Fashion & Textiles - final piece

3rd October

For this task I had to create my main piece using only paper and the techniques I practised on the pervious days.

 I firstly made the tear drop shapes for the top part of the dress

 To support the dress onto the body I used a long piece of paper that would wrap round the body the main part of the dress I stuck onto it placing it in the right area so that it would look accurate once it was on the model. 

I used the technique from one of the skirts (on the 1st of October) taping the ends to the top of the strip so that they create more volume to the dress and when walking would look brilliant as the indival pieces would move gracefully through the air.

As I wanted to make this dress different from other dresses I didn't use the skirt technique on the other side instead this side I used the same technique as the top half of the dress.

For the white pieces of paper I made paper cut outs that would be applied to outline the curve of the dress, for the belt I cut a strip of paper out folded it in half and cut slits through it, once I unfolded the paper I stuck he two ends together so that it would create a circular shape making a belt like shape. for the bust area I used origami (snowflakes) cutting out some of that pattern to add on to it so that it creates a unique appearance.

This is what the final outcome looked like.

We then had to display our designs by walking down a cat walk...

For this dress I used the inspiration of a dress from brayola.com which was a wedding dress, I thought today was successful as I used the technies I learnt from the previous days and incorporated them into my new designs. I will be using these technies in future design as there is a varity of designs I can adapt to these samples. In someways it was challenging to get from an idea being a design to actually making it as you need to consider measurements of the model making the garment accurate and suitable to wear.

Isabella Blow

Tracey Emin

Bora Akus (childhood innocence + memories)

Bora Akus is a Turkish designer. His work is based on dreams and nightmares by the use of colour in my opinion the colour orange is perhaps used for fire or he'll within a 'nightmare'.The thrash 'Thier Beauty could not never been painted had they been seen for real' this relates to the film Blade Runner as you need to see something for real before believing it is.

Bora Akus [online] available at https://lux-fix.com/designers/bora-aksu