3 Words | Evaluation

[Final Embroidery]

After previously deciding to go down the textiles route for this project, I explored various things I could embroider. Developing the bacon collages, and expanding my colour palettes. The above image shows one of my final textiles and the one I was happiest with. As these samples took about an hour to complete each one I started to do some simple designs from them. I was really annoyed at myself due to how late in the project I got into it. I felt the final pieces of work I came up with and produced were really strong and had I had more time, I would have loved to develop the samples into a sheet of fabric, perhaps to create a few garments from. I would have taken this final sample and enlarged it, perhaps scaled to a whole piece of fabric. To avoid time wasting, this could have been done onto a piece of blue fabric, the outline of the lines digitally printed on and then embroidery done on top. 

Using embroidery in garments is a skill I have never used before, and one I really enjoyed. Using the machine was actually extremely simple, once the pattern was designed and the colours were chosen there were endless possibilities of patterns that could be produced. I played around a lot on a great variety of fabrics, and although I didn't get a chance to try it I think that neoprene would hold a brilliant combination of digital print and embroidery. During the crit, the majority of my feedback was positive thoughts on my prints and embroidery samples, this was really helpful. A few people said that It was a very interesting take on Bacon's work and one they might not have come up with themselves, I was really pleased with this comment as what I took from the brief was to come up with a concept based on our words, but without copying them. 

When putting up my boards I realised that although I had a lot of development work, I didn't have any final designs. The illustrations above were the only hand drawn designs I produced for this project. Something I found extremely challenging in the project was taking my ideas into physical designs. Looking back at how the entire project went, I feel I should have taken my samples to the stand, or at least digitally put them into designs. I think this would have brought my designs to life, and also helped me move my project forward quicker. However, the designs produced in these drawings were quite a good example of how I would life the embroidery to be used, varying the scale in particular; ranging from intense detail to abstraction. Much like the work of Bacon himself. 

Something I tried to focus on improving in this project was my time management, and I am really disappointed in myself as I don't think I succeeded in this area. I think I could have taken my ideas and concepts much further. On the other hand, I did get a chance to focus on textiles, an area I haven't really covered and I think I really pushed each type of textile and created some great starting points. The group crit was great in this sense, as I got a chance to see how other people interpreted the words I used, and it was amazing at how different some people's outcomes were. I was especially interested in how people developed my word 'Francis Bacon', his work is so stylised I think it was developed in some really interesting ways. My favourite was one students work of digital printing onto silk, the colours were incredibly vibrant and the designs were clearly Bacon, even though the colours and patterns were original. The way she used her prints on her designs was completely different from mine, and it was really inspiring to see other ways of transferring textiles into designs. I was especially pleased with my colour combination, the clash was great, and I feel that it was important to combine colours that so clearly didn't go together as it reflected Bacon's sexuality. He spent his life fighting being gay and his religious background, using clashing colours was my way of explaining this internal fight. I used scale in the same way, mismatching the print scales with each design, sometimes overcrowding it and other times spreading out the print and leaving large sections of the designs blank.

3 Words | Textiles Development Cont.

For my embroidery, I decided to work into some of the textiles I produced yesterday, on top of the digital pritns. As I have never used the machine before, I had to have a full introduction to it; it turns out the machine is actually extremely simple to use, as long as the file isn't too complicated. As I have been getting more comfortable with the machine, I have gone from just a single colour to 4 different embroidery threads. I tried out a few different textiles to see which matched well with the embroidery, the machine found the faux leather quite difficult to deal with but the result was great, where-as the jersey was a little thin so the machine pulled at it causing rouching. I have found that Calico works best with the machine as it has a good tension, but there could be a better material, perhaps a cotton or denim.

To keep in theme and style of my previous work I have used the designs from the digital print, sometimes simplifying them slightly, and occasionally re-designing it to pick out shapes and colours that looked good. The main thread colours I shall keep to will be black, grey, orange and blue so to stay within my colour palette.

