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Joy, Joy, Joy

In all the earths, In all galaxies, In all the time lines, we find you here.
Earth has been waiting for rescue.

And rescue is inside of you.
inside of you.
inside of you.

Grow up.

I could draw things.

I am so incredibly lucky to work with Allison and Bits of Thread during the break. Truly, she is inspiration all on her own. Thank you for everything from me and everyone you help.

To some up my collections from Intro would pretty much look like this:

Maybe I'm just a little stuck.

Project 5: Designer Garments
Compared to the last 3D Project, this one seemed a little more liberated from rules. You could cut as much as you like, didn't have to use 10 yards, etc. The directions were a lot more loose. And to be honest I don't EXACTLY know what the project was because seriously however you interpret it Marie will pretty much say "well you tell me" and the projects never seem to be the way written on the paper. So my BEST explanation is we were to as usual, have a designer influence and take a look or two from his collection and make a 3D interpretation of your own for a final collection. This look was to be made out of an "unusual material" like plastic, paper, fireworks, and so on.

And as always you could burn it, break it, step on it, whatever. I didn't want to pick paper, because that is so close to fabric, but I ended up using paper anyway... lol you could get 50 masks on amazon for 2 dollars. That's a steal and paper masks have curve to them, so there goes your cups and pads and they are rather unusual. So the rules were less intimidating, but the work load was pretty much everything we had ever done before rolled into one. 20 sketches, 30 colored illustrations, flats for everything, poster, and a garment. She suggested to copy the illustrations 3 times, which was fine, although the project called for "silhouette study" meaning they would each have to be unique? But it was a lot and she was reasonable. I was only a little intimidated because on average, no lie, it takes me 30 to 45 minutes to draw a flat. And worse for sketches so I desperately asked her how I could do them faster ;) Overall, I literally whipped those out the night before, and I'm kind of embarrassed of them BUT WHATEVER. And the collection...really. It's really interesting, on the spot like that, I don't know why I couldn't take the collections part very seriously. You can think of them on your own about what YOU would make, but in the classroom these 2 feel specifically designed for the project.

I had used "smaller" designers like Alexis Mabille, Junya Watanable, Pedro Lourenco, Cappucci, but I figured for the last project I'd finish with a "much larger" one: Alexander McQueen with new direction. Why? Because of the butterfly dress above. That dress is incredibly inspiring because sometimes it's easy to think "everything has been done before", but the idea that you can take such a beautiful, delicate butterfly and turn it into a textile is amazing. There is a quote by Coco that is pretty well known regarding fashion being everywhere, in the streets, way people think. Fashion as life. But honestly, I think it's very beautiful to think that way, but to me fashion is not everything. Fashion is something that is so, almost not supposed to be of this world. Including ready to wear. "Fashion" is a very magical thing. Clothes are very magical.

And I say fashion isn't everything, because I am not referring to department store lights, or the runway, it's all about fashion and you and that strange emotion that comes with it. Empowerment. Fashion is transforming. Serena can become Sailor Moon, Clark Kent, Superman and Cinderella can go to the ball. I think this is why my inspiration is too often fantasy. Because I am catering to a customer that isn't just a girl. She's a princess. She's a fairy. She is not merely human.

So my inspiration for this project included:

Petals, Classical music

Fairy things, Angelic creatures, structure, armor, etc.

Ultimately giving something that is not necessarily pretty, elegance

Project II Draping

Ultimately the second project was to explore draping, and Marie used a starting point as the idea of Greek and Roman draping but you could obviously think outside of that. The required material was ten yards of black and white striped fabric (which was oddly enough very trendy this spring, good call Marie) and we were to come up with a design that would some how alter the human body, evoke the word "innovative" and we were only allowed to cut the yardage 3 times.

So lol not only did we have to buy TEN yards of fabric but we could only cut it, like seriously pick up scissors to the fabric, 3 times. So when Veronica took us to Hancock's because Joanns does not sell black and white stripes apart from Jail Halloween costumes, I seriously figured well someone else from the class had to have been there and asked the guy who was cutting, I think his name is Venus? (obv must be noted), if anyone else had come in asking for ten yrds of black and white stripes and there wasn't much left of whatever they had, so we looked around more and there was a nice one but it had come in two separate bolts the remnant of 2 yards and 8 yards lol so I had really already had "one cut" already done. But I really liked the fabric and that was all there was left so why not. Okay I will not ramble for the rest of this!

The rest of the project was to do a front-side-back illustration of that garment and come up with 2 other looks from the collection and the views of those.

So I had to define innovation.

Because all though you hear it a lot, how does it relate to clothes? So I really went on google and dictionary.com just for the facts. My interpretation of "innovation" for the project was the idea that there is "Creation" and then there is "Evolution" when things change or get better or progress, like "innovation". And so I took this progress one step further to a "Metamorphosis" where things change again to be beautiful. The caterpillar was already created as a caterpillar, but it does more than just evolve into a bigger caterpillar, it morphs into something beautiful.

So Metamorphosis would be the idea/stage where things can become beautiful. Which I tend to hope is my direction in fashion.

I wasn't entirely sure how to "drape" so the sketch I showed Marie that she suggested I attack looked like I would have to cut it a billion times. And told me "-only if you know how to do it." So OF COURSE I would have to do it. haha I love her.

So here is my inspiration. My starting concept was the idea of paper origami because with that well, you are making these creations by manipulating the paper but not cutting it, kind of like the project we were doing. Further more I explored "buggy" things like dragonflies and butterflies, things with wings, things that morph (yes I know dragons flies don't fall into that category).

As well as Japanese kimonos, the black and white striped beauty of pianos and accordion keys, pretty places, and b and w photog. Just to "inspire".

Furthermore my designer influence was Cappucci, as well as did I borrow themes of shape and pattern from Peter, Pedro, and Junya.
My color story:

Or rather, colourless story.
And some documentation:

Don't laugh at my girls lol. Those boots were MADE for walkin.
I knew I wanted to make a "short" dress. Maybe I'm just SUCH a boy. Also, from a totally different view I'm way "bow-y" because I can be such a girl designing but I wanted it to still be fairly "masculine". I don't know. Scrollish. I would totally do a "dead sea scrolls" collection.
Like- I honestly don't know how it came about but it did and I'm so happy it did.
Slash I totally know how it happened, we stayed awake like forever. I could NOT believe when Martina asked what time it was and Megan was like "3:46" I SWEAR I thought she was lieing. Because it was like JUST midnight. :) I'll miss them. And Eckburg but in a bit I WONT BE MISSIN IT NO MOE.