Thursday 25 November 2010

倫敦時尚學院服裝設計畢業秀 2010 (london college of fashion graduate fashion show 2010)



A little translation needed but i guess we can interpret the visuals

Fashion School | Academy of Art University | 2010 Graduation Fashion Sho...

Graduate Fashion Week 2010.mov



KEY TIP IS THAT YOUR PORTFOLIO IS A FUNDAMENTAL PIECE THAT SHOWS EXPRESSION OF YOUR CREATIVITY.. THE SHOW IS JUST A GLIMPSE INTO YOUR VISION.... ANOTHER CONSIDERATION IS THAT YOU MUST KNOW WHO YOUR CUSTOMER IS BECAUSE IN THE END YOU MUST SELL THAT GARMENT

Saturday 20 November 2010

VICTOR & ROLF

VICTOR AND ROLF...  CONTROLLED EXCESSIVENESS

VICTOR AND ROLF

RESTRICTED... NICE EXAMPLE OF CONFINEMENT

Friday 19 November 2010

NEW DRAPING

DRESS O TOP N SKIRT IDEA

JUST INITIAL DRAPE THE SHAPE OR GARMENT NO REALIZED YET

VIEW OF ALL ANGLES AROUND THE DRAPE

IDEA FROM ON OF MY OTHER DRAPES

CONFINED .. DRESS IDEA

DISERTATION OMG DISERSTATION.. AM TIRED OF PROMISING TO MYSELF TO DO THINGS AND NOT DOIN THEM

SO A LIL RUNT BEFORE I START THIS ... PLEASE PEOPLE I WANT TO HEAR YOUR OPINIONS OF WHY WE DON'T SEE BLACK MODEL IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY AND IF THERE IS AN OBVIOUS DISCRIMINATION AND WHAT NOT... AARHHHHHHHHGGGGGG.... AM GLAD AM FINISHING UNI VERY SOON SO THAT I CAN EMBARK ON THE DREAM THAT IS COCO NOIR.. NO ONE SAID ITS GOING TO BE EASY BUT DAMN I IS SHALL HAPPEN

Thursday 18 November 2010

Central Saint Martins AW10-11 - Videofashion Daily ... MATHEW HARDING, SIMONE ROCHA, LILLY HEIN


MATHEW HARDING... I GUESS PLEATS ARE IN THIS SEASON...

Central Saint Martins Fashion Show... TZE GOH... THIS IS THE COMPETITION THAT I AM AGAINST I NEED TO STEP MY GAME UP


TALENT .. I AM LOVING THE CONSTRUCTION .. SIMPLE BUT TECHNICALLY INTRIGUING... SHOUT OUT TO ZOYA FOR THIS VIDEO

ISSEY MIYAKE.. JULIA KRANTZ...Elizabeth Delfs

A FEW PEOPLE THAT I FEW KIND OF RELATE TO MY WORK IN TERMS OF TECHNIQUE (ISSEY MIYAKE AND IDEA OF USING SOFT FABRICS AND GIVING THEM STRUCTURE (JULIA KRANTZ)





Elizabeth Delfs - revolution series

Elizabeth Delfs - revolution series

Elizabeth Delfs - revolution series

PROGRESS SO FAR TOILES


SO HERE IS A QUICK RECAP ON WHAT AM DOING....  THE CONCEPT IS CONFINEMENT AND AM TRYING TO PORTRAY THIS MOOD IN AN INNOVATIVE WAY THAT IS NOT EXPECTED... WELL THAT'S WHAT I WAS AIMING FOR. INITIALLY I LOOKING WAS IMAGES THAT REPRESENT THIS MOOD, THEN I STUMBLED ON A STATUE BY Umberto Boccioni  "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"...  THIS IS A FUTURISTIC PIECE.. THE ARTIST WITHIN THAT PERIOD WHERE RESENTIFUL OF ALL THAT WAS TRADITIONAL AND WHERE MORE EXITED BY SPEED AND TECHNOLOGY... ON THIS IDEA I WAS ABLE TO RELATE TO THE STATUE THROUGH OBSERVATION, IN THAT THE STATUE IS MADE OF A MATERIAL THAT HEAVY N VERY STABLE WHERE AS THE WAY ITS CONSTRUCTED SHOWS MOVEMENT...  THIS TO ME EVOKES IDEAS OF FRUSTRATION  >>> WANTING TO MOVE BUT BEING UNABLE TO THUS BEING CONFINED. SO WITH THIS IN MIND I THOUGHT WHAT WAY CAN

