As we have been told so far on this course, fashion is extremely fast pace. From designing to production, the intensity is apparent. Therefore to keeping up with the pace of being able to produce hundreds of designs in a short amount of time is vital. In this workshop, we were given a whole day to draw up over 150 designs; we started by photographing 2-4 details on items of clothing of classmates. (My 3 are photographed above) From these we had to translate them into shapes and simplified silhouettes. From our shapes we designed seams, pockets, sleeves and collars, and from those we designed tops, trousers, skirts, jackets and coats. And finally put together and re-drew 5 final detailed outfit designs. The day went very quickly and I really enjoyed it, it can normally take me 15 minutes alone to design 1 outfit, so this learning process was so useful to me and I learnt a lot about my own ability as well as technique on how to speed up. Idea's can flow into my head as quickly as I'll forget about them, but with this way of designing I am now able to get them down before I've forgotten them.
At first the quick pace drawing was difficult, this was mainly due to my 'fine art' background, I was making everything too sketchy and severely slowed me down. It surprised me how quickly I was able to adapt my style of drawing, and this showed me that I can adapt for speed which is an extremely useful skill, especially in the fast paced fashion world.
Being able to produce hundreds of designs quickly means that when I narrow them down to a final 'collection' gives much more choice, and a better range is produced. It also means that referring back to the original to adapt and improve it is easy as its in its simplest form.
The workshop began by looking around the room and picking other peoples garments that we liked; shape, silhouette and structure. Once we picked these, we used them as quick inspiration for our most basic sketches. From these we developed them into different parts of a garment, which included; seams, sleeves, collars et al. By the end of the first workshop, I had designed over 250 sketches which I then used in the follow up. From the first workshop we weren't meant to add colour or annotations to the drawings as we added these in the follow-up workshop a few days after. For the second workshop, we could use our quick-sketch designs, and final designs along with any others we had done to create a complete new set of designs, but this time in the form of a fashion illustration, technical breakdown of the various items and colour palette, with annotations of seaming, colour, and fabrics. This was based on Donna Karan's "Seven Easy Pieces" which was a collection of 7 foundation and outerwear that could be mixed and matched to create a comprehensive woman's wardrobe. By separating these two tasks it allowed me to not worry about colour or pattern of the clothing as I was designing it, which made the process much quicker and was less complicated.
I felt this practice helped not only my time per sketch, but also the detail on making the designs easier to understand. Overall it was extremely productive day and It's a skill that I will use and improve throughout my career.
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