This is my multiple arm prototype.
This is my second prototype which can be worn in a number of ways.
Photos for look book
These are a few of the photos i might use for my visual communication book. I decided to make a pair a knee length leggings to go with the mulitple arm top to complete the outfit. I have also added the elastic to both garments to enhance it's wearing options.
This is my multiple arm prototype.
This is my second prototype which can be worn in a number of ways.
This is my multiple arm prototype.This is my second prototype which can be worn in a number of ways.
Prototypes
This is my multiple arm garment. I'm quite happy with the outcome. I wasn't originally going to have the back panel, yet i felt it needed something black to tie it together with my other prototype which has black binding. I still need to add the elastic that will connect the arms together.
I'm not as happy with this garment as i feel that it is very plain, and needs something to enhance it.
I still need to play around with the elastic that i am going to use to hitch up the garment in various optional ways.
I still need to play around with the elastic that i am going to use to hitch up the garment in various optional ways.Prototype development
This week I tried to focus on coming up with a pattern design solution for an idea I had that involves multiple arms. I came up with the idea from this image of jewellery made from dismembered barbie doll body parts. I admire its notion of repetition and harmony.
I found it hard to visualise how multiple arms would work on a pattern. At first I decided I would make long tubes that sit around the neck and insert holes for the arms to go through, but it didn't create the effect I was desiring.
After speaking with Ricarda, we came up with a couple of solutions that may achieve the effect I was after. I toiled one of the options, and although it didn't appear as quite what I had in mind, I was still very pleased with the result.
Research cont.
In my prototype series, I intend to explore the notion of having the option to wear the garment in more than one way. To achieve this, I have looked at the possibilities of repetition of design elements, joinings of various garments into one and flipping and pasting garments.
The major components for my prototypes will be referencing the generic garments and looking at ways I can enhance them by giving them another purpose / function. Within this, I have been experiementing different ways of achieving significant drape.
The image on the left is of Hussein Chalayan's coffee table dress. Chalayan is a fashion designer that is considered intellectual and avant garde. His collections continuously challenge traditional notions of fashion yet still remain recognisable and elegant.
I was particularily inspired by the coffee table dress and Chalayan's ability to transform an everyday item into fashion and for them to have that multifunctionality.
The major components for my prototypes will be referencing the generic garments and looking at ways I can enhance them by giving them another purpose / function. Within this, I have been experiementing different ways of achieving significant drape.
The image on the left is of Hussein Chalayan's coffee table dress. Chalayan is a fashion designer that is considered intellectual and avant garde. His collections continuously challenge traditional notions of fashion yet still remain recognisable and elegant.
I was particularily inspired by the coffee table dress and Chalayan's ability to transform an everyday item into fashion and for them to have that multifunctionality.
Research and methods- Week 2
To begin my toile explorationg, I decided to use already made generic garments from home and op-shops to experiment with. My aim was to gather multiple generic garments and join them together randomly to create one individual garment, almost like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. This idea relates back to my initial theme of mutated forms, unconventional pairings, disassembled structure and rearrangement of form.
This is my first toile, where I have sewn all the pieces together randomly so that you have the option to wear it in a number of different ways. These are just a few of the ways it can be worn.I think that this experimentation had some good results yet i still don't know how I can communicate them into a finished prototype, or how I can take it further.
Exploration- Week 1
Hans BellmerHans Bellmer was a German artist, best known for his life-sized female dolls he produced in the mid 1930's. I find his work intreguing yet rather disturbing with the mutated forms and unconventional poses he created by re-arraging body parts. His ability to dissasemble body parts and morph them into something else, a somewhat figure, is something that I would like to further explore.
With Hans Bellmer in mind, it really motivated me to start exploring the idea of mutated garment structure and multiple body parts for multiple functions. It also inspired me to create collages to better 
demonstrate and express the mood / feel of my theme. I used a combination of different medias including magazine cut-out, tissue paper, old doll books from an op-shop and grey led pencil. To stick it down I used a clear estapol, which I find gives it a very flat smooth finish. I chose to do a collage I found it related back to my theme of combining different elements of the generic garment and mutating etc.
demonstrate and express the mood / feel of my theme. I used a combination of different medias including magazine cut-out, tissue paper, old doll books from an op-shop and grey led pencil. To stick it down I used a clear estapol, which I find gives it a very flat smooth finish. I chose to do a collage I found it related back to my theme of combining different elements of the generic garment and mutating etc.Week 5
One-piece Swimsuit
The one-piece swimsuit is usually a skin-tight garment worn for any activity involving water or sun activity. The one-piece swimsuit, traditionally covering the female’s torso, can be considered as more modest than the two-piece bikini. The most common type of swimsuit is the sleeveless leotard shape, which we focused on making.
The one-piece swimsuit is usually a skin-tight garment worn for any activity involving water or sun activity. The one-piece swimsuit, traditionally covering the female’s torso, can be considered as more modest than the two-piece bikini. The most common type of swimsuit is the sleeveless leotard shape, which we focused on making.
Swimsuit- Self directed Design Exercise
For this week's homework, we were asked to develop our own design approach for experimentation with the swimsuit. I decided to work with the words 'Compose/ Dispose' as a starting point. As the one-piece swimsuit is generally designed to cover the torso, I wanted to explore how I could alter its traditional function, without taking too much away from what it really is.
I wanted to consider how I can dispose of conventional design elements or features, yet compose by creating form by combining features or elements of the traditional swimsuit.
For this week's homework, we were asked to develop our own design approach for experimentation with the swimsuit. I decided to work with the words 'Compose/ Dispose' as a starting point. As the one-piece swimsuit is generally designed to cover the torso, I wanted to explore how I could alter its traditional function, without taking too much away from what it really is.
I wanted to consider how I can dispose of conventional design elements or features, yet compose by creating form by combining features or elements of the traditional swimsuit.
Most bathers have certain features that are practical and impractical, taking this into account, I wanted to look at what I could take away from the bathers, without making them unwearable as bathers, as much as I could add to them within the design construction.
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