3 Words | Textiles Development

[layered textiles (faux silk and calico) 

made from the '3 words' workshop]

So today I decided to produce some samples from the digital prints I have been designing this past week. I printed of 5 A5 designs (twice) on the transfer paper, and then using a variety of materials from faux leather and suede to nylon to muslin, I used combinations of the prints to create an array of samples. The materials that the prints showed up the best on were the neoprene and the nylon jersey. Some other fabrics I found in the scraps didn't show up as well. this could be due to them being natural fabric (the ink won't stick to the fabric) or because my printed design was fading with use. I printed each design out twice as the more you use each paper to print the less colour is left, having each pattern twice meant I got double the use out of each print. Unfortunately, I didn't increase the contrast enough on some of the black and white images, and the prints came out a little lighter than I planned. This however, worked really well on some of the fabrics, but on others it hardly showed up at all.

I found a thick lace material that looked like a laser cut piece of nylon, once printed on it gave some great effects and I will experiment more with this material. Through either layering it on top of other materials, or embroidered into it to add more to the designs or enhance colours.

Tomorrow I have planned to go back to the prototyping and make up some embroidered textiles of the previous designs I have created, this will hopefully include (if it isn't too complicated) the Francis Bacon black and white piece, and the print design from the Bacon collage.
I would have loved to design a laser cutting of the Bacon face, however as I haven't used either illustrator nor the laser cutting machine, so within the time frame it will not be possible for me to design my own file. This is a skill I aim to learn, and will preferably teach myself over the Christmas holidays so that I can develop this project further in my own time.

3 Words | Design Ideas

As I have steered away from the physical making of a garment for this particular project, I am completely focusing on textiles. Hopefully throughout my sketchbook it will be clear through the illustrations of how the textiles will collaborate with a collection.

I want to focus my textiles on Bacon's life problems and the worldwide issues addressed in my visit to the Collection Museum; Homophobia, Fetishism and Sex. I want the textiles to remain feminine but also to show emotion like anger and chaos and confusion. The black designs in the textiles remind me of Picasso's Guernica, which represent's pain and struggle much like how Bacon's work is quite a clear reflection of his part experiences. The anger towards religion shown in his Pope series, and struggle with his sexuality seen in his phallic inspired paintings. This symbolic way of designing is an interesting angle to take, perhaps in my designs it can be used for example in the positioning of the patterns, or in the scale.

Photocopying some of my illustration and free drawn pieces, I have used the previous project's technique of illustrating through collage to create new designs as a development but also as ideas for final designs. Designing in this way is really useful as I can position the textile and scale it to size, something that would be replicable on real fabric if I were to make a garment. It also allows me to alter the colour and shape quickly, allowing more designs in the time. To design them I decided to negative one of the 'Bacon' collages, to create more blue hues in keeping with the colour palette. Selecting down 1 or 2 designs from each colour, I will pick out which aspects I think work best and design further from these, including more drawn illustration and fabric samples.

3 Words | Print Designs

[original images and collages]

[print designs]

I took the most exciting abstract work I have created so far and have turned them into a variety of print designs. I decided to keep away from the orange so much as it's used pretty much throughout Bacon's work and I felt it was too much of an obvious colour choice. However, the blue's from his Screaming Pope series have been transferred into my first design, along with some of the browns and a hint of orange. The black and white designs relate much more to my word 'mark' using expressive strokes and layering the illustrations together. As Bacon uses an abstraction of faces to create portraits, usually unrecognisable I have taken this technique and used my '3 minute quick sketch of each word' piece.

I am undecided on fabrics to print onto so I will use a large amount of different materials; from white leather/suede to cotton to mesh muslin. I want to find a fabric that matches the print well, but will also mesh well with embroidery or laser cutting. To layer up the textiles will also include using some very thin fabrics, like silk or a manmade replica. 

Late at Tate

As I could only visit one gallery on the first day of this project, I decided to visit the Tate Briton for a 'Late at Tate' discussion panel from the fashion designer Nazir Mahzar along with other various talents. The discussion was based on 'Fashion Vs Music'. Mainly discussing which influences which and whether they work together or work off each other. The relevance of music in the fashion world is clear, from the 80's new romantic phase to the skinhead's, the main question was what came first. "the chicken or the egg".

There was some really great modern art shown around the studio's as well as the panel going on, much of it was abstract sculpture but there was also a large amount of digital art. 

Although not directly related to my words, the geometry in the digital art, and exciting shapes and colours in the physical art will inspire my future work. I will bring all of these inspirations to my textiles, as I am not making a garment only samples the more variety of textiles I can produce the better. 

