Fashion Elective

So Ive spent the last two weeks in the fashion world! Quite a change from ceramics but just as fun! I liked the challenge of working with shapes trying to directly inspire my final designs. Sometimes being restricted makes my ideas all the more inventive.

I could feel myself getting into the process of designing as the weeks went by. I can see the difference myself between the beginning and the finish of my sketchbook. I began to grow more comfortable with designing for the body and gradually developed my own style. The two weeks were challenging but I feel that I learned a lot, both about fashion practices and about my own capabilities.

Here are some of my initial paper shapes fashioned into design details on a menequin. I prefered working on the manequin to working in my sketchbook because of the 3D element. I found it easier to illustrate my ideas using paper and material rather than drawing.

Would you ever believe these shapes started out like as parts of teapots!