Padding is generally used in fashion to give the illusion of a figure the model may not have... i.e wider shoulders, bigger hips. Padding is also used to give volume, shape and form in garments.
Here are some examples on how designers use padding in different ways:
Viktor and Rolf 'Dolls' 2008
Rei Kawakubo Fall 2010
Rei Kawakubo Fall 2010
Rihanna
Rihanna made an explosive start to the North American leg of her Last Girl On Earth world tour with this inflated padding on this dress.
Lady Gaga
We see padding in garments all over the red carpet lately... gives a deceiving silhouette to a persons figure.
A simple definition of Asymmetry in fashion is where one side of the body does not match the other. This is a technique seen everywhere in the fashion world
Alexander Mcqueen Spring Summer 2010
Alexander Mcqueen Fall 2009
Alexander McQueen Spring 2011
Alexander Mcqueen uses asymmetrical designs in the majority of his collects to create more organic and random shapes.
Versace Fall 2008
Versace Fall 2009
Asymmetry can be cause by simple manipulations as well as dramatic manipulations. Versace focused all the ruffles of the first dress to the right which creates asymmetry. Another thing Versace uses to put asymmetry in the designs is putting a slit up one side of the dress.
Christian Dior Spring/Summer 2012
Christian Dior Spring/Summer 2012
Christian Dior uses a single strap to create asymmetry in his designs.
Viktor and Rolf Spring/Summer 2010
Viktor and Rolf uses dramatic fabric manipulation to create asymmetric designs. These designs hit the runway in 2010 and in my opinion they tool asymmetry to a whole new level which work extremely well to create fascinating dresses.
He began designing his environmentally friendly dresses during a freelance fashion campaign. He needed something dramatic for a shoot so he took 42 pairs of Levi's 501's and made them into a dress. He has continued designing eco-fashion since. This is a good demonstration of recycling materials to make garments.
Val Hunt
Val Hunt’s creation using drink cans, bottle tops, carrier bags, and plastic bottles.
Singapore-British designer Ashley Isham
This Lady Gaga Dress is made from those sticky post-it notes.
Made popular by Madeleine Vionnet, this cut revolutionized fashion in the 1920s and 30s. By cutting fabric against the grain at a 45 degree angle, the bias cut effectively allows the fabric to fully stretch. The greatest benefit of this cut is that designers can choose which body parts (usually the curvy areas) to accentuate while maintaining a soft feminine drape to the fabric.
Bias Cut Dresses from the 1930's
Sleek, bias-cut dresses were worn for evening and formal occasions, and showed every curve, so girdles were used to slim down the hips.
Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen
One bias cut dress that has been all over the papers for the last year is the McQueen dress that Pippa Middleton wore at the royal wedding. This figure hugging dress shows off each one of her curves.
Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2012
Ralph Laurens Spring/Summer Collection 2012 is full of silky slithery bias cut dresses that show off the wearers figure.
Christopher Kane Fall 2012
The bias cut is used at the neck line of this dress.
Calvin Klein Spring 2012
Calvin Klein's bias cut dress grazed the runway this year. The Calvin Klein signature less is more gives this collection a sexy sophisticated feel to it.
This material draped around the body creates such and elegance. The soft, downy folds of duchess satin, the shoulder-obliterating silhouettes and the rumpled folds is one of Westwoods signature styles.
Alber Elbaz Spring 2010
Elbaz's Spring 2010 collection demonstrates the soft feminine lines that draping material over the body can create. Draping material is the opposite to tailoring... when material is draped it creates soft line which do not hug the body.
Junya Watanabe
I love Junya Watanabe's work, he creates not only amazing art forms but also innovative and wearable garments. Watanabe uses an abundance of material to for these soft line that wrap around the body.
"I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them." - Alexander McQueen
The term deconstruction has been used to describe the rebellion against traditional forms in art.
This is a video I came across on YouTube. Alexander McQueen first makes the suit before he tears it apart and deconstructs it. This is the clearest way to demonstrate the meaning of garment deconstruction.
Friedrich Gray 07
The thing i like about this is that most deconstructed garments on a runway are very striking but this is such a subtle way of garment deconstruction. It is simply deconstructed layers of fabric attached to a simple piece which make the garment look elegant.
John Galliano "deconstructed" gown for Dior
What i like about this garment is that lots of different materials in different colours and textured have been
combined to make this stunning dress. I like the way this dress doesn't fall straight down the body... it almost
wraps around the body.
Alison Gill: Deconstruction Fashion, 1998
Gill defines deconstruction in terms of fashion as garments that are unfinished, coming apart, recycled, transparent and grunge. Elements of her garment deconstruction include vintage linings sewn on the outside of clothes, exposed zippers and seams.
Martin Margiela 'Kite Tunic'
Martin Margiela
In this dress by Margiela different fabrics are weaved together and have the appearance that they have been teared and ripped apart. The long draping pieces of fabric teamed with the rough uneven texture of this dress show us a different type of fashion deconstruction then in the designers before.
Martin Margiela
Another type of garment deconstruction which is very commonly seen on the high-street is the deconstruction of knit.
Issey Miyake
This dress by Issey Miyake show how deconstructed gaerments can still have clean lines and that is not all about tears, rips and slashes. The exposed open zips and the fabric wrapping around to keep the zips open is a very controlled way of deconstruction. It is still breaking the 'Fashion Rules' by exposing seams and zips.
Classic examples of tailoring.. all the clothes fitting the models requirements. Clean cut lines hugging the models figure.
Peter Hidalgo Fall/Winter 2009
The nice thing about this six piece collection is that all of the lines of the clothes are perfectly tailored to give nice clean lines and a feel of sophistication. They fit all of the models perfectly.
Kris Van Assche Fall 2012
Kris Van Assche Fall 2012
Kris Van Assche Fall 2012
The thing that jumped at me about this collection is the mixture of contemporary designs and tailoring. This is probably my favourite collection to come across while researching tailoring. The whole collection gives off a mood of uniforms (army, minor, labourers). AMAZING collection.
Emilio's Pucci Fall/Winter 12/13 collection is filled with garments that have been tailored to the models requirements. In this tightly structured collection the garments hold slashes on the material which gives the collection a little punk edge.
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