Today was the first day of our next project (field), this project consists of working in groups with people from different areas of our University. In this project we are working with textiles and product design. Today has mostly been focused on getting to know one another, and showing each other around our areas that we work in and what we can create. We also have looked into our brief and started to get to know who will work best in what areas, Also everyone’s personality. I feel as if today has been really positive and informative. I now feel confident with what i have to do and will continue my further research into out chosen brand which is Moncler, and have a look at their first collection and to wear they have come now. My group has decided to go with women’s wear. Moncler are a very winter based company, so designing something that is spring/summer will be challenging but also easy as its something there not known for. Tomorrow we will be going into more depth with where we will take out collection and what area we would like to focus on and start discussing ideas.

Here are a couple of photos of my final dress. I was really pleased with how my dress photographed and really pleased with how it fit on the model. I am very pleased with my overall outcome of my dress, i may have tried taking photos on a black backdrop to see which made the dress stand out more.

Here is the top half of my final garment, to get this effect i used shearing. I am really pleased with the effect this gave my dress. It was exactly the effect and look i wanted.  Although this took quiet a long time to do, i am really pleased with the out come.

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For my final dress design i am going to do a one shoulder, body con mini dress made out of boiled wool. Then over the top will be chiffon with my own pattern i have designed sheered then placed over the back of one shoulder coming round the front around the bodice. For the bottom half i will have it dropping floor length with the design carrying on to about 1/4 of the way then fading out to nothing.

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Here i experimented with different textures and different materials. With the draping’s i have done, i have added some texture to the picture to give it a real life effect of what it could look like.

In this session i looked into different types of fish that would relate to my work, i also went to a fish mongers and had a look at the different types of patterns and textures.

Here i learnt how to make lace, i did a fish so it would fit in with my theme. because of my design was so delicate i have to put a piece of fabric around the outside to give it a bit more support. To get this outcome, i traced a drawing i liked, then i sewed around the tracing, once this was complete i put this in the water, to let the dissoluble paper dissolve. I really like this but next time i would choose a stronger design, so it wasn’t too delicate.

In this session i tried tie-dying with different fabrics, in all of these the silk was my favorite, it worked the the best and looks the best. I also tried doing some screen printing, with this i added glued then added tin foil and a felt like fabric to add texture.

After doing the printing i decided to use the left over paper i used for printing to use as backgrounds for some illustrations for my final dress designs. this idea worked really well, and helped my create an image in my head.

Here i experimented with inks then transferring them onto different fabrics using the heat press. I tried to do patterns that i could relate to my fish theme i am going with, all of them were successful, and i am going to use this technique in my final dress.