Materials, silhouettes and symbols related to and associated with both man and woman and each echelon of the class system have fuelled my work this week.
I am pleased with the pages as I believe they include a range of media (drawing, collage, photography, graphics etc) and capitalise upon what I believe is my strongest talent- design development sketching.
I am pleased that I have included my development of work completed on the knit workshop- I decided to use machine appliqué to give similar effects to my knitted design details, when working on woven materials.
Pinstripe tailoring (a 'masculine' material) and yellow rubber (alluding to the domestication of the female) remain core areas for exploration. I intend to develop these ideas later in the project.
I love my introduction of the hoody as a symbol for the lower classes especially when it is contrasted with the upper class-style bow tie as its toggles. The notion of direct contrast is becoming a motif in my exploration; pink apron frills with double breasted pinstripe tailoring or sportswear style elastication replacing satin trim on dress trousers are examples of this. These contrasts can and should be developed further.
I enjoyed using 3D collage as a basis for design and will use this technique again. Beginning with a cut paper piece or textured sample often informs the scale of the final outcome and can give interesting results such as in the case of using printed dollar piece where much larger shoulder pieces arose than had I just sketched as opposed to using the collage technique.
The dollar bill and money imagery aim to allude to excess wealth for those at the top of the societal structures we create. I intend to develop this imagery in print and silhouette later in the process.
Quilting has become a fundamental aspect of my project. I came to the decision to use quilting because it aims to be a direct translation of the phrase 'rolling in it' into fashion. The colloquial phrase suggests extraordinary wealth and to me the puffed rolls of quilting become the rippling rolls of wealth held by the lucky elite. When combined with sharp, folding, money-inspired silhouettes an interesting aesthetic is created- one that I wish to further explore.
I am pleased with the pages as I believe they include a range of media (drawing, collage, photography, graphics etc) and capitalise upon what I believe is my strongest talent- design development sketching.
I am pleased that I have included my development of work completed on the knit workshop- I decided to use machine appliqué to give similar effects to my knitted design details, when working on woven materials.
Pinstripe tailoring (a 'masculine' material) and yellow rubber (alluding to the domestication of the female) remain core areas for exploration. I intend to develop these ideas later in the project.
I love my introduction of the hoody as a symbol for the lower classes especially when it is contrasted with the upper class-style bow tie as its toggles. The notion of direct contrast is becoming a motif in my exploration; pink apron frills with double breasted pinstripe tailoring or sportswear style elastication replacing satin trim on dress trousers are examples of this. These contrasts can and should be developed further.
I enjoyed using 3D collage as a basis for design and will use this technique again. Beginning with a cut paper piece or textured sample often informs the scale of the final outcome and can give interesting results such as in the case of using printed dollar piece where much larger shoulder pieces arose than had I just sketched as opposed to using the collage technique.
The dollar bill and money imagery aim to allude to excess wealth for those at the top of the societal structures we create. I intend to develop this imagery in print and silhouette later in the process.
Quilting has become a fundamental aspect of my project. I came to the decision to use quilting because it aims to be a direct translation of the phrase 'rolling in it' into fashion. The colloquial phrase suggests extraordinary wealth and to me the puffed rolls of quilting become the rippling rolls of wealth held by the lucky elite. When combined with sharp, folding, money-inspired silhouettes an interesting aesthetic is created- one that I wish to further explore.
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