Catch up!

So I was supposed to be posting about the recent findings on stores that have taken my interest but I'm currently not at home and staying at friends flat for a few days. It just so happens at this very moment that I have managed to left all of my information at home... Oops! Clever me, eh?

So in the mean time it seems that it is only fair to mention what I have been up to recently.

Well since the last post...

On the 14th of may I went to Florence Italy, this was offered by the college. I was able to visit a leather school and a museum which contained a lot of shoes... SO MANY SHOES!

I also had the opportunity to visit a fashion university but I decided to stay back at the hotel because my feet were so swollen, but apparently it was phenomenal.

Florence was such a beautiful place, the culture, the high range stores and the streets. In our spare time I walked around with a few people and we walked all over from the hotel to the Dumo Cathedral to high range stores to little ice cream store with the most tastiest ice cream ever! Walking around we noticed that the stores changed all the time, at least twice a day. It is one of the places where I would be able to visit.

On this trip I was able to create a short Vlog which I will be posting soon...

I'll be sharing some pictures as well.

So what else has been happening???

I have now finished my first year on my fashion fDa course. Which means I only have one year left, I'm excited but nervous at the same time but I'm sure I'll manage. I've met some interesting people, learned so many many things and gain a lot of skills that I know will come in handy. But I don't entirely know what root I'm wanting to go down, which is unfortunate.

But I do have a few ideas on what I may be wanting to do...

I have plans to get back into drawing now that I have the time for it. I have so many ideas and I honestly can't wait to get them down on paper. I'm also going to build up my designing skills and try to get that to the best standards.

I am planning on doing a Vlog here and there to boost my confidence in this field, I have a few ideas waiting and more ideas are more than welcome.

But currently I'm working on a new CV and trying to get a job in retail, oh the joys.

In the mean time I'm still going to be posting on here at least once or twice a week, maybe even more now that I have the time. I'm still going to continue with the recent findings on the store and I will be posting the outfits that I wore whilst in Italy as well as the Vlog! 

But until then I'm going to enjoy my break and I will be back on track next monday.

So everyone, enjoy your day and I will be back in a few days.

Further Development

 For the final design I've decided to go for a sleeveless play suit. Here I've experimented with the placement of the embroidery. I've also experimented on another page with different fastenings, deciding whether to use all buttons, button and a zip or a zip. In the end I decided to use buttons and a zip to separate the bottom form the top.

The next image displays the final design as a flat as well as a close up of the design of the flowers for the embroidery that I will be using, which will be done by a machine for a better effect.

The denim I'm going for will be a dark navy blue, but doesn't need to be stretchy for the adjustment that will be placed at the back.

Design Development for final idea

My final design is a play suit.

Here I've experimented with adding sleeves, collars, bootcuts and darts. With the development I then moved on to designing an adjustment tot he back for flexibility, because it is made out of denim it may be hard to move around in. If I wanted to to make a design evolving sleeves than an adjust to the back would be need.

The adjustments I've designs are both elastic, one being obvious and the other being hidden underneath more denim, giving a cleaner look.
Either of the two would be useful to the garment.

Glimpse of a line-up that I had done from the first project from Fashion Drawing and Communication.

This is a line-up I'm showing is from our first module, Fashion Drawing and communication.
The designs were based around a theme/storyline that we had to come up with and work around it. I decided to go with Modern Myth from macro trends on WGSN and I went down the root of Cosmic Couture.
 I chose these two because Modern Myth is based on mythology and scientific surrounds and beliefs, the fact that it is a mixture of religious and scientific views makes a story line interesting with the amount of stories that can come from them.

The storyline however...
I researched on some short stories and I came across Population 218 by Acacia. The story is based around a nuclear war that happened and the survivors live in a dome where the population is strictly 218! So, if a baby is born a member of the population must die. BUT!! Instead of using the tragic side of the story I thought I would base my ideas around the surroundings inside the dome and what it would be like not being able to enter the outside world.

Researching further with this storyline I looked into the Edens project with it's shape and the plant life on the inside to give me the idea of what it would be like if there was no green life on the outside of the the dome.
I then looked into the hexagon shape that appears on the dome, looking at architecture and bridges around Newcastle and into designers such as Gareth Pugh and DZHUS, looking into their collection that used a lot of laser cut and 3D uses.

I then went on to experiment with my own designs and illustrations by using water colour paints, photo copying fabrics and placing them on to my designs to help me capture what I would be looking at if I were to create the garments.

For this first module I really enjoyed it because drawing is one of my strongest points and being able to use my skills and ideas was good use to this project.

The other photo I am showing is one of the experimentations that I had done in my file to back up my ideas and designs, focusing on shapes and detail with the use of water colour.