Pinterest Links

My Pinterest inspiration board http://www.pinterest.com/crazybabe0473/fairgrounds-unit-x/
( My own personal ispiration, artists, designers, images etc.)

Group Pinterest Board http://www.pinterest.com/crazybabe0473/unit-x/
(A board where my whole group could post and communicate ideas and inspirations)

My own work on a Pinterest Board http://www.pinterest.com/crazybabe0473/unit-x-my-images-my-work/
(A board where I uploaded my images just to keep track of my work and progress)

Refelection

After creating a fashion folder that had around 30 pages, we were asked to cut it down to around 10. To concentrate our work for showing to Rachel, the group and Charlotte Heylar from Stella McCartney's Print team. So my group decided the best way to concentrate our work would be to create it digitally, and even though this request was then dismissed, I still found it useful to have created a digital folder for my group because it was a way for me to reflect on the key aspects of our work, focusing on what was really important and what worked well. So I thought I would include it as it is almost my summary of the unit.

 

 

 

Overall I found this unit very complicated, but in a positive way. Learning to collaborate was probably one of the hardest yet most rewarding obstacles I faced and it is something that has really helped prepare me for the future. I think collaborating would be easier with a more directed brief and it would help to dismiss a lot of the unnecessary confusion, however I think my team worked really well together overall.  Even though one of the girls did very little work, I feel like me and my other textile team mate pulled her through and helped develop her ideas, in order to ensure that everyone had a fair part in the work. It also helped pull me out of my comfort zone, creating something I would never have created had it not been for my group.

Final Design

Knowing we didn't have much time we aimed to create one final piece so that we could concentrate all of our energy on that, so even whilst the possibilities were endless when it comes to draping and ruffling fabric (which is something I quickly learnt), we tried to focus in on just one design. I think our design was successful in that it captured everything we aimed to create, it had the large ruffled collar, which is something we looked at, ruffles and draping to manipulate the fabric and pattern pieces and an asymmetric design that connects fluently. One thing that we changed was how our final garment focused on a more refined colour palette than we initially started with, this was simply in order to create a garment that linked a flowed better, with all of the different fabrics. As a group we reflected and thought it would be for the best. This is something we would have developed further into more designs if we had the time.

 

Whilst working on our final design we also started to build our fashion folder, putting together all of the research, drawings, fashion illustrations and documentation images we had collected . Here are some of the fashion illustrations included.