18/03/2011

Today, after six weeks of hard we finished the module FT 1503: Explore Materials with a fashion show in AVA of University of East London…

All members of my group styled our models and prepared everthing for the show…
_music: Paul Kalkbrenner - Gebrunn Gebrunn
_hair: Susie
_make up: All members

FASHION SHOW…

VICTORIA WEARING MY DESIGN…

MYSTERY/MIRROR 2011/12

17/03/2011

In the evening I had an extra fitting, but since she did not turn up I asked my lovely flatemate if I can try some make up and hair styles on her.
I was inspired by magazines, e.g. VOGUE, DRAPERS, internet sources like WGSN and online fashion blogs…

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER, CHRISTIAN LACROIX, CHRISTIAN DIOR (WGSN, 2010)…

MY MAKE UP TRIALS WITH KATRIN…

HAIR TRIAL WITH KATRIN…

17/03/2011

For Estela’s designed long dress I mostly used my favourite water colours, water colour pencils and acrylic for the black part of the dresses to demonstrate our shiny fabric…
The hair and the face of the model is made espcially what Estela wanted…

MY ILLUSTRATION FOR ESTELA’S DESIGN…

Technical drawing I learned during my intership at Olsen GmbH& KG. last year

TECHNICAL DRAWING FOR MY DESIGN…

16/03/2011

What kind of Model would fit our collection for S/S 2011/12?
Our concept Mystery/Mirror and the matching styling…
But for our group we needed to find definitly a tall girl, who fits in Estela’s designed dress, since it was over approximately over 165cm long.
We started to asked friends and they asked again there friends.
On the following days we did a casting/fitting and prepared our finished sewed dresses and if not ready sewed at least our final toiles…

As some girls just cancelled one night before the show we needed to find some and my best flat mate asked her fellow student and tada I FOUND MY MODEL FOR MY DESIGN….

BEAUTIFUL VICTORIA…

EXPRESSIVE MODEL…

11/03/2011

After sewing, unpicking, correction, unpicking again wrong…
I could not believe what I finished or if the pattern were smaller than a size 10. But than I realized the mannequine is a size 12 and it was the reason why the dress didn’t fit…
Also the box pleat felt beautifully on the left side…

FINAL SEWED DRESS SIRIPON’S DESIGN…

FRONT

BACK

RIGHT SIDE

LEFT SIDE

DETAIL- BOX PLEAT ON THE FRONT LEFT SIDE

10/03/2011

Today my group apportioned the fabrics, which was bought on tuesday. We also got some extra fabric, just in case we might cut something wrong.
After that I cut all black parts of the Sai’s dress out, since the fabric was really slippery it was necessary to pin where ever I could and i also taped it on some parts of the pattern…

CENTRE BACK…

PRINTED FABRIC…

PRINT DESIGN…

08/03/2011

I went for extra fabric research around Egware and Hackney.
Each of them has a different athmosphere and also the shops presents their fabrics very varied…

JASON’S FABRICS LTD IN 310-312 EDWARE ROAD, W2 1DY…

HADSON IN 318 EDGWARE ROAD, W2 1DY…

JOEL & SON FABRICS IN 75-83 CHURCH STREET, NW8 8EU…

Joel & Son fabric shop offers a lot of beautiful fine fabrics and my personal favourite!
For further fabric and trimming shops please have a look in my fabric file…

04/03/2011

To make it easier for the next person, Elizabeth, I made a new toile
…but I sew the diagonal front and back part on the left side…
I gave her both and explained her everthing…

TOILE II
FRONT

BACK

RIGHT

LEFT

For my sewing file I made a video, since I took too many pictures of every step and samples…
All annotation, e.g. tread type, stitch length, needle size and seam allowence are in my sewing file, which I will hand it in on the 18/03/2011…

SEWING FILE SAMPLES…

01/03/2011

Today Stella and I went tfor fabric research in around west end around Shepherd’s Bush. There were a lot of them and really cheap comparing to the shops in Soho area. We asked for samples and looked also for our group theme Mystery/Mirror.

FABRIC SHOPS…

FABRIC FOR OUR THEME…

03/03/2011

Ayumi’s design’s was basicly 11 pattern pieces…

AYUMI’S DESIGN & TECHNICAL DRAWING by AYUMI MORITA…

I used the dart to make the dress bottom wider.
But it didn’t matches the sizes of each front and back pattern.
Therefore i add 5cm, where it was missed.After I finished one part I talked to Ayumi
 if she liked it or if she want any changes. For the next step I pinned the pattern to calico, traced and cut them out.
 First I sew the back part and front part and then the side with the pleats.
At the end I connect the collar with the body…
But when I wanted to put the toile on the mannequine totally forgot the opening.
I just sew everything together without to know where the zips goes…
Ayumi wanted the zip in the centre front, so I opened the seam and asked Caryl for
feedback and further advice…

_the diagonal collar was stretched,since I didn’t stay stitched the 1cm seam allowence…

_the collar pattern was wrong…

_I need to make a pattern for a facing…

TOILE I…
FRONT

BACK

RIGHT

DETAILED BOX PLEAT

25/02/2011

In the morning part we had a dying workshop in the working room of the ava building.Tess showed us around and started in smaller groups a dye session.
Firstly she took different fabric samples and washed them.After that she prepared one spoon of dying colour powder,salt and heated it up.
Slowly the samples were put piece by piece in the colour soup.
Tess remind us that the intense of the colour will be lighter than we’re seeing during dying. Therefore she showed a long stripe of silk to demonstrate the intension of the colouration trough dip dying.
The result, a nice gradiention from light to dark red. Ten minutes later she took out the samples switched the heater and washed them with cold water.
Additionally she prepared a blue dying pot to mix colours in a garment and the gradiention silk stripe had a beautiful pink, purple colouration and ended with dark blue.
At the end of the session each of us did some dying and our group really enjoyed it. Thank you Tess!!!

FABRIC SAMPLES IN COLOUR BOWL…

GRADIENTION…

DIP DYING PINK TO PURPLE BLUE…

WASHING THE DYED SAMPLES…

In the afternoon lesson Rose gave a us a brief introduction for our sewing file and how we are going to work on it.
Some sewing were quit tricky, e.g. corner/pointed seam or the cargo pocket, but therefore she showed us step by step how we can handle them nicely.

24/02/2011

To make sure if I’m doing right I cut the paper pattern for myself and fixed the dress together to see if it’s working as 3-Dimensionale…

CENTRE BACK PATTERN No.7…

PAPER TOILE…

DETAILS…

For my sewing samples I read some information in the recommended Vogue Sewing book. It helped me for some extra works and stitches.

VOGUE SEWING…