Trend: Tailoring

Here's another trend that I have chosen for my new brief. On my previous post I have already chosen one trend which was military inspired clothing and accessories.

These images are from a red carpet 2011 Hallyu Dream Concert which was held on October 3rd.

 T-ara

Eunjung

Jiyeon

 Beast

ZE:A

  These are from lookbook.nu I found some people wearing blazers and tailored clothes from the website.

That's it for now I will update you as soon as possible when I find more images and information for this trend. See you next time. ^_^

Trend: Military inspired

As part of the task that is on the brief that I am currently doing in college, I was asked to research trends for 2012 S/W collection. I am currently loving the military inspired clothing and accessories. These are some of the military inspired clothing that I found from music videos, celebrities wear and shops. 

Jessica Szohr

Balmain Military Jacket Fall 2009 Collection

Military jackets

Music Videos

Brown Eyed Girls- Sixth Sense

SNSD- Genie

Infinite- Before The Dawn

That is it for now. I update to you soon. ^_^

Draping experiment.

On my recent pattern cutting lesson I have experimented with draping using the stand. I have enjoyed this experiment and I am considering using this method in the future because it is easy and fun to play around the fabric. To create drape you need a fabric cut on the bias. The fabric is cut on the bias so that the fabric flows nicely when draping. Here are the results of this experiment.

First attempt.

Second attempt.

That's it for now. Thanks ^_^

Darts...Darts...Darts

From this lesson I have learnt how to model on the stand. I have experimented with darts on the stand. It was actually easy when you get use to it so I had more time to play around with the fabric. I you want to know how to make it, keep reading.

First darts experiment

Step 1- Take you fabric and pin it on your mannequin making sure that the grain line is parallel the centre front.

Step 2- Pin the fabric on the neckline, cut the excess fabric leaving 1cm seam allowance then snip the edges so that the fabric stays flat.

Step 3- Find the centre of the bust and start pinning the fabric upto the shoulder seam.

Step 4- Trim off the excess fabric on the shoulder seam leaving 1cm seam allowance.

Step 5- from the centre of the bust, pin the fabric down to the waist.

Step 6- Cut around the arm hole with 1cm seam allowance.

Last but not the least, Trim off the fabric around the side seam and the waist with 1cm seam allowance.

The image above is the finished darts that I made using this simple steps.

Second attempt.

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Sustainability

For one this new brief that I am currently doing in college involves researching sustainable materials, architecture, cars, furnitures and other things. I have found some artist/designers that use sustainable materials.

Alyce Santoro is a multi media conceptual and a sound artist. She has a background in marine biology and scientific illustration. She wanted to make art about science but for her the problem is that your not really allowed to get excited about the mystical part because it's not scientific. She works with recycled material and environmental themes runs through her work. She created the sonic fabric which is made out of audio tape and handwoven together.

What is Sonic Fabric?

SONIC FABRIC, the invention of sound and conceptual artist Alyce Santoro,

is a beautiful, audible, versatile textile woven from 50% polyester thread and 50% audiocassette tape recorded with intricate collages of sound. The sound compositions themselves are a kind of sonic fabric too – strange andintricate music made by weaving together unlikely combinations of looped and layered samples of found, created, and collected sounds.

SONIC FABRIC was originally intended for solely for use in installation

artworks based on the notion, common to both Buddhism and quantum physics, that at the most basic level, everything in the universe may consist of little more than vibration.

How is sonic fabric woven?


Individual cassette tapes have also been used to weave smaller batches of
yardage, some of which was hand loomed at a craft cooperative for Tibetan women
refugees in Nepal. I also use individual tapes for smaller projects, including
the collection of sound samples.

I will update you all if I find any more sustainable design, designer or artist.

Applying the Golden Ration.

As most of you might know I have been learning about the golden ratio in college, well this is how I would apply it to a garment. I focused on just placing the shapes that I have created using golden ration on one side of the mannequin. I also made 3D shape so that it's not too flat when looking at the detail. Here is what I've created from this lesson.

Continuing with Golden Ratio.

Today was the continuation of the golden ratio lesson that we had as a group yesterday. Today was a little more interesting because we got to design and create something using the golden ratio. I have experimented with scale to create different effect on the model. Here is what I have created using the golden ratio method.