3 Words | Development

[collage made from Francis Bacon's paintings]

I feel that working into images by drawing or painting into them can produce shapes and silhouettes I might have not previously thought of. So, keeping in theme with my words I decided to 'mark' two of Francis Bacon's paintings through cutting them up, biro-ing into them and painting in lines. I wanted to connect the two so I used the shapes and transferred one into the other. I feel this worked really well and turned out to be quite an exciting piece. This way of collaging could turn into a beautiful print or embroidery. Over the weekend I will design a few prints for some digital printing that I will carry out on tuesday.

I want to design an embroidery pattern, but I do not have the software at home, meaning I will have to wait until I return next week to have a tutorial with the machine. Something I have also been considering was to use either the above collage or one of my word illustration pieces from the first day and transfer it into a laser-cutting file. This layered with prints and embroidery could create some really interesting textiles.

The colours in this collage will become my main colour palette. The orange and blue work in great contrast, chaotic with a hint of sadness; summing up Francis Bacon. I may tone down the colours so it is much less obviously Bacon; using hues of purple-blue's and yellow-oranges.

3 Words | Mannequin Work

Inspired by my three words; Francis Bacon, Mark and Chaotic, I aimed to use these in a similar way to the illustration exercises. We were given a piece of muslin, paper, calico and cloth so to keep with the freedom of the previous workshops, I didn't give myself time to think about what I wanted it to look like aesthetically. This worked well as I could drape and twist the fabrics how I liked, being given 10 minutes to make and draw up each sample helped the freedom. There wasn't enough time to make it 'pretty' which allowed me to focus on the shapes and details I could produce from each fabric. Layering and pinning them together, or simply using and manipulating each one individually.

I decided I didn't want to draw each one in full, but instead did rough sketchy drawings of details and shapes. Using colour and lines, much like the previous workshops. The muslin intrigued me the most, the textures it could produce simply through marking into the fabric itself. The effects created were quite beautiful. Much like Bacon's work, using something distorted and destroyed to create beauty. I tried to create feminine shapes with the fabrics, emphasizing necklines and volume either covering or revealing the bust. Much like the varied work from the Wellcome Collection, I played with the sexuality of the shapes and samples I produced.

3 Words | Illustration Freedom

To loosen up and be able to think outside the box, I participated in a day of casual illustration exercises. Although I feel my illustrations are quite strong, they are always very neat and look the same. From the previous design project, through illustrating with collage and mixed media, I decided to use the day to its full advantage and enjoy the freedom in drawing in this way. Much like life drawing each exercise was no longer than 5/10 minutes, meaning I didn't have time to correct each drawing, I simply had to just draw over the top. In reflection, I felt I did quite well during the day's exercises and the feedback I got from both tutors and other students was extremely positive.

The drawings each were meant to relate to our chosen words, meaning that everyone's would be different and every person was entitled to produce whatever work they wanted. It was really interesting seeing how other people interpret words, and design illustrations. This was very inspiring, and I feel I could develop how people made marks onto the page, or simple the resources they used. 

These workshops each focused on a certain part of illustration, for example shape, silhouette, colour and detail. I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed the shape and detail illustration workshop, as my illustrations are normally so neat and focused on the body and face, these weren't at all. The only detail you could add in was in the form of lines and marks. I felt this workshop really connected with my chosen words, the whole day was about mark making, and although it meant taking the word literally it produced some really exciting work.

Much of Bacon's work is distorted and dark, so ignoring his colour palette I tried to focus this energy into a variety of abstractions I produced that day. Keeping in mind his love of portrait paintings, I used the face as a base for my illustration work, not fully completely or re-organising the layout of the face and bodies I drew.

-Mark-              -Francis Bacon-            -Chaotic-

3 Words | Sexology

The Wellcome Collection - Institute of Sexology

[Above pictures taken from the guardian websites, 

no photography was allowed inside the exhibition]

[fortunately, I managed to take a few secret pictures]

On starting our new 2 week project named '3 Words' I decided that my museum of choice would be the Wellcome Collection; Institute of Sexology exhibition. It was unlike any of the other options, and I felt would produce the most interesting ideas. My three chosen words from the brief; Francis Bacon, Mark and Chaotic, fitted well into the mood and objects within this exhibition. Throughout the exhibition phallic emblems were prominent, however in the photographs and models the women seemed to be in power. Both Marie Stokes and Masters explored the concept of female empowerment in sex also. As I walked around the collections I made sure I read into every object listed, the link with sex into my words was triggered after watching the video from the Washington University girls only campus. The college girls included straight girls, gay girls, transgender and transsexual girls. Some who didn't identify between sex and gender, some that were religious. Something I picked up on was that the video was slightly dated, yet the girls views on sex and gender were very modern. 

