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

Acidic, Silhouette and Slippy.

Here are some images I found during research of this project.

ACIDIC

Bubbling

Bleaching

Dripping

Rusting

Peeling

Disintegrating

Spilling

SILHOUETTE

Lining

Shading

Moving

Shaping

Lighting

SLIPPERY

Scales

Icing

Breaking

Spilling

Melting

Raining

-Sinéad

Sense Project

So today in college Mairéad had us sit in groups and brainstorm words for each individual sense... we then put all the sheets on the wall and picked our favourite word from each sense.. just a word that simply appealed yo us for no particular reason. my five words were:

Touch - Sticky

Smell - Damp

Sight - Silhouette

Hear - Ringing

Taste - Acidic

We then narrowed it down to three and the three I picked are Sticky, Silhouette and Acidic. After this we went back to our groups and went through each persons word and came up with action words that fit to these words and then we discussed it at as a class. Some of the words I found the most interesting are:

Slippery - Pouring, Spilling, Dropping, Icing, Raining, Throwing, Moving, Passing, Breaking.

Silhouette - Tracing, Stencilling, Printing, Shadowing, Lighting, Moving, Shaping.

Acidic - Bleaching, Spilling, Melting, Bubbling, Peeling, Erupting, Dissolving.

And now the fun starts. we start developing swatches that apply to these senses, we find artists/designers/scientists that have investigated these processes and then a garment (not particularly high fashion) that fits into our theme.

I really like this way of brainstorming, you give people ideas and I got alot of ideas from other people :)

-Sinéad

20. Darts

Darts are folds sewn into fabric to help provide a three-dimensional shape to a garment. They are frequently used in women's clothing to provide a fit that closely follows the shape of the wearer. They are essential to give the garment a specific shape usually to enhance the wearers figure.

1. Standard 4 darts

These types of darts are used on the back of garments to give them a tight fight around the body.

2. Arms Eye darts

These darts are around the arms of a garment to tighten any loose fabric around the arm and allow for movement.

3.  Centre Front darts

These darts are found at the front of the dress. they run down the torso of a dress to pin the fabric close to the body.

4. H Darts

These darts are ontop and below the waistline. The resemble the letter 'H'.

5. French Darts

This dart goes underneath the bust line, just above the waist. This is to give the chest more space.

6. Irregular darts

These are darts placed at random in different parts of the garments to create different shapes.

7.Princess Seam

Princess seams are long shaped seams which can be found on the front or back of a garment. They are usually used specifically in women's fashion, since princess seams are designed to make a garment fit smoothly and snugly. Many form fitting garments such as formal gowns are made with princess seams. As a general rule, princess seams are used instead of darts, although the two may sometimes be found on the same garment.

-Sinéad

19. Knotting

A knot is a method of fastening or securing linear material such as rope. It may consist of a length of one or several segments of rope, string, webbing, twine, strap or fabric interwoven such that the line can bind to itself or to some other object.

Knotted Details at Thakoon, Diane von Furstenberg, and Carolina Herrera.

Knotting detail manages to exude elegance in Sprig/Summer collections 2010.

Salasai Autumn/Winter 11'

Sarah Backlund

Sarah Backlund

Sarah Backlund creates very intricate designs using the fabric manipulation of knotting.

-Sinéad