Tailoring.

Tailoring

Tailoring seems to be a very popular in every season, In each season 'Tailoring' is used through out many collections among Fashion Houses, this is not just a modern craze, this technique gained its name in the late 18th century. Here are three examples from two Different Houses,

Comme Des Garcons

I choose examples from the Summer 2011 menswear because tailoring is clearly used in the construction of this line-up.

Alexander McQueen

Here Alexander McQueens 2005 ready to wear women wear, it shows clear signs of tailoring with its beautifully crafted garments,

This is my favorite from the images I choose to showcase 'Tailoring', there is also a suggestion of a 'biased cut' as the garment seems to cling to the body,

Final Eight, Mood Board and Color Board,

The first four above and the last four below, together making my final eight of the pattern project titled "Decay Of Decadence" , I used these two pages from my sketch book as a guide to re sizing my Final eight swatches, all eight were shrunk down by at least half of it original size and remade in the color story,

Final Color Story,

Here is the final color story of my pattern project titled "Decay Of Decadence" ,

Final Mood Board,

Here is my final mood board of the pattern project, titled "Decay Of Decadence", its sets the rustic mood of my project and the decay of something that was once grand,

My Two Fabric Boards,

Here is the way my final eight swatches were presented for assessment,

the actual boards are the color and mood boards sprayed with rust and gold spray paint, this was to give it a old effect and have the swatches stand out,

Board 1:

Board 2:

"Decay Of Decadence", more swatches..:D

Here is the cover and poential mood board for my swatches....they are my 8 final swatches and a picture of a girl in and old worn dress holding dead grass from the magazine "bloom",

Heres my colour story I went with the middle shades of orange and brown,

Bleach on black jersey,

Latex and string,

Lino flooring,

Knit from the knit machine..

Lino and calico tied together with wool,

wool felting,

Hessin and calico dyed orange weaved with a latex pattern on it,

Calico and latex dyed orange,

Hessin and muslin, the technique I used on the muslin is called chibori.

random brown fabrics gathered and stiched on to hessin,

Gathered fabric stiched on to cotton,

Chibori on a larger scale, dyed orange with brown latex dots,

dyed muslin and calico gathered and overlapping,

calico folded in to scale like shapes stiched on, overlapping and dyed witg coffee,

Bark chips attached with orange wool,

calico, loose hesssin, and rug plan covered in paper mache or brown polyester,

Brown and orange cotton string knitted together,

fabric gathered and overlapping,

My two final fabrics,

Swatches..:) Decaying Wood....fungi

Basically I'm looking at the idea of dead piece of wood and the fungus that grows on it and works it way through the dead wooden flesh,

Front,

Back,

Front,

Back,

Front,

Back,

More Swatches..:D

Inspired by this pattern,

Front,

This one is representing decaying park bench seat, its had a padded calico couchion with holes in it over a Hessian back with latex on it,

Back,

Decide to spray paint the back to make it more interesting,

Inspired by this pattern,

Front,

This swatch is done by Knife pleating and brown spray paint of one of my patterns,

Back,

Left the back plain so as to focus on the pleating,