Day 1 of Fashion Design Elective

Today is my first day of my first elective, fashion design. Granted we've only had one day so far - I'm loving it! We were given our brief last Friday and told to analyse selected images from the 'To Sense my Space' project. I chose my boat shed image and (of course) Gaudi's Sagrada Familia from my contextual. On showing my images to the tutors, they agreed that I could derive so much from the Sagrada Familia, so that's my chosen piece to analyse!
 From the analitical drawings, I drew some really interesting shapes. Not just from the outline and line drawings of the fantastic church, but also from close up images of it's details and construction images.

 

 

A selection of my shapes derived from the Sagrada Familia:

 

 

The shape above was the most interesting shape that I found. It was one of the unique totems on the steeples of the church. I think it's almost sculptural even as it sits on the page in 2D. By looking at it  I could immediately envision it on a mannequin. It's almost grotesque in shape but I can also see a natural side to it (maybe like coral or an interesting bloom.)

 

 

I then photocopied the shape to a grand scale, preparing it for the mannequin...

 

... And begun to cut out some of the smaller shapes
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And on to the mannequin!!

 

 

 

When I started to fit the shapes to the mannequin, I kept them close to the body, as if almost trying to create an outfit. I was soon corrected by one of our fashion tutuors, who explained to me that we shouldn't be creating something to fit the body, but a sculptural piece with the body as a platform. It must also have an interesting silhouette..

 

I think these trials on the mannequin have taught me alot. I'm definately going to study each one, taking into account what's working in the piece, and what's not. I didn't exactly come up with any masterpiece today, but the whole day was such an amazing learning curve!