My first word Francis Bacon, links extremely well with this concept. As a gay man condemned by his highly religious catholic parents, he turned to alcohol which ultimately killed him. LGBT rights are something that I have noticed are becoming much bigger, not only in London but in other Countries. About a month ago, during my visit to Paris I witnessed a gay pride protest in the back streets of Paris. I think this empowerment of identity is something that would be exciting to explore in Fashion. Jean-Paul Gaultier, a favourite designer of mine looks into body confidence and sexual empowerment. Perhaps looking into his muses and concepts could help influence how I decide to proceed with this project. However, I do not want to 'recreate' something that has already been done.

Much of the exhibition looked into fetishism and the science behind sex, many people kept charts, drew comics and photographed intimate parts of their lives. One photographer's work I was particularly drawn to was Zanele Muholi's collection of pictures of African lesbian women. Muholi left out images on the wall of the women who had died as a result of illness or circumstance related to their sexual choices. This concept of leaving negative spaces is something I wish to pursue in translating it into a fashion piece. It makes the viewer think what was meant to be there, what happened to leave the gap. Which brings me to my next word; 'mark'. The space left an invisable 'mark' of the consequences of being different in an unaccepting society. Much of how I believe Bacon must have felt during the majority of his short life. The photographs themselves were extremely beautiful, almost unedited. The image of a lesbian in many's minds is a specific image of a butch androgynous girl, I think this is what Muholi aimed to eradicate. Removing the stereotype and therefore removing pre-judgements.

The second exhibition I was meant to see was the 'Jack the Ripper' tour, however it wasn't open until 7.30 that evening. In this case I decided to visit a few of the places that are known to be locations of his murders to see what the area looked like now. This wasn't that helpful either, without a tour guide or someone that knows much of the History of East London, the places were just corner shops and clothes shops. Due to the time limit on this project, I would have prefered to return to do this tour when it was showing, but instead I have decided to change my second exhibition to the Tate Briton 'Late at Tate' discussion panel from Nazir Mahzar on 'Fashion Vs Music' on Friday. 

Deconstruct Reconstruct | Shoot

[Lookbook for garment, photographed by me]

Final three images

Model - Cornelia

Deconstruct Reconstruct | Stand Development

After careful consideration, I decided that the only way my designs could move forward was to start cutting up each individual garment to work them onto the stand together.

Deconstruct Reconstruct | Development

One way of developing the mannequin work to designs was to use the fabric in 2D form. I photocopied each item and cut out details and sections that I felt were interesting. Above are a few examples of the designs. Designing in this way was much easier than trying to draw from the mannequin, it produced new shapes and silhouettes and it also highlighted where details from the garments could be placed.

As well as cutting out the photocopied fabrics, I decided to change the colouring of the photocopies to see if it made certain details and shapes stand out more. The item I decided on doing this on was the stripped polo shirt and the suit trousers. Both produced completely different silhouettes and the colour change really enhanced certain details. Again I cut these out and placed them onto drawn illustrations. Although this wouldn't be possible in the time frame, it gave me ideas of manipulating the original fabrics, as well as changing the items around to create new items. The fabric that made the item could be altered, with bleach, dye and paint. The bleach could give a similar effect to the negative photocopy, producing bright whites and reversed colours.

I started drawing up designs from these collages. As all of my previous projects have been conceptual I decided to make something interesting in silhouette and detail, but also ready to wear. So instead of taking the full shapes of these collages, I focused on the details or individual shapes produced; for example, shoulders, collars or sleeves.

Deconstruct Reconstruct | Mannequin Work

Using the collection of garments I brought in, I started pinning, rolling and layering each item onto the mannequin. Using legs as sleeves, collars and added interest. Fastenings as necklines, detail and shoulders. Arms as collars and seam lines, and so on. Each item I made sure I worked with in at least 3 different ways, to produce as many good outcomes as I could.

When working on these in my sketchbook I decided to take inspiration from the collages and work onto different media, layering and drawing into each design. Sometimes designing straight from the mannequin, including some observational drawings alongside illustrations and shape tracing. This generated many more ideas on shape and silhouette, as well as which materials worked well in cohesion and what details and features of each fabrics were strongest. 

