Textiles A2

Since I am a textiles student wanting to take a fashion route, I have been focussing on Bridal Fashion using lace and florals throughout my sketchbook. My sketchbook has been used as a build up to my final piece of a bridal inspired dress, being made in January. I wanted to show how I am focussing on a fashion element to my textiles work.

Inspirations

There is no decade I am influenced by more than the 60s. Shift dresses and bold statement blocked colours have inspired me to create my own 60s inspired fashion drawings. (Influences from Dolce & Gabbana/The Kooples/own influences)

Being a textiles student I wanted to show a recent piece I made inspired by lace using a mixture of techniques to create different doily's. This also shows I am experienced with the sewing machine.

Techniques I have used:

• Fusing/trapping lace and mixed fabrics
• Ink and bleach
• Cut out
• Stitch and Slash

I began furthered research of summer 2013 fashions by flicking through the July issue of Vogue, and I could see a day and night trend within the colour palette. So I got inspiration, and created my own Summer 2013 looks with the same palette used by Vogue.

To show my range of techniques and skills, I have previously used Photoshop and QuarkXpress for my AS media studies. This shows that I am flexible with not only the practical aspects of design, but also technical. Both examples show a music magazine front cover and contents page I had to create for an indie music magazine.

Practise

To build up my collection of sketches and mannequins for fashion ideas, I wanted to get a rough idea of a starting point in the type of fashions I am interested in, so created a practice drawing of Alexa Chung's cover from Stylist Magazine. Additionally, I wanted to practice my shading and sketching of still life imagery, focussing on Marc Jacobs' Perfume bottle Daisy.

Work Experience: Alison Appleton Summer 13

I spent 4 days at Alison Appleton's textile studio to help with her latest tea towel range, and to also get experience that can relate to fashion. I looked up latest fashions/trends/colours in order to design my own ceramic tea cup and coaster using clay sculpturing. This also involved designing new ideas for her collection.