ANATOMY: presentation

So here it's it, thirteen long weeks of work. It's all come together and with an hour and a half to spare. The culmination of my research and design development is ready for all to scrutinise (so be nice!). 

For this collection we where asked to make a press pack that included a press release and photos of our garments. Here's mine. A beautifully hand made black envelope with my white print on in puff binder. 

My collection name Anatomy appears on the front and my logo to the back. 

Once opened you see a5 post card style documents backed with my white print on the black card. 

The press release tells of when and where my collection will be launched who will be invited and a small blurb about the collection and where it will be sold. 

The final design, back and front illustrations, complete with specification drawings and fabric samples. Sorry it's blurry I've had to edit it as my photography skills suck. 

Bones, the mentalist and the queen of skulls. Three more of my final illustrations. 

I decided as the collection was only in monochromatic colours that their hair and skin should be vivid. 

I researched in to Robert Best's style of illustration when creating my boards. I love his work for Matel, his Barbie drawings are adorable. 

So that's thirteen weeks of work, all brought together on four boards, a press release and a litte envelope. Feels bizarre. I have a massive sketch book, marketing report, technical file, bag and shirt to accompany them but these are more organised. I'm now progressing into my second year :/ 

But hey there's always time for a random animal. 

And today's animal is a badly drawn panda bear! Yay! Thanks for reading. Keep checking back for updates and new of my summer project. 

Feathers: any of the flat appendages growing from a bird's skin and forming its plumage.

Feathers are great I love them nearly as much as fur. I think my fondness comes from the inspiring designs that the great late Alexander McQueen produced. Although feathers can be light and angelic, they can also be dark, moody and quite evil in appearance. Colleen Atwood use them beautifully in Snow White and the Huntsman for Charlize Theron's costumes.  

The dark sinister feel is amazing, the darkness really caught my attention and I decided to design a few like that. But with more of a feminine thuch. 

This was the first and most horrible of drafts, drawn with my four year old nieces pens. I've tried to create a sharp bodice that flows in to a feathered skirt.

That then inspired this page of doodles, at first I mainly focused on the bodices, but the huge feathered skirt made a reappearance far right. 

I really liked the end image. So re did it portrait on a3. To start I used pencil and fine liners. I couldn't make it dark enough so added black acrylic. 

A quick comparison to the first. 

A close up of the feathers. I love how mutch detail I managed to cram in. 

The shoes id love to make these, it's a shame my name isn't Louboutin. Maybe one day they will be real. 

Collar to cuff: coloured designs

Here I have been trying out different media formats on my designs, this page has a mix of acrylic water colours and pencils. 

Here I have used acrylic for the shirts and skirt and water colour for the skin. Model three has a Robert best style face.

Heee I have only used acrylic and loved the colour on the skirt and on the hair.

 

A mix of pencils an acrylic. 

I've mainly used water colour for these. The hair was acrylic.  

I've used charcoal pencils for the first time here, and the model looks a lot like skeletor :/. 

By the time I had got to these designs I seemed to have got the hang of it. 

Charcoals again. 

I really liked these mainly because I had doodled a louboutin pump in the middle. I have used acrylic on all of these. 

A mix of acrylic and water colour.

               RANDOM PARROT :). 

My design boards are next, i need to add media to my final nine and arrange them on the boards. Then I will post an update. 

Collar to cuff: Anatomy construction.

When my draft garment was complete I moved on to producing best patterns that include seam allowance and are attached straight onto the fabric and cut around.

Then I had to complete my print. As the theme was anatomy I went with one of the most interesting parts of the body the human heart. It is a repeating pattern of white dye on black cotton. 

Construction was easy, as during the drafting process I made notes and on how I had made it. At first I thought i had made the garment too small but I was assured it would be fine once I had inserted the zipper. 

The finished article. I am incredibly pleased with the outcome even though I had put it on the block a bit wonky. 

And the back view, still wonk at this point. And severely in need of pressing. 

Collar to cuff. Realising my garment.

