Inspiration for Shape.

Comme Des Garcons.
The trousers and the shorts, I really like. By using layers of dots and jackets, shirts and trousers Comme Des Garcon have reinvented the idea of the suit.
The women that shop Comme Des Garcons i like to target, because I believe they wear these clothes to show they have an understanding of fashion, what can be done with fashion, and this makes them seem to be fashion forward and knowledgeable of the fashion industry.

Fabrication, Shape and being lost again

Long winded thinking....

Fabric are one of the most important stages in a designers collection, picking the right fabrics to convey the right concept and message, but how?

Shape, Why have you chosen that shape or are you just creating it without knowing?

Two important question I need to asnwer Some how.

Talking to people in my class today, what do they think there shape is inspired from, how did they get there, helped me a little even though it was difficult themselves to answer.

Trying to asnwer this question, I understood that the process from pattern cutting to the stand is where the shape takes place for me, getting inspired from commes des garcon and japanese pattern cutting, I have come to learn that the inspiration is the idea that the shape in the garment changes from person to person, and this shape creates an organic shape, a shape that can be change organically without me minulating pattern or styling of the garment, This idea relates to the erosion of rocks ad this natural process that takes place whcih changes the shape of the rocks.

I could look at other garments in my collection and re-design them looking and targetting more the customer, and where I see my collection, but this I think will bring to colliding concepts and make a very unconvincing line up. 

Fabric, Fabrication, Fooobracccc Fiiibroooccc

Looking at reels, strands, stools and rolls of fabric i just cant seem to find the one that says work wear, arty, sophisticated, texture and ideas.

Back into those shops, back to the research, flicking through my fabric book.

The Last Two Weeks

The last two weeks I have been styling photo shoots.

 Dorrell Merritt

Hannah Coates.

http://www.teatumjones.com/springsummer11.html#
Teatum and Jones met whilst working together at John Richmond 
where they became enamoured with one another’s sense of escapism.

Besotted with the power of a story and drawn to both romance and tragedy
the duo find themselves compelled to seek out beauty and refinement in
what is ordinarily considered sinister or dark.

The Designers are conceptual in their approach to design whilst
remaining loyal to an ethos of authenticity, desirability and quality. 
Fascinated by human behaviour and exchanges, Teatum and Jones’
signature is within their anthropological approach to design and fashion.

The Teatum Jones woman has a refined and contemporary take on elegance.
She is inadvertently chic yet boldly nonchalant. She is drawn to the label
because it allows her to achieve the perfect balance between masculine
and feminine. Embodying the effortlessness and ease of the pieces, the
Teatum Jones woman embraces the conceptual whilst radiating a
contemporary elegance.


Teatum Jones I find really inspirational the elegance they have put into there womens wear, is beautiful. I looked at Teatum Jones for my project because their customer is similar to mine, so I wanted to identify other needs and wants by this consumer.

Illustrations

the first try

New and improved.

NEW NEW NEW

STYLING PHOTOS are UP!! :D and NEW ILLUSTRATIONS :D

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

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I recently went to this exhibition future beauty: 30 years of Japanese Fashion, the exhibition has inspired me in so many ways, looking at different materials, cuts, drapes, and different ways of viewing work, this exhibition shows at the Barbican, it celebrates works from Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto and shows young new designers too, it something worth looking at and exploring.


I came across the exhibition because the tutors had mentioned it in class, to be honest with that title and my erosion work I thought it had little to help me move forward and help me in my work, but the tutors were talking me through my work, and strongly suggested that I go. so I went.

Just quick sketches at the exhibition.


Both Rei Kawakubo designs, I like the way the garment changes from flat to person, the really nice drapes it creates, I also really like the complicated one on the left Rei says that can be worn anyway, it is really up to the wearer, this is what inspired me about this garment is that its different on every one that puts it on, the idea that it is one garment but has so many different designs when worn.


I really enjoyed this flat to garment ideas, and I thought about my own work, this idea that I was taking a plain t shirt and attaching knitted fabric to it to distort the t shirts shape so that it would be different, but in the same way as Rei has designed garments flat which look completely different from person to stand, I wanted to understand how you would understand this so I started to experiment.