I found the more structured clothing like the suit trousers worked really well against the soft materials of the poloneck. The details on the fastenings of the suit trousers produced some really interesting shapes, and mixing these with the rolled up sleeves or collar produced from the top created some great contrasts. I wasn't so keen on the manipulation of the jeans, as it was more a fabrication than a new garment. Reviewing my experiments, I felt I pushed each item and produced some interesting garments. 

I feel this project doesn't need a 'concept' title as such, but instead I am going to remain free with how I work and the ideas produced. I shall continue to develop each aspect, through designing and mannequin work. Without an individual title, the garment will show a clear development from how each item began. 

Deconstruct Reconstruct | Collages

Commencing the introduction to the new project, I collected my old Vogues, Elles, and Teen Glamour to find images of body parts and clothes to mix up and match to new places. After making a collection of images from various books; including Maison Martin Margiela's book and 'Minimalism and Fashion' I mood boarded various ideas that I could carry through to my collages. 

Once I made 6 collages, mainly focusing on the details of the clothes, and the silhouettes you could create through changing where each item was places I decided they looked extremely plain. I wasn't as inspired as I hoped I would be so I decided to work into them.

Printing them onto tracing paper, some in colour and some in black and white, I started to cut out shapes, leave negative spaces and rotate them to place them on top of the original image. As well as this, I used acetate and a permanent marker to draw out a few main shapes and lines.

I was extremely happy with how they turned out, and after working in a few different mediums, I felt much more inspired. From these images, I will turn to the mannequin, alternating where garments could be places, and trying to recreate a few of the obscure body shapes I made in my collages. This technique of using collage with image manipulation has worked well, and one I hope to use in my later work and illustrations.

Deconstruct Reconstruct | New Project

We were just given a new project called 'Deconstruct Reconstruct' which again will only be over 2 weeks. Ahead of starting we were given the online handbook of this part of the project, and so I read and analysed which bits of the brief I needed to look into further, and what I would need to bring in, in advance.

Within the brief there was a variety of designers who use this deconstruct/reconstruct method within their own designs; something I really strongly agree with. The idea of sustainable fashion is a brilliant way of bringing about and modernising thing's people may already have, being inventive with minimal resources and also maintaining the environment. Particular favourites of mine who use these ideas include; Maison Martin Margiela, Comme des garcons and Jean-Paul Gaultier. Although they all use the concept in different ways, all have successfully positively presented it to work into their brand. Personally the designers style I will research into further will be Margiela and Gaultier.

The items I brought in were:
Suit trousers
Polo-neck Longsleeved top
Jeans
Lace dress
Sequinned dress

Purple strirrup sights

Bikini tops

To start my book off I collected various magazines and picked and cut out images, for both 'reconstruct' collages and some mood boards. Once I made the reconstruct collages, I photocopied them onto tracing paper and cut out main shapes, and worked over them onto both tracing paper and acetate. I feel this project focuses mainly on both detail and silhouette. So when working into the images I highlighted both detail and main shapes. I experimented with the figure as well as the clothing positions, allowing limbs and features to vary in size, and garments to be places wherever. To enhance these and take them further I will work from them as inspiration onto mannequin work and also in my illustrations.

Then moving onto a mannequin, I manipulated each garment to create new shapes and details. For example I used the jeans/suit trousers as a collar with a shoulder piece. The stiffness in the fabric allowed me to structure it freely around the neck, using the fastenings as collar detail and shape. Doing this allowed me to get a better feel for what I could do with my clothes to renovate them. I will continue this throughout the project, photographing and illustrating as I go.

Industry | Presentation Preparation

Kirsten's invite design:

Over the project, as well as individually challenging this brief and developing our own work we had to collaborate to present it collectively to the rest of the students. As my group got on so well, working together was really fun and easy. However, we wanted to ensure that we finished everything ready for presentations on Wednesday by Tuesday evening. We already had our garments, samples, photo-shoot and film ready. Instead of using a power-point I had the idea to make a Tumblr to display all the images we had collected and taken over the week, this fitted with our muse as she is a 'Tumblr famous' girl and this would be the way she would present. 