I EXPRESS THIS IN A NEW WAY SOMETHING THAT PURPOSELY GOES AGAINST TRADITION... THIS WAS REVEALED IN FABRICATION... MY CHOICE WAS ORGANZA. WE KNOW ORGANZA TO BE DELICATE , FLUID, I TOOK THAT IDEA AND TWISTED IT BY APPLYING INTERFACING TO IT THUS MAKING IT RIGID>>> TO FURTHER EXPLORE THE IDEA OF STRUCTURE I THEN PLEATED AND PIN TACKED THE ORGANZA(OMG THE LONG THING EVER IS HAND PLEAT I SPEND MOST OF MY DAY PLEATING AND PIN TUCKING..
 MY NEW NAME IS MRS PLEATS LOLOL)..


THIS COMPLETELY CHANGED THE LOOK, AM NOT SURE WHETHER I WANT TO SEE THE ORGANZA COME THROUGH, WILL SEE AS I PROGRESS.  I ASWELL AS THIS I THOUGHT WHY NOT TRY EXPRESS THE EMOTIONAL ASPECT WHICH WILL BE ILLUSTRATED THROUGH DIGITAL PRINT AND MAYBE TIE DYING THE ORGANGA

OTHER ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLEATING I WILL BE LOOKING AT THE MAIN MAN HIMSELF MR ISSEY MIYAKE >>>MR PLEAT LOL  AND MANY OTHERS THAT WILL BE DISCUSSED FURTHER ON


ANYWAY I FEEL I HAVE WROTE TOO MUCH HERE ARE SOME PICS TO SHOW WHAT AM SAYING >>>>>


 Sculpture derived from Unique forms of continuity in space (Forme uniche della continuita nello spazio) (1913) 


ANYWAY I FEEL I HAVE WROTE TOO MUCH HERE ARE SOME PICS TO SHOW WHAT AM SAYING >>>>>

THE DRAPING FROM PLEATING AND PIN TACKING- ORGANZA


DRESS IDEA

JACKET IDEA
JACKET IDEA 


DRESS IDEA

JACKET IDEA

TOP IDEA DEVELOPMENT TO 3RD BEING A DRESS


DRESS IDEA

DRESS O TOP IDEA




DRESS IDEA

DRESS IDEA

SO ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THESE ARE THE TOILE AND DESIGN IDEAS TAKEN MAINLY FROM THE 1ST IMAGE ... SHAPE WHERE EXTRACTED FROM IT AND MANIPULATED TO REALISE ACTUAL GARMENT.... NEXT PROCESS IS MORE DESIGN DEVELOPMENT AND TOILES AND PROBLEM SOLVING THE FIT AND SO ON ..... OH GOD SAVE ME ... BUT REALLY PLEASE ...

Tuesday 2 November 2010

WHAT A DAY!!!!!

So OMG i need to blow off some steam.... from morning the day has been manic.. the victoria line (o don't even get me started on this line) delayed and i missed my train to uni... TOILE REVIEW TODAY.... another piece of headache... my materials decided not to work  like the time was going to stop for me in order to finish. i decided to take a minute breath before i had a mind malfunction... didn't really help because when my mind start over thinking nothing will stop it. The review didn't go as bad as i thought... the panicking from before seemed slightly over exaggerated but then it looked like time was running away from me.  i decided to toile on the mannequin for the rest of the day and wen home kind of happy with the drape just to get home to find my laptop cant switch on.. so i am praying to God that it switches on because this essay needs to get done among the gazillion of other things that i have to do.... not happy at all... and Thursday is FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ARGHHHHHH!!!!