HURRAH, ONE SMALL SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I FINALLY CAME UP WITH ILLUSTRATION STYLE. I WILL SCAN SOOOOOOOOON!

I GAVE THE MODEL A WEDGEEEEE

POOR BUBBA, SHE ISNT GETTING PAID ENOUGH TO WEAR A PAINFULLY ILL-FITTING SWIMSUIT.

OMG CAD EXAM TOMORROW.

okay so i have studied for cad exam slash hope i will be okay slash really dont like exams.

anyway i really have to get my final swimsuit underway i have cut out fabric pinned and tacked a couple of bits and really need to get a move on

sooo i better put up some toile images....

here is what it looked like.. IT DIDNT FIT HER. I USED STUPID SPOTLIGHT ONE WAY STRETCH FABRIC FOR LINING. I AM A RETARD. BUT LUCKILY GILLIAN SAID IT WOULD FIT FINE WITH RIGHT LINING. THANK GOD.

so reflecting upon my toile

1. small lines of binding look much better stretched over body than lying flat, although still got worry about where they all meet in either middle side of swimsuit, they gotta be right. i am going to have placing binding strips after 10 mm on every panel and hopefully if i measure properly it will be a sucess

2. going to bind everything thing legs wrists, neck (turned out well!) binding machine is not that mean!, twin needler is hell, thank god binding will look best on mine but have to work out new measurements for placing binding pieces at bottoms of swimsuit as i really stuffed that part of it up, but binding will work

3. gillian said my zipper was way too long, it really was but she said i put it in beautifully, hooraaah that why tacking is the most amazing thing i have ever discovered, takes forever but holds everything in place.

4.the bottom part the crotch is too wide need to cut that down, is that because my pattern is wrong? not sure have to work on that

5. really need to make top chest cut-out way more effective, so aim going to change pattern to achieve that, gillian thought this good idea hurrraaaah

ohhhhhhh my god i have to do all that measuring/pinning/tacking/pinning lining thing again on all panels for my final swimsuit.kill me. why did i do this swimsuit. why.

the road ahead

i have sooo much work to dooooo

aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

cover-ups!

i have never bought a cover-up myself so they seem quite an enigma....these two are from net-a-porter, definitely liking the silhouette of the first one over the second, need to look at some more cover-ups for capsule.....

LISA MARIE FERNANDEZ: AMAZING

I WANT A NEOPRENE MINI! definitely cant stop thinking about these garments esp when thinking about capsule collection. oh my god so sexy.......

some poses.....

some poses to get me thinking.....in other words start drawing asap.

illustrations to inspire me...for cad illustration and capsule..I NEED TO COME UP WITH AN ILLUSTRATION LOOK PRONTO!

i picked these illustrations from book called fashion illustration by fashion designers, hopefully this will help because i am dreadfully uninspired at the moment........aiiii carumba...save me from assessment......

the chosen swimsuit.........

and now the ever so easy task of making it. ha ha. (the toile was the most difficult thing i ever did in my life)

THE FINAL SIX DESIGNS!!!!!!!

AFTER EXPLORING WAY TOO MANY IDEAS, TOO MANY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS (SEE JOURNAL) I FINALLY DID THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and now the designing.....

MY SUPER-FAVOURITE CRAZY ABOUT/TOTALLY OBSESSED WITH COLLECTION: ANTHONY VACCARELLO

in the words of rachel zoe. i die.

ohhh my gawwwd these are just so amazing to me and i dont know why. so amazing.

Inspiration from the catwalk..gucci, versus...versace...

these are just couple of my pages on different swimwear techniques, really inspired by the panelling on versace collection right above and the cut outs from gucci collection and the idea of drawing lines across body, again this obsession with geometric, hard lines looking shapes......

i forgot the poiret collage, dammit

futurist garments, early 20th century paris and poiret

The fantastic tamara de lempicka!

THE MOST GLAMOROUS PAINTINGS OF MODERN WOMEN EVER CREATED!

so probably in terms of inspiration for designs i focused a lot on art movements im studying in modernism subject from 1900-1946 particularly cubism and futurism and some really interesting sculptures, here are my mood/inspiration art collages....

i particularly drew a lot of inspiration from the middle image, as the fantastic images i found where cubism and fashion meet in these very geometric fashions from 20s, there was very interesting reading i did in fashion and modernity about how women wore geometric fashion by designers such as sonia delaunay to show they were modern and part of this new breed of women.

all these modern women!

The maelstrom modernity: my starting point

oh my god my first picture post worked hurrah!

So my central inspiration the concept of modernity inspired by the two units i am doing this semester fashion and modernity and modernism, i wanted to explain visually in my journal. this second page is filled with quotes from this book called All that is solid melts into air:the experience of modernity by marshall berman and the first page i scanned is an image i found in a book called stylist and i thought it visually reflected the idea of modernity as maelstrom, the maelstrom of modern life and the idea how all these forces within modernity effect human figure......

Annette Kellerman

so here are my annette kellerman journal images where i googled pictures of her and read a little bit about her, she was pretty crazy, my mum says she remembers watching films with her in them when she was very little with her grandmother on sunday afternoons....

my one pathetic last minute post

I cannot believe I did not attend to this blog and focused solely on my journal.
eek.

anyway I shall go over my presentation points in this post.

concept:

I viewed annette kellerman in a broader sense, as a member of this body of "modern" and radical women. So with the help of the ideas raised in my other other subjects fashion and modernity and modernism I explored women in annette kellermans time, and the idea of the modern woman.

This led me into modern art at the time and the waves of different movements, expecially cubism and futurism, so i explored paintings and sculpture from this movements and time periods and found this exiting inspiration material. This led me to this idea that radical and modern and feminist women in twenties showed that they were part of this movement of women by wearing geometric textiles and garments. So i explored the idea of geometry as symbolic of the ideals of feminism and the to extent ideals annette kellerman embodied.

I found all these wonderful images of women in geometric, very 'modern' garments against these very art deco and very geometric backgrounds. This idea of geometry led me to focus on shapes and the way shapes connect e.g. in the cubist paintings and sculptures I researched.

And this led me to thinking about creating interesting, intersecting shapes on the body.

In terms of trends, I researched a trend of high , almost puritanical turtlenecks contrasted with interesting, racy cut outs. I also really got into the trend of cut-outs in swimwear and in general being really popular so I drew on that because I dont think its run its full course and it worked with my concept of creating interesting goemetric and angular shapes on the body.