Evaluation of EVANESCENT MOMENT.

I have been aiming to further push myself with technique and creativity within this project and feel overall that it has been successful. I have learnt a lot from the experience and wish to carry on building up my portfolio, creating innovative and sophisticated ideas. Within this project my photography work has grown significantly and I now feel confident in capturing my samples in this way. I have enjoyed working towards creating inspirational samples for high-end fashion as it has allowed me to push myself and be creative, creating unique samples but still finishing to a high quality. In this project I have created larger scale samples and this has been really successful, allowing me to work a lot more on the body, with photography and visualisations, to give more of an idea of how it could be worn as a garment. 

I have continued work from the previous project and this has allowed me to explore the idea of connecting wovens to knits further, creating subtle joins and layers. 

I have really focused on creating depth with colour, varying areas of transparency and using layers of knit and woven fabrics such as chiffons and pleats. The use of elastic and monofilament has created shapes that reflect the natural shapes from my research. 

I have also worked to find a way of creating a gradient of colour with my samples and feel I have achieved this using dip dye and inlay technique.

Overall, I feel that I have developed my ideas into a beautiful and unique inspirational collection of fabrics and photography for high end women's fashion. 

Final Visualisations.

This method of visualisation has worked well to display how my samples could be continued into garments. I wanted them to be more abstract and inspirational as my market is high end fashion so I want to influence in creating one off unique pieces.

Look Book.

I have decided to create a look book as I feel this will be a good way to show my photography in a sophisticated and professional way. As there has been confusion with delivery dates I have created a back up look book for deadline, which involves the exact pictures and layout of the look book. The final look book will be shown at degree show.

Further sampling.

I have knitted these samples using different techniques to what I have used in my previous final samples to show more variation within my portfolio. I wanted to create the same feel and gradient of colour and so have still used inlay but with drop stitch and racking as well to create different areas of transparency and solid colour.

Initial visualisations.

Initial visualisations are working well, I like the transparency of the pieces and them giving a hint of how they could work on the body.

Now I am going to create more detailed visualisations, still using the tracing paper but drawing over the top.

Using monofilament and inlay.

I think the use of monofilament has added structure to my samples which works really well and the use of inlay gives an illusion of floating transitional colour which is really successful. I feel that my samples are working well on the body as well as hanging by themselves as they create interesting shapes.

I now feel I should sample in this final week without using mono filament and elastic to add something different to my portfolio. I plan to carry on using the idea to create a gradual colour gradient, however in a different way than previously used, with racking, drop stitch and using more creams and hidden colours. I also am going to create visualisations of my samples to give more of an idea of how it could be worn on the body. I want these to reflect my theme and be clear and effective images that work with the shapes of my samples and shapes with in my research.

Further layering. Projections.

I feel that my samples are really working. They reflect the feel of my theme, appeal to a high end market and I have explored shapes and layering on the body and feel photography of this has worked really well. I would like to create a look book that can show my samples in this way and fully portray my theme.

To create further depth and layer to my samples I have used projections of my previous photographs and ink drawings onto my final samples. I feel like works well as it is another way of viewing my samples, focusing on layering and colour.