Sequins for design 3:

For my dress design 3: I have had to research into sequins and what is going to be the best option for me. I will need to consider the size of the sequins and  I also must consider the price. I found a website called 'Simply Sequins' I found this very helpful. Here are a few of my options I am considering on the basis of my design and colour pallet.

Jones and Jones Look Book...

Dress design two evaluation of fabrics

Evaluation of fabrics

I have chosen my final fabrics on the basis of my Roman colour pallet and what fabrics would work best to hold the structure of my garment. These are my final fabrics for my dress design two. 

(pictures to be added) 

Black Tulle (bodice)

For the bodice I needed a fabric, which was strong and had no elasticity, as I needed the fabric to hold my flower embellishments The fabric has slight lines going through I liked this effect however you will only see slight parts of the bodice as the flowers are going to completely cover the front and back.

Netting

I had a choice of choosing white or purple netting for my underskirt. I experimented with both and came to a conclusion that with my final garment having a purple skirt with the purple netting showing slightly this would give me a nice effect.

The netting itself once manipulated will give out the effect of making the skirt flow out holding a stronger structure.

Skirt- purple crepe

I felt for my final fabric this had a nice feel and would hold the skirts structure properly once netting was added the wrong side of the fabric is glossy (the is the side you wont see) it will have a nice feel to it though this will show I have considered the comfort of the garments.

 

NEW STYLE PAGE TRIBAL TRENDS

CAD and how it is used...

I have been looking at a wide range of how computer aided design is used in industry and in every day life. Computers have become a massive part of day to day life and many companies use CAD as a way of displaying a design like in gardening and house design. Its a more complex way of looking at something and shows you a more technical picture. 

Here is a list of the uses of CAD... 

CAD is used to design and develop products, such as buildings, bridges, highways and interstates, aircraft, ships, automobiles, digital cameras, mobile phones, TVs, clothes, shoes, and computers, just to name a few. In addition, CAD is used throughout the engineering process from theoretical design and layout, detailed engineering and examination of components to definition of manufacturing methods in the following fields: Architecture, Industrial Design, Engineering, Garden design, and Construction Building engineering, Mechanical (Mechanical Computer Aided Design), Automotive Aerospace, Consumer Goods, Machinery, Ship Building, Electronic and Electrical (Electronic Computer-Aided Design), Manufacturing process planning, Digital circuit design, Software applications, Apparel and Textile CAD.

Creating Final Flowers for garments!

Here are some pictures of how my flowers for my final designs. Its taking a while however I have finally covered the front of my garment in them. I feel by looking at it adding embellishments make the garment stand out and the flowers add volume...

How to create a button hole...

For one of my garments I needed to create a button hole in my skirt!
I have created a step by step guide for myself to look over whilst stuck.

The machine is a memory craft semi industrial sewing machine.

1. Centre the button hole mode number 3, number 11.
Number 11 for medium to heavy weight fabrics. (Which I will defiantly need because my fabric is a stiff suede)

2. Measure button at 2.5cm and 1cm (1cm for ease)

3. Take the measurement 3.5cm. Then make a line on the fabric with Taylors Chalk.

4. Insert your button into the correct side so it fits tight.

5. Attach the foot to the presser bar.

6. A line the top thread with the bottom thread.

7. Lift the presser foot up and slide fabric underneath the foot.

8. You will see a arrow key on the machine put the needle into fabric press button down.

9. Lift the presser foot. Make sure they are a lined.

10. A line the point of the needle with the centre front point.

11. Manually drop the needle into the fabric.

12. Pull button hole lever down.

13. Lift button hole lever up/ cut threads.

14. Open button hole with stitch un picker.

Creating my own Look Book

Here I have created my own look book with the use of Illustrator Inspired by the current high street simplistic trends and minimal modern architecture. 

Creating a look book/current trends

All big fashion sites like Topshop and River Island will have trend pages where fashion buyers choose key items (ones they think that will sell the most) and create a page of different items that follow the same trend. Often these pages will include celebs that are wearing the trend, models showing how you can wear the trend or key items that you can mix and match together to create a overall look. This is a great way for the public to know how to work a trend.

I always find missguided.co.uk very useful where I can find key trends and I always know whats in fashion in a particular season.

Here are some of the pages from the site...

Fashion Illustration combined with Adobe Illustrator

As part of my current project for my computer brief I am currently researching into fashion illustrators that use different Adobe Illustrator techniques in their work.

Kelly Smith 

'Kelly Smith lives and works in Tasmania, Australia. In 2006 she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Tasmanian School of Art and has since gone on to pursue of a freelance career in both portrait and fashion illustration' 

Her work is consistent and mostly includes similar techniques. 

- pencil, watercolour and digital colouring.

Here are some examples of kelly's work... 

Here  I have took the idea from kelly of using artistic shapes too add detail to one of her illustrations. I have experimented with different fonts and mounted the image on a canvas. I have stylised the image with the glow effect making kelly's sketch look entirely different. This would be a good advertisement for somewhere like Alton Towers promoting a new ride.