These are the designs for my final collection. The innovative forms and shapes they take, compliment the way light penetrates the garment and how the various materials react with it.
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Blog-hopping
Curiosity (nosiness), got the better of me and as I browsed through other fashion students blogs I came across one in particular that caught my attention. Dora Kelemen is a young fashion designer, who graduated in 2009 as a textile designer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest. She categorizes her style as futuristic, experimental and eclectic. I decided to include her in my research as I think that aspects of her diploma collection really relate to my concept of various materials reacting with penetrative light. Her shapes/forms, colour scheme and use of clear plastics all have similar qualities to my own ideas and designs.
Class experimentation...
In groups, we each got given a seperate challenge as part of a class workshop. As our project is based on innovation design, the purpose of it was to introduce us to a new technique that could possibly be used within our projects and to widen our skills and knowledge. The deppari shirt is another form of continuous cutting.
Development boards..
For my development pages I combined elements of my concept pages and parts of my research with annotation to describe the journey that formulated my ideas. My designs are based on the way light reacts with different materials. Reflection can occur with lots of various materials, whether they are transparent, translucent or opaque. Each garment would react with light in a different way.
Onwards and Upwards..
I feel that I have moved on from my initial research of looking at various artists that touch upon my concepts and ideals. It has led me to look at other forms of reflection in terms of different reflective materials (transparent, translucent and opaque). My first concept boards I have helped me pull together ideas, and evolve them into sketches, doodles and possible design outcomes. Therefore my concept concentrates more on different ways that light passes through or bounces off materials.
Saturday, 27 November 2010
WOW.
I know this hasn't really got anything to do with my concepts, but I had to post about this artist, as his work is truly phenomenal. Julian Beever, is what you would call a 'pavement artist'. He creates portraits, reproduces old masters and also constructs scenes in which when viewed or photographed from a certain angle give an astonishing illusion of 3D.
Unbelievable!
Atton Conrad - light graffiti..
Atton Conrad is a London Photographer, he captured these images by combining models with dresses manfactured by light graffiti. The light produces exciting and an expressive sense of movement, while showing different textures, shapes and form!
I'm really attracted to these photographs and the style in which they are taken. I believe they coincide with my concept as the light looks reflective and gives off the impression that it is bouncing off a material.
Up and coming ...
I have recently discovered Michael Kampe, a 3rd year fashion student from Germany. He is a young budding fashion designer and his menswear collection is excellent and completely captivating! All pictures are from his own flickr account..
The photographs below were taken by Lucy McRae to capture Michael's 'Exploded View' collection. The shoot consisted of dangled deconstructed denim, freezing his fashion moments in one frame..
I really love the construction of the garments and the outlines and silhouettes they create.
A little more Hussein Chalayan...
Based upon my research and my concept boards, I looked more into Hussein Chalayan. I find that aspects of his work link to my own concepts. His use of innovative materials such as plastics and similiar materials, LED technology and use of architecture that he uses to inspire the structures of his garments, are great influences for my own work. His piece 'Before minus now' is a cloth that is made out of the same material that is used to create airplanes, which changes form by a control from a distance.
I believe his earlier work is most relevant to my own, due to the architectural qualities and use of plastics, however his 2007 collection 'Airborne' which features a dress encrusted with Swarovski crystals lit by 15,000+ flickering LED lights also ties in with my theme of reflection and lights bouncing off materials and shining through.
I think that these pictures are really beautiful and show off the collection as well as the video I have previously posted showing the making of.
I also looked at an interview with Chalayan on using LED technology within his collection, and took extracts from it, that I found relevant:
How did you go from engineering to fashion?
That was a little chain of events. At Philips [Research Labs] I worked for a research group which researched the future and projected technologies ten years ahead to see what kind of designs would develop. So we worked with wearable electronics, but that was more like a fringe interest of mine. After that I got to know Ron Arad and we collaborated for Swarovski. We made a quite famous chandelier called Lolita where you could present short messages. That was my first project in the world of design. It was quite successful from the start and it was published in lots of magazines and then I was in the middle of the design world. People got to know that I was able to deliver technical solutions. One project followed the other, and then there was this project with Hussein Chalayan.
How did you end up solving the problem of the video dress
The first thought was LEDs because I couldn’t imagine anything else and then I produced a lot of small circuits which we inserted underneath the tissue and which were able to show frequencies of light. It was like a big puzzle and all the pieces together showed a large image. Every little circuit was able to show only 4 pixels.
The fashion you create looks quite futuristic. Can you imagine people running around with LEDs on their backs in the future?
That’s a little bit difficult to predict. I can imagine that it will touch people that are really expressive and wear edgy clothes and jewelry already. But in daily life it might be a little impractical. Maybe you won’t be able to wash the clothes or something like that. There will be compromises you have to make with the technology.
I believe his earlier work is most relevant to my own, due to the architectural qualities and use of plastics, however his 2007 collection 'Airborne' which features a dress encrusted with Swarovski crystals lit by 15,000+ flickering LED lights also ties in with my theme of reflection and lights bouncing off materials and shining through.
I think that these pictures are really beautiful and show off the collection as well as the video I have previously posted showing the making of.
I also looked at an interview with Chalayan on using LED technology within his collection, and took extracts from it, that I found relevant:
How did you go from engineering to fashion?
That was a little chain of events. At Philips [Research Labs] I worked for a research group which researched the future and projected technologies ten years ahead to see what kind of designs would develop. So we worked with wearable electronics, but that was more like a fringe interest of mine. After that I got to know Ron Arad and we collaborated for Swarovski. We made a quite famous chandelier called Lolita where you could present short messages. That was my first project in the world of design. It was quite successful from the start and it was published in lots of magazines and then I was in the middle of the design world. People got to know that I was able to deliver technical solutions. One project followed the other, and then there was this project with Hussein Chalayan.
How did you end up solving the problem of the video dress
The first thought was LEDs because I couldn’t imagine anything else and then I produced a lot of small circuits which we inserted underneath the tissue and which were able to show frequencies of light. It was like a big puzzle and all the pieces together showed a large image. Every little circuit was able to show only 4 pixels.
The fashion you create looks quite futuristic. Can you imagine people running around with LEDs on their backs in the future?
That’s a little bit difficult to predict. I can imagine that it will touch people that are really expressive and wear edgy clothes and jewelry already. But in daily life it might be a little impractical. Maybe you won’t be able to wash the clothes or something like that. There will be compromises you have to make with the technology.
Thursday, 18 November 2010
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