My design ideas and design process

My design ideas and process ideas 

My design idea and design process

I am looking at folk embroidery and am going to incorporate this into the front of my shirt dress. For my collection i will have three pieces i will have a shirt dress a long shirt and a short t shirt length shirt all will be the same colour one will have embroidered cuffs, one will be plain orange and one will have embroidered front chest panels. To create all three shirts i will pull the three patterns from the longest shirt pattern this will reduce the amount of pattern paper i will use and save me tracing out the same pattern three times. I am going to embroider using beads, gold thread and sequin's. I am using a monochromatic colour palette with a gold accent; i will use orange black white and gold materials to create my final pieces.

Sunny Todd Print Workshop

Sunny Todd Print Workshop

I took acetate and cut out a heart that I drew quickly so that my design wasn't perfect and instead abit imperfect. I then mixed red and white to create pink. I pressed a sponge into the acrylic pressing onto fabric using the stencil I made to create a polka dot effect, this turned out much better than I was expecting. This was inspired by Sunny Todd's work i placed the stencil in a repeated pattern like Sunny does in his prints. 

Creating garments without a pattern

Creating garments without a pattern

I took two oblongs and sewed them together with the new seam in the back. i dropped the oblong onto my manaquine and calculated roughly where to cut out my arm holes. i made a template out of cardboard for the armholes and traced and cut the armholes where marked on the oblong. I slipped it onto the mannequin and crossed the two sides at the front and I tied them into a bow at the back. I then pinned on some sequins to see what it would look like if it was embroidered with sequins along the neckline.

London Fashion Week Artists and Colour Palettes

Angel Chen 
Complimentary and Monochromatic

  

Caitlin Charles Jones 
Analogous and Monochromatic
  

Caine London
Split Complimentary and Monochromatic
    

Sunny Todd

Sunny Todd

Royal College of Art graduate Sunny Todd established ‘Sunny Todd Prints’ with his wife Emma in 2013; they work from their studio in Hereford shire to produce patterns. Clean, bold and graphic, designs are confidently and obsessively drawn with pen, scissors and scalpel. Scale is explored, reducing and exaggerating to experiment with composition and the impact of the repeat. Every shape is drawn and cut by hand; computers are not used in the design process. 

My Final Design

                                              

My Final Design 

My Final Design is a pair of trousers that fall under a skirt both attached at the waist with a waist band. The skirt is made from a pink transparent tulle and the trousers are made out of a heavy cotton. My design was inspired by winter fall collections, Westwood's use of mixed prints and Street style. My model will be wearing my final design down the catwalk at the Wilson in Cheltenham this month, I will pair my creation with a black crop top or jumper a check shirt tied around the waist a pair of bright coloured fluffy socks and chunky black trainers.

Couture and Haute Couture

                  Couture and haute couture

Couture and haute couture clothing is clothing that has been made and measured to fit often one person and often celebrities. The quality of couture clothing is very high the materials and time put into making the garments are all to a very high quality. Couture is hand made from start to finish. Couture clothing is made to fit one person there for the piece of clothing is made to fit the client perfectly and so it wouldn't fit anyone else quite as well. The word couture goes back as far as the 1700s.

                                 Couture designers

                                             Elie Saab 

Saab was born on the 4th of July 1964, and has dedicated his spring 2015 collection to his past. Saab is one of the most consistent couturiers.

Dior

Founded in 1946 by designer Christian Dior. The accessories from the Dior haute couture spring-summer 2015 collection all have a futuristic theme, as well as clear block heals and a lot of them extended very far up the leg. 

                                             Valentino

Valentino is an Italian fashion designer who was born on 11th May 1932 his full name is Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani.Valentino became interested in fashion while in primary school and after school found an apprenticeship with Jean Dessès where he helped Countess Jacqueline de Ribes sketch her dress ideas.In 1960 Valentino left Paris and opened a fashion house in Rome.

Mary Katrantzou Digital Print Fashion Designer

Mary Katrantzou

Fashion designer Mary Katrantzou was born in Greece in 1983 and attended Rhode Island School of Design and Central St.Martins. Mary does a lot of work using digital print.
She uses lots of different bold prints and also combines prints as well as focusing on feminine silhouettes and how print can change the shape of a women's body.
She had her first ready to wear collection at London fashion week in spring summer 2009.
Some of her collections have been based on perfume bottles artisan blown glass and interior objects of art. I was inspired by Mary's use of vibrant colour large and detailed prints and her individuality.