During
the Fashion course I have learnt a lot, At the start of the course we focused
on fashion through the years and how style has changed and why certain fashion
trends occurred, We’ve looked at contemporary fashion and designers such as
issey miyake and historical European fashion. I also looked at designers like
Mary Quant and her influence on the mini skirt, and Christian Dior’s full
skirts taking advantage of the increased fabric quantities, and looked into research
on contemporary designers Issey Miyake and Dion Lee.
Practical
work we starting doing at the start of the course included using an industrial
machine, setting the machine up, using an over locker, and practicing curved
seams and corners. These practical workshops have helped me gain not only
knowledge but also confidence when using the machines, enabling me to use them
to better the quality of the garments I’ll come to make.
After
researching eras and designers we had to choose something that inspired us and
or our style/fashion preference. I chose the 1970/80s fashion, as I love the
style of the era, I love the bold colours, jumpsuits, and wacky prints. I
focused on celebrity fashion influences in the 70s including Dolly Parton. I
gathered photos of her in different jumpsuits and took parts of each jumpsuit I
liked for example the wide leg/bell bottoms and applied it to my own designs,
either drawn up or on illustrator.
Aside
from celebrity influence I also used photos of my family in the 70s/80s including
my nans, mum and auntie to get a wider range of fashion worn in this era. My
family photos gave me more correct knowledge of the year I was worn and allowed
ne to connect more to the photos, fashion and style of garments. I took from
these photos an understanding of 70s fashion, patterns, and colours and as able
to use some of them in designing my own jumpsuit.
After
this project we moved on to the skirt project. This project involved us having
to research architecture we were interested in enabling us to use parts to
include in our skirts, whether it is the form, size colours or design. I
researched some interesting buildings and chose a building with allot of lines,
these lines where mostly on the ceiling linking over one another to represent a
sun shape. I chose then to link my skirt to the shape of the sun being them
main detail. We then researched
fastenings, and colours which I chose to use pink, blue and yellow for a
spring/summer vibe.
