Design pages...

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.

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.

( http://www.dorakelemen.blogspot.com/)

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.

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.