Dior Haute Couture Summer 2011

Spring Summer 2011 Dior Shoes :-)

Week 3 of tailoring

Over this week ive learnt how to hand sew a shoulder pad and a rever. The rever is the hand sew bit insider the lapel of a tailored jacket. Sorry no pictures to show.

Mary katrantzou Spring Summer 2011

Innovative Sleeve

Picture of my innovative sleeve. It is a puff sleeve with tucks just above the elbow then into a 3 piece lower part of the sleeve. Also with a top stitch hem. As you can see from the picture i have used different sides of the fabric for different pieces, feels makes it more effective.

Set-in sleeve

This week we were show how to do a set-in sleeve. Once you have made sure there is no pucks in the seam of the top you can add a head roll to smooth the sleeve out. A head roll is a form of shoulder pad. After we learnt this we had to applied our skills and design and make an innovative sleeve.

Spring Summer 2011

Button Holes

First picture is an example of my hand made button hole. Then the 2nd picture shows how this would be developed and turned into a pocket on a tailored garment.

Tailoring

Now have my tailoring module learning new ways of sewing over the weeks then left to developed these skills in my private studies . This week i have been shown how to hand sew hems. I will do a example of all these and show them in a file i can keep and refer back to in years to come. I have also been show how to create button holes. I have produce examples of hand made button hole and machine button holes in my file.

Paul Smith shop report

Just a few picies of my shop report sketches. By doing this it helps me keep up to date of the current trends and look more closely at the garments. I can see how they hav manufactured the garment with all the finishings and trims. Also with Paul Smith i looked closely at the linings.

West Yorkshire Playhouse

Visited the West Yorkshire playhouse in Leeds to help us with research for tailoring. I drew sketches of the clothing focusing more on the key details. For instance button holes, pockets, fastenings and trims. We also dressed up in a few of the clothes. Sum funny pics to look at hehe :-)

few pics from the heroes and heroines

Heroes and Heroines

Today i have visited the Heroes and Heroines exhibition at the Leeds city museum. This will help as part of my research. I will post a few pictures to follow.

Paul Smith Tailoring

Enterprise

As part of our enterprise module we have to come up with an idea that you can use to start up a business with £10 of your money. I have created a partership with Nichola and Jennifer Harding to create a business now using £30 of making and selling baby doll dresses.

Our brand name is Frivolous!!!
Look out for the making of Frivolous....

Tailoring

My tailoring starts on the 11th of November. In prep i need to produce a shop report looking at tailored garments in the shops today. I have therefore chose to look at Paul Smith. i feel this will match the brief. i am going to look at men's and women's tailored clothing therefore i can chose which gender i can going to focus on. I am going to go into the Paul Smith shop in Leeds to sketch the current trends. I need to look at all detail such as fabric, top stitch, pockets buttons etc

reading week

In my reading week from the 25th Oct to the 28th Oct i was part of the drawing elective.
Overall a enjoyable experience and feel i have learnt new ways of drawing.

David Downton

Fashion Illustrations

Feedback

Just had my feedback today. he said i had interesting aspects throughout trend book such as envelope format and packaging. However lacking in critical visual impact. Requires a little more order and layout awareness.
Line- up requires creative life and garment. please experiment with digital work on future modules to prepare for placement and industry. Stronger point research/summer work. pleasant mature member of the group.

Overall I'm happy with that like i said earlier i just need to find my own style that works for me, for my working line up and illustrations.

1st module is now over. Very tired after the stress of handing in. I think it would have been ok if i didn't have my presentation to do on the same day as the hand in as i was feeling very tired. Therefore i felt i didn't have full focus while talking and couldn't think of the words i wanted to say.

Presentation

I have to do a presentation to sell my collection. this was quite scary but i got through it lol. I felt i could have spoke a little bit more and been more direct.