collect/shape.

For my collect work i looked at Martin Margiella, and i also looked at native american and colloquial war costume. I wanted to combine the ideas of traditional vs contemporyand embrace shape making in a more abstract way then i usually do. Im used to pattern cutting from design work as opposed to working on the stand although i enjoyed working in this way i found it difficult and realise my strengths lie in more commericial designs.

I began looking back in to my research and pulling out different influences i came up with this toile:

In my research i concentrated on embelishment mostly. The form fitting body con dress is influenced by how the women dont wear much clothing and is to show off the female form, and i found their costumes bore a lot of fringing and beading and embellishment so i decided to add the shells. I originally hole punched as a means to attach the fringing and really liked the asthetic so decided to add it as decoration at the top of the dress.

I was really pleased with the toile, i would make the final garments from leather to keep it more contempory looking, and could see that fringing could be a cohearent link throughout a collection and could be added on to different garments.

Although pleased with toile i feel i could develop this further and make it in to a more convinving wearable garment and concept.