Creating garments from our samples

After making my five samples, I was asked to select one that I would then create another 20 of in a variety of sizes. We had a couple of hours to do this - each sample should range from the palm of our hands to any large size around A3 size or larger if we could. After I had created all 20 of my samples I was paired up with another person from my class after we piled both of our twenty samples around a model. We were going to work together to use our samples and other samples created from others in my class to produce a garment, accessories or structure onto the fashion model. We had to move in a rotation around each of everyone's models and create a different piece depending on their samples and the word we were given to explore. At first this was difficult because I have never done textiles but I saw the work I was doing as a structure which needed its own narrative and theme to produce it just like any other story or design I have ever created.

Above is the first model that we created - we were given these angled 3D triangles to work with and we decided to use these triangles as shoulder pads - we then wanted to  focus on the back where we placed two of these (one larger and the other smaller underneath) I felt this reminded me of a bird's tail; In fact the whole piece did, and suddenly the should pads reminded me of wings. We included further triangles to the front on the neck and the largest on the chest so that impact could be made straight away when looking at the model. This is because the geometrical shape was so strong and powerful it defiantly overpowered the other small circles that we placed around. If I was going to do this again I would maybe use on the triangles and layer them over one area to see how this would turn out. However no doubt using one of these shapes was so bold. My favourite angle is from the side because I like the shape angles which add volume to the model stand. Furthermore it is interesting to see the different directions of the shapes - and I feel that this shot is simply the best one out of the above too show off our piece.

This is the second outfit we created - the theme was 'minimal' so we tried to use a simple concept. Here we place a giant paper aeroplane over the  main body of the model and then use small brown squares to cover the rest of the body. I like the gaps within the piece because it gives the impression of a minimal piece - if I were to do this garment again I would have liked to use the brown squares entirely to cover the body.