Ahh... Projects!
Our first project as Fashion students, I got it 4 weeks ago though... I´m a slow updater, gomenasai!
um, well... this is a conceptual project where we were given the words Sportswear Couture (For the Performance Sportswear students), Hyperculture and Cinematic.
I chose Cinematic after a slow start on the research, and chose to look at Iconic women (actresses if you please) and I´m going to make a shirtdress inspired by these women.
What I´ve done is to look at their lives, and found that they all had this kind of veil between their media life and their personal life. So I´ve gone into that concept with the veil... so I´m going to use fabrics like lace, silks and chiffon. I might post some of the designs once they´re done.
I´ve also been busy with workshops these past weeks, learning to construct different patterns related to our shirt projects... just so we know what we CAN do and what we CAN´T do. We´ve done the same with our sewing workshops, we have had inductions to various sewing machines and damn do we have a lot of fancy stuff!
We have a buttonhole machine, where you can plot in the size of the buttonhole and which style it´s going to be in... and voila! finished, perfectly cut buttonhole in seconds!
we also have a blind-seam machine, which I love because Blind-seams are a pain in the ass to do by hand. And our Irish Embroidery machine <3 haven´t tested that one, but I sure will!
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
RAGE!!!
Oh my god... The Fashion course teachers makes my last course in Norway look like shit.
I have now realized that everything I´ve "learned" about Pattern Cutting and Construction is wrong... or rather Chihoko, my pattern-cutting-construction teacher, is teaching it in a way that I can actually understand! I, make my own patterns in seconds now! it´s like a children's game!
And at Årstad they should change the name from Design and Textiles to Sewing and Textiles... THEY-DO-NOT-KNOW-ANYTHING-ABOUT-DESIGN!!!
There are no real research, no back story behind the garments, no follow-up from the teachers, nothing!!!
and there is no knowledge passed on about how to design a collection, they don´t focus on the students - finding their VOICE.... because in design, at least in fashion design, you have a voice/style, you can instantly see who designed the collection because it has a slight breath of the designers voice in them (wow, I sound poetic)
anyway.... I think I´m done now xD
I have now realized that everything I´ve "learned" about Pattern Cutting and Construction is wrong... or rather Chihoko, my pattern-cutting-construction teacher, is teaching it in a way that I can actually understand! I, make my own patterns in seconds now! it´s like a children's game!
And at Årstad they should change the name from Design and Textiles to Sewing and Textiles... THEY-DO-NOT-KNOW-ANYTHING-ABOUT-DESIGN!!!
There are no real research, no back story behind the garments, no follow-up from the teachers, nothing!!!
and there is no knowledge passed on about how to design a collection, they don´t focus on the students - finding their VOICE.... because in design, at least in fashion design, you have a voice/style, you can instantly see who designed the collection because it has a slight breath of the designers voice in them (wow, I sound poetic)
anyway.... I think I´m done now xD
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