Finshed Garment

So finally my shoulder piece is complete :)

 - Sinéad

I constructed my garment out of leatherette as it gives a nice solid structure to the garment. My colour scheme is simply black and white.

Silhouette Sculpture Complete...

Here's some photos of my finished sculpture... I'm planning on pulling some shapes from these sculpture photos.

I think the shapes i pull from the photos are going to be both geometric shapes from the buildings and very natural shapes from the trees.

I think this sculpture gives me a good contrast of geometric and natural shapes.

-Sinéad

Shadows of my sculpture...

So before my silhouette sculpture is finished I decided to mess around with the ideas of light and shadows.

I added trees into the silhouette to add more designs. I think the trees make cool shapes to pull shapes from.

This is the first step of my sculpture and I think it turned out as a success. My sculpture has alot of photography included in it.

-Sinéad

Moodboards

1. Silhouette - For this board I picked silhouette pictures that all have the same tones of grey in them. I picked an Alexander McQueen design as alot of his garments change the silhouette of the human figure. This is my favourite board out of the three of them and I think this will be the theme i go with for my project.

2. Acidic- For this board I bleached back paper for the background to give of an acidic feel. I picked the topshop garment as i think it fits in with my mood board the best.

3. Slippy- For this board I mixed blue and black latex  and poured them down a sheet of white paper to give off the idea of slipping. My swatch is blue fabric dipped in wax, when it dried I crumpled it into a ball, i then poured layers of wax on the swatch.

-Sinéad

Slippery Garment

I have 2 slippery garments to pick from.. one high fashion garment... and the other a very un fashionable garment...

Wetsuits - An obvious one..

Gareth Pugh

I picked this garment as Pugh uses shiny slippery leather and the design on the body of the dress reminds me of the scales I was researching earlier this week.

-Sinéad

Silhouette Garment

Here's my research on silhouette garments...

Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen

Autumn/Winter 1997/1998

Alexander McQueen

Zoe Bradly

Zoe Bradly

-Sinéad

Acidic Garment

So I was researching a garment that fits in with my theme and these are the ones I came across...

American Retro

Bleach Dress

Hussein Chalayan

 Spring/Summer 2007

 Bubble Dress

Karen Walker

Spring/Summer 2011

Tye Dye Dress

Mary Meyer

Bleach Dress

Topshop

Spring/Summer 2011

Viktor & Rolf

Spring/Summer 2010

I'm still not sure which one to use for my acidic mood board but at least I have a few to choose from and see which one fits in the best.

- Sinéad

Swatches

Here are some of my sample swatches for my mood boards. I'm gonna put 2 or 3 together to make my final swatch.

Acidic - Bleached Black fabric

Acidic - Bleach fabric , random patterns have little control over the bleach.

Acidic - Bleach crepe paper.. dissolves as the bleach weakens the paper.

Acidic - Wax on fabric 

Acidic - Burnt fabric

Acidic - Burnt netting over black plastic

Acidic - Burning fabric that has a high content of plastic... melts more then it burns.

Silhouette - Black fabric on netting to resemble silhouettes

Silhouette - of skyline

Silhouette - just illustrating the outlines of silhouettes

Slippery - Blue material dipped in wax.. once dried I crunched it to resemble breaking of glass.

Slippery - White fabric dipped in wax and wax broken to resemble ice

Slippery - Layers of wax on fabric to resemble spilling

Slippery -Layers of wax from the side

Slippery - To resemble fish scales. put fabric over wire mesh and rubbed charcoal over it to resemble this pattern.

-Sinéad