Fitted Jacket feedback

So far I am in the 60-65 (2:1) mark band, which I was really pleased with and from the feedback I can take this on board and work it all into my Design Manual to boost my grades up hopefully! Basically most of what was wrong with my Jacket booklet was simple things that will be easy to bear in mind next time, for instance cutting fabric samples evenly, making my own notes longer, printing off the right hand outs etc etc.

DRAPING...DAY ONE

Sooo after four weeks of intense and very strict fitted jacket making we are now free to run and drape as we wish! I was verrry nervous about starting draping today as I have gotten so used to following instructions to a T so it was a shock to then go off and be able to create pretty much whatever we wanted! I actually really enjoyed draping even though not all of my drapes worked out how I hoped they would and I have draped and re-draped so many times I'm sure my hands are going to fall off! At the end of the day I had one particular drape of which I preferred most, so tomorrow I am going to spend the day possibly re-draping this (from a photograph) to perfect it and then move on and make a pattern and RE-drape again to see if it all fits together well!

Loveee the back of this- would very much like to change the back of my current final drape to this as I think there is alot more detail going on

I really liked how the material hung when draped like this- May try to incorporate into final drape!

Possible final drape- needs working into however ^

^ Back of the final drape- again needs to be worked on but I am overall pleased with the progress

I can definitely see myself draping for my final collection as I found the whole process of trying out different drapes to get designs really helpful as opposed to just flat designing in a sketch book.



RE-front cover

Possible new Design Manual front cover...I worked into my original, adding a face, hair etc and changing the colours and font. I much prefer this cover and think its improved slightly!

Lanvin...I am in love with your clothes.

Learning agreement results...

This morning we were given our results for the Learning agreement. I got 63; which equals out to be a 2:1. I was very pleased with this and felt that the feedback written will help next time in possibly boosting the mark to a 1st :-)

Garment Technology

On Friday we had our first lesson with Anya. She introduced herself and told us about some of the work she has done, which I found very awe-inspiring. I would like to have achieved such accomplishments by the time I'm her age. We then had to introduce ourselves telling her Why fashion? Where do I see myself in five years? What is my dream job? and finally what is the health of the fashion industry?

• I chose fashion because I love the whole process from designing and having the flat drawings, to having the pattern pieces to finally having a 3d garment. Another reason why I chose fashion is because I'd like the capability of making people feel good in their clothes, designs that could flatter everyone.
• My dream job would to be designing clothes for high street stores and eventually working my way up to maybe doing some designing for fashion houses, but who knows where five years will take me!
• With the health of the fashion industry I think all the high street shops are becoming too similar, trying to be like each other and not aiming their clothing at their target customer but instead trying to be other shops. We definitely need more individuality.

We then went to castle point to have a look at the different fashion shops window displays, how the shop was layed out and where the clothing was made. I found the lesson very interesting and didn't get bored as she had such a different approach to teaching.

Inspired by Christina Lovery

Possible Illustration to go in Manual, I liked the idea of using magazine cut outs for the parts of the Illustration I found difficult to draw (the legs for example!) and the overall look has turned out quite well, although before putting into the manual I will edit the drawing in Photoshop. I think I should change the arms, as from uploading the image I can see they are out of proportion to the body...