours of cobalt blue and leaf green to our work to compliment the organic theme. As for a result, we were both surprised with how our cloth and glue 'sculpture' has turned out. It is unexpected and I admired the outcome of the shapes and forms that we received. The colours and the structure clicked to me in Dale Chihuly's glass sculpture work.

Dale Chihuly's glass sculpture chandelier at V&A museum in 1999

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/chihuly/

Chihuly's chandelier's colours resemble our organic theme, rather a coincident.

A closer view of his glass sculpture work.

 My 5 minutes sketch of a curve detail on the cloth and glue structure.

A cut out sample of mutton cloth after we have finished.

ENLARGED 3D SCALE on a mannequin

Thoughts and process:

Using A2 paper, I selected the drawings and transformed it into a large version. The process of this was very complicated due to changes of shapes and its sizes. I had to make some adjustment of the paper folding techniques, i.e floding in different directions instead. Using contrast colour of papers for this ENLARGED 3D scale has turned out successfully. The contrast papers are a great material from showing off the shapes on the 3D model. The shapes from the mannequin has an influence of an abstract art, which I later discovered after my explore research module trip to Tate Modern. 

Julian Trevelyan, a symposium 1936 at Tate Modern

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=14486&searchid=9347&tabview=image

A scanned image of pleat taken from 'The Art of Manipulating Fabric' by Colette Wolff.

Paper folding workshop.

From 2D to 3D scale. The pictures are in chronological orders, however some have been positioned in different angles to create different looks tricks the eyes.

Rules:
1. Circle.
2. Add squares and triangles around a circle.
3. Remove a shape from cicle.
4. Make a cut/fold line on a square shape.
5. Add small circles around the shapes and add a square.
6. Add a fold line to a new square.
 

 

I have kept the rules and drawings short and simple. Despite this method, I found that trying to transform 2D drawings into 3D scales by paper folding was difficult. However I have overcome the issues by using a practical tools to fasten the shapes that I wanted after, i.e staplers and tapes. Overall, I was pleased with the results after working with it for a while. I think the 3D scale looks cosmic, shapes that are often depicted from outer space...