11/09/14 - Capsule Collection Design

On Monday, we were encouraged to sketch quick designs, starting and first focusing on incorporating a small detail into the designs of collars, pockets and sleeves before moving on to design full garments of clothing. The design homework was to create 50 designs and on Wednesday, we were told to narrow down our designs, creating 5 outfits to be used as a capsule collection. As I hadn't done the 50 designs, I created my capsule collection based partly from the quick designs I'd created on Monday along with fresh, new ideas. 

This task was definitely the most challenging by far as up until break, I was still feeling out of depth as my design work on Monday hadn't been on figures and were only flat-lays. With Naomi's help and reassurance however, I borrowed a book from the study zone in order to look at different styles of fashion illustration and after break, I was able to draw my own figures and begin designing. Whilst I'm certain I want to head into promotion, it was definitely educational to have a week in fashion design as I am now a lot more aware of the design process and the thought that goes behind making a collection. 

My designs incorporated Gego's work and as pointed out by Naomi, I've come to realise that Gego's work links with both 'structure' and 'attachment'. The wire structures can easily be transferred onto the idea of constellations, geometric representations of the brain or the metal mother used in Harlow's monkey experiment into attachment. My chosen colour is indigo blue as I like the richness it gives to my designs. It's also a colour that I believe suits all skin tones and as my designs included lots of sheer panels, I thought it best to have a classic colour to compliment the flesh on show.

It was also nice to be helped out by my classmates when it came to designing as I was out of my comfort zone and struggling at the beginning. From being shown different ways to draw the figure through to getting tips on using the ProMarkers, I gained a lot of useful knowledge on fashion illustration. It was also interesting to see how everyone's illustrations differed- some were more expressive whilst others were simpler like mine.