Photoshoot

The dress finished as it was in the show, photographed in the studio.Thanks so much Sarah for being such a great model...xxx.....

Fitting of my 'Mock-Up'

Here are a couple of shots taken on my 35mm, Pentax ME Super. Sarah trying on a mock up for the dress.




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Sun-Dress:the process

While thinking about the process that I could use for my prints for my fabric, I came across a process called 'blue printing' or 'cyanotype' which was discovered at the end of the 18th Century as a means of developing photos by sunlight. So i found out the names of the chemicals and managed to order them on line. After blowing up photos of my environment, subject matter for my prints( the process was almost more important than the prints themselves in this project, as it adhered to both the ideas I was investigating of things responding to sunlight as well as being sustainable(by not using harmful chemicals or having any wastage)).
First I mixed the two chemicals together and put them in a dark bottle in the dark and coated the fabric in the dark, which in my case, was the bathroom, with multiple layers of newspaper to soak up any excess. This was then allowed to dry in the dark and then once dry taken out, with my images on acetate and then pinned on to the fabric which was being stretched out on foam board. It was then left to expose in the sun, whereby the images where transferred to the fabric and then I could take the acetate off, and my fabric would be printed. After washing out the excess chemicals, I hung the fabric out to dry. Here are a couple of photos illustrating the process.

Sway 'Sun-Dress'

Sway was a fashion show project in which we were asked to draw information from movement in nature. I was looking at phototropism; how plants and flowers turn/bend towards the light, maximising the light that they receive. I made a short time lapse to illustrate this.

Although the plant does not grow that much during the video which takes place over a day, you can see the shadows changing throughout the day and I thought it was still great for my project because what is the significance of light without shadow?

Illustrating the Muse

The idea was to somehow visualise the prints you had done so that someone else could imagine the kind of idea you had for the final part of the design process. I decided that I wanted to contrast my soft, moody and somewhat feminine prints with a more tailored utilitarian or almost military masculin-like look.

Muse

Muse was a project which comprised of six final prints that we took to exhibit at Indigo, Premiere Vision in Paris at the beginning of February. This collection was inspired by the poetry of Khalil Ghibran, a Lebanese-American poet. The prints themselves was made using a combination of chalk pastels and oil pastels. They were then digitally printed onto a Crepe de Chine. The top layer seen in the next post is Silk chiffon, hand dyed and painted to create a suggestive layering effect.






This design(below) was sold to Roberto Fantoccoli, an Italian based manufacturing company.