----> http://glorywalk.tumblr.com/

We decided as a group that although Meadham had never made advertising campaigns before we wanted to use some of our best images from the photoshoot for this purpose. We printed 4 images off A2 and cut them to the same size, we decided against labelling 'Meadham Kirchhoff' anywhere on them as the brand wouldn't do this, as they should be recognisable a name tag.

As well as these I made 'envelopes' for our invites out of the brightly coloured mesh, and we made goody bag's for the audience. These bags included various items that one could need on a 'night out'; a condom, tampon, shot glass, sweeties and child-like toy. They were also wrapped in the brightly coloured mesh to match them with our other work and samples.

We brainstormed our actual presentation and decided we didn't want to read off sheets as it flows badly and is less interesting to listen to so Emily rearranged the Tumblr in order, and we all decided which bits we were going to talk about. As an extra idea I decided we should all have party poppers to end our presentation as we were the last group of the day. Kirchhoff are well known for being shocking with their catwalks so Lena and I decided to wear two of the garments during the presentation. We decided to have two boards up during the presentation, one full of mine and Lena's textiles and Divines accessory samples. And the other with Emmanuella's images from the shoot. Alongside this we will project the Tumblr onto a screen and show the fashion film at the end.

That evening, I bullet pointed down what I needed to say in the presentation and roughly learnt it so I wouldn't be speaking off a sheet. I also sewed the envelopes and edited final images for the Tumblr. I am really sad this project is coming to an end, my group became really close and I am surprised at how much I enjoyed working in a team. I think our presentation will be very strong, and I am excited to give it tomorrow. 

Industry | Photoshoot

For our photo-shoot we decided we needed a white room in which we could set up our own backgrounds and props, as we couldn't get a studio room booked we decided to use the disabled toilet. This fitted extremely well with our theme of glorified sex, and the 'night before'. It related to our quote of 'not always knowing, and yet always searching'. Almost as if the drunkenness has given memory less, returning to the scene to find out what happened.

In spite of this, we wanted to ensure the photo-shoot was light hearted. So referring back to our main muse; Arvida Bystrom, we set the room up to be a playful studio, covered in shiny pink fabrics and feather bowers. Among the child-like set up, we included props that kept within our theme, such as condoms and underwear. Both Emanuella and I set up the room whilst Emily and Kirsten took care of make up and styling. Lena was our model.

Both Kirsten and I photographed the shoot on our own cameras, and I also took polaroids throughout to give another dynamic to the shoot. I filmed parts of the shoot so that the promotion girls; Emily and Kirsten could create a short fashion film to show in our presentation at the end.

Whilst shooting, through using both my camera and Kirsten's simultaneously this three panel 'flash' effect could be seen on Emanuella's phone. As a group we felt this really worked with our shoot and I decided to edit my pictures to look like these.

I think it was important that we all contributed and helped each other during the shoot, it brought us close together as a group and we all enjoyed the day. My initial worries of not being able to work within a group dynamic of people I hadn't spoken to before completely went away, and this showed through the final outcome of the images, and how well we clicked. Each person put effort into the shoot, we all came in on the Monday outside Uni timetable to get it completely, and brought in fabric, toys, make up, camera's and Lena brought her garments to style. She produced two outfits, alongside the fabric made up of our textiles. We also had various clothes to style these alongside. At the end of the day we had five complete outfits, which would be enough for an editorial, our aim.

Industry | Mannequin Work

Mannequin work

2 left; My samples. 2 right: Emanuella's samples.

After making various samples from knit and digital printing, I decided to bring back the child-like toy theme and make my own textile from quality street wrappers. This can be seen in the second mannequin picture.

Again this textile was not versatile, it took a long time to make and it was quite fragile. However, the concept of the patchwork and bright colour combination fitted well without our theme of 'Walk of Glory' and true to the quote 'rewound', as it was literally re joining used objects together. The patchwork effect gave a duvet feel to it, keeping in with the sexualised 'glory walk' idea.

Both Lena, Emanuella and I each took turns producing a range of ideas onto the mannequin, from both fabrics like mesh, wool and my textile, with photocopies and scans of previous textile samples. As our textiles were so elaborate, we decided it would be best to keep our garment pattern simple, so not to deflect the attention from the textile. Below, is a final fabric inspired by our textile samples combined.

Fabric made by Lena

Once we decided on our final textiles, I could start to work on a life size mannequin and therefore draw up some final designs in my sketchbook.