Detail | Final Designs

[Final Designs]

As stated in the previous post, I decided to keep in theme with the collaging into my designing. I felt it was really successful, and as it was from stand work I knew it was possible to make therefore helping the designs become more realistic. To go with these I designed a basic flat drawing which could easily be adapted to create the finals. 

Using my earlier colour palette, I enhanced it to make it brighter but kept to the basic colours of blue, purple, pink and yellow. Royal colours, if you will. As it was daywear we were designing for, I decided on outerwear. Embellished jackets and coats as a final 'collection'. I really liked how these turned out and with more time and pattern cutting help I would have loved to have been able to make one. The detailing I felt was really experimental, but also quite obviously Edwardian which was what I was going for. The buttoning detail was able to push really far as it was such a simple detail and I enjoyed placing that on various places in both the stand work and in designing. If I could go back and add in things, I would include some button sampling work as I know it is possible to do on a sewing machine, I would also get some button samples. I was happy with my amount of stand work, I think I created far enough to be able to produce good designs that were make-able but also interesting. 

I absolutely loved this project, possibly my favourite short project to date. Unfortunately I would have loved more time but this was not an option. In the time we were given, I feel I produced a good amount with developed designs. I think my illustrations have greatly improved since the beginning of the project and my creativity within standwork has also improved. With this project running alongside all the interviews and portfolio reviews, I felt I wasn't able to handle balancing the two and could have produced more work if they were not at the same time. This is a problem I need to handle better as it will prepare me for industry. However, I am pleased with how it turned out.