ROTATION THREE | FASHION DESIGN

Getting to the final piece

After a deep primary and secondary research, a lot of experiments and several plausible outcomes I had to take a direction to follow for my final piece.

I had my piece of inspiration already (see previous blogpost) but I wanted to get something extravagant and original out of it.

As I did not want to create a standard high street wereable dress, I decided to use the shapes of the Type to "wrap up" the mannequin.
To cover the whole surface and enhance the sense of interest and continuity, I worked on each letter separately.

Author's own.

I wanted this piece to arouse interest. That is why I chose to play with the negative spaces and filled them up with cuts of paper with the patterns I made.

In my first final outcome (picture above) I decided to add different materials such as tissue paper to "fill up" the negative spaces.

I realized how this combination did not work well. The shapes of the letters looked modern and flat whereas the tissue paper gave a sense of vintage and dated. I wanted the piece to look fresh so I decided to discard this first composition.

With further research, experiments and the opinion of the tutor, I quickly found a nice look which could perfectly suit my intention. The tissue paper had been replaced with more patterns and the overall started to look better already.  Then I traced an outline with a black sharpie on the shapes of the Type and that was the icing on the cake.

The final garment looks endearing to me. The shapes gives a cartoony and Manga sense.

From this piece I strongly showed how Graphic Design is my background.

Here are some photographs from a photoshoot we arranged with some Digital Media classmates.

As a conclusion I surprisingly enjoyed this session probably because my inspiration came from one of my passions, Graphic Design.

I will take this project further collaborating with some Digital Media students for the creation of a catalogue to present all our works. I can't wait!