As soon as I knew what garment I would be making I drafted my pattern using a standard dress block. I then had to add the princess seam front and back and in my sleeves. My practice Toile has come out surprisingly good. I reconsidered the shoulder padding but here it is.

I've used a zipper up the front hook and eyes on the collar and cuff. There's no embroidery yet as I'm going to print a guide on to black cotton on the princess panels, collar and cuff. 

Here is the back view, don't be to harsh as it hadn't  been pressed here. 

Collar to cuff.

The next project of the course is called Collar to Cuff. It draws on th shirt making our class has been doing since September. The idea is to collect reaserch into a theme mine was anatomy. 

Then design from the reaserch. Using various medical and Antony images I started my design process. I've tryed to take direct inspiration where possible but the main bulk is centerd around prints and embroidery.

    

Then I came to think who whould wear these garments? Not many people would be seen in 3d sulks with a fringed hem. So I thought of people like Gaga and Kat Von D. That brought me to a tattooist living in L A. 

She would be a extrovert with business on her mind. Some one who wants to look great but still professional. A fan of the bizarre and unusual. Allthough it's a very niche category the collection would be aimed directly at that style of customer. 

After I figured out who would wear my collection i had to pick my final designs that where to be discussed in a design meeting. We critiqued each others work and all came to a decision as to which of our garments we would take into production. My final designs are below.

Here I was inspired by the skeletal structure and this garment would be a boxy boyfriend style shirt, with an appliqué skelliton. And the collar was to be printed with bone detail. 

All over trapunto, in the shape of skulls a shredded hem and ribbon covered puff ball sleeves. This was one of my favourites but the critics did not choose it.  

This garment was inspired buby fetal abnormalities (odd I know, but I'm just abit odd anyway) deep ruffles would surround the arms and hips emulating brains and two fetal style faces would create an interesting neckline. 

This design is a basic fitted shirt in white cotton with a printed rib cage and hip structure. This would be then topped with delicately folded organza to recreate a rib style all the way down the front, sewn in at the button stand. 

The heart was my muse for this desing and the veins in particular. An embroidered vein structure would be surrounded by a padded hem and collar. 

The straight jacket although not anatomy it crept it's way in under the thought of medical horrors. Here I aimed to make a quite horrible garment girly by adding a heavily pleated skirt and waist thinning illusion panels. 

Here is one of my most favorite designs and it was inspired by the inner workings of the hand and Mariano Fortuni pleated dresses. It would be loose on the body and have delicately pleated batwingsleeves with the internal workings of the hand embroiderd on to them. 

The specimen again clearly inspired by fetal specimens, this shape was taken from a  formaldehyde jar with a fetus in it. The fetus would be appliqué felt pieces to create depth, inspired by prada's SS14 collection.

This is the final desing that was choosen in the design meeting. The hem is Inspired by the shape of the heart and on the black panel princess seam there will be delicate veins and hearts embroiderd to it. 

Lazy hazy days: part three, Cirque Du Burlesque.

Above is my final design board complete with front and back view aswell as the matching spec drawings. The head and tail pieces are classed as accessories and don't need to be included in the specs. Growing lace and shooting stars finish my board. 

  

Keeping the theme alive with smoked feathers Swarovski crystals and three piece corsets.  

Here are the girls from left to right, look one is big top inspired and has power net and silk panels. Look two is for the trapeze or stage swing as it would flow delicately during the performance and last but not least look three delicate Devore silks remove to reveal a corset and panties encrusted with sapphires. 

 

Look one takes the ring by storm, inspired by the ringmaster a petticoat removes to show a intricate three piece corset. Look two ostrich feathers and  Swarovskis dominate the powernet. Look three reveling powernet covers all and with ruffled raw silk it's hard to resist.

The final design board. I felt as though it should wrap up the the collection. So I added my logo and more growing lace for a dainty effect. Look one agin a removable petticoat sows of a beautiful corset. Look two inspired by the costumes of old with intricate fish scales and racey tights. Almost Wonder Woman Style with the cape attached.  

Keep checking in to see what overall grade I achieve. Fingers crossed guys xoxo