Making and Developing off out fit 2 

Mood Board for outfit two exploring shibori methods and geometric repeat patterns, upon simple effortless garment shapes.

 Experimenting with garment shapes, working out the pattern on the mannequin creating a contrast between oversized silhouettes and con structured, fitted shapes.

Kimono 3/4 sleeve jacket 

Taking influence from Dolce and Gabbanna Autumn/Winter 2014 collection, using print and placement to create a direction and shapes to the garment instead of construction.

Grouping prints, texture and colours together. Taking influnced from the distressed surface texture photographed from Paris. Focusing on buildings such as the Sacre Coure and the Notra Dam. 

Experimenting with the processes of shibori with clips and stitch. Simple colour ways create a more successful print due to the bold strong contrast.

Final Print 

final print 

Juxpostiong between geometric prints and blended colour tones and textures.

Experimenting with introducing new colour, textures and prints 

Production of final garment 

Folding and pleating the fabric 

Clips used to secure fabric . Sleeves

Front and Back panels folded into rectangles then triangles clipped into place 

Dyed in Black Acid dye 

Garment two starting to come together. 

Vanners silk and lurex weaved fabric.

This fabric will be used as a jacket to support the shibori print. 

During the process of dying this fabric apart of the surface shrank creating crinkled effect, emphasisng surface texture and creating an intresting clash between a smooth silk fabric and a shiny, crinkle surface. 

Reworking Back into the dress to add a distessed, broken pattern which faded into the geometric pattern.

Finished Kimono Jacket 

this outfit focuses of creating a repeat surface pattern using shibori technical processes, in this case shibori with clips. Folding and pleating the fabric into squares and triangles. Leaving a subtle faded geometric repeat pattern, that blends and fades through a navy and white colour way. 

The garment itself was influenced from semester one, mastering shibori. Creating a overworked, distressed surface texture on luxurious draped fabric. Looking at the work of designers and brands such as All Saints and Sasa and Bida AW14 collection colour and print has been used to emphasis placement and direction on the surface of the fabric. Using simple garment shapes and adding construction methods such as tucks to create a unique and dramatic garment shape that distorts the natural flow of the print.

Moving away from small scale samples such as in semester one, the processes of folding had to be highly considered, as the fabric on a larger scale caused difficulty when clipping the fabric in place. Therefore the placement was slightly altered and adjusted in order to capture a successful flowing print. The mark making created from the clips fade in and out of focus creating a three dimensional texture and smoothing out the structured areas of the print into silky background, such as the hem. Bordering and drawing attention to the busy hectic symmetrical pattern and slowing fading into the background.

In contrast to the front and back panel print the slouch/fitted long sleeves continue with the geometric theme, this time altering the scale of the pattern and direction. Through continuing with the same processes and similar motif but using various directions and scales allow alternative texture and representations of placement on a subtle level. 

In over to emphasis a worn surface texture on a luxurious fabric I used Illuminating discharge to create a broken, fragile decorative pattern, that overlapped and faded into the bold geometric repeat. The process of illuminating discharge subtracts an element of colour out of the fabric and replaces it with another, in this case the paste reacted in a different way due to not mixing the paste correctly. Instead of subtracting and replacing a colour, a broken speckled print occurred , successfully distressing the fabric/ print. 

The garment itself was once again constructed through working out the pattern on  the mannequin. This allowed me to centre the pattern. I particularly like how the garment fades out, in and out again create movement, which is amplified when worn.

Continuing with the contrast between garments shapes, a relaxed, 3/4 sleeved kimono jacket was added to the outfit. This made the overall outfit look a lot more sophisticated and  modern. The Kimono itself was constructed from a silk and lurex weaved fabric which I re dyed. In the processes of re-dying the one layer of the fabric reacted causing the surface to crinkle. This accidental accident became quite a success, the crinkly emphasized the shiny lurex weave, responding and reflecting of light and create a dramatic texture. In contrast to the under layered silk dress the juxtaposition  of the two displayed arrange of texture working together.