fashion with a purpose??

Along with my material sample & pictures of modelling on the stand I thought I'd upload some of my rough sketches :) which obviously aren't that great, but are OK as are just rough idea sketches!!! I'm liking the one in the middle most I think so I'm gonna carry on doing designs and hopefully end up with one I really like! (also the line through the middle is actually meant to be there...is text but is too small to see; I'm playing with the idea of having my manifesto speech behind my final illustrations, but I need to work out how to do this without taking the attention away from the clothing!)

Modelling on the stand for design inspiration

Fabric samples for design project

this is a material sample for my design project which is based on the theme of 'the darker side of fairytales'. This is one of my favourite samples, so I'm planning on using it in my final design, possibly as the top of the dress.

catch up blog #3!

OK so it seems this year I'm slowly beginning to slack on the blogging front! everything is getting more hectic and more busy! But I'm still really enjoying all the different projects!

Fashion Design
designing so far is going pretty well, but I feel I need to work more on samples and build more on my research, to show my thought pattern. I really cant wait to start making the garment to see what I end up with!!!

Buying and Merchandising
Ok so far so good on the buying and merchandising front, we recently got set a new project, of which we have to pick a fashion clothing store (-I chose 'Zara') to write a report on...I find the whole world surronding buying and merchandising really interesting but I feel I find that I dont fully understand everything to do with it, but hopefully this will come with time!

Illustration
I'm really enjoying doing my illustrations by hand for the design project as I think slowly but surely my own style of illustration is coming through and I'm finding it much easier to produce them.
However I'm still finding illustrator on the computers difficult to use, I mean I know the basics but I'm no whizz yet!....but as they say 'practise makes perfect' so thats what I'll do!

Lectra

So far we have had two lessons on Lectra.. we have created our patterns ready to print out next lesson (I'll add a screen print of my pattern on Friday) The whole process again was pretty simple and I seem to be catching on much quicker then I expected! We just had to mirror each pattern, change sizes, add seam line and name each piece!

2010 update....

Ok so finally I have pretty much finished doing my research...so have moved onto doing my designs, although at the moment I am struggling slightly to come up with designs (we have to have 100!) I am just going to keep what i have already done and then keep improving them until i end up with a design that I really like! so yeah I am overall really enjoying this project so far :) and cant wait to start making!

We have also started 'buying and merchandising' which I have found really interesting, theres so much I didn't know about the industry!

2010 so far....

Over the Christmas holidays I began researching the new 'Manifesto' project...I pretty much covered all the research over the holidays, but didn't start my sketch book, so this was to be done when I got back to uni! So far the project is going reasonably well and I am pretty sure I want to create something from the darker side of fairy tales, so maybe I will choose a character from Alice in wonderland for instance the white witch and I will base my Manifesto and designs on this...

Also on another note the few who are going to London Fashion week have heard back and found out where abouts we're all working, I'm really happy to be working backstage, but am very scared!!!! is less then a month away now!!!