PHOTOSHOOT OPTION #2

Above: Suzaan heynz Bottom- Ellen Salmistraro

This is another alternative of style in photoshoot. Using a more scenic background to make a garment that is quite crafted and unique more relevant by putting it in an everyday background, or a scenic background that can be linked back to ordinary life. This can also create a fashion forward and more commericial aesthetic, which if I want to go that direction, would benefit my designs. However, though I'm still undecided...i think i'm leaning towards the plain white background.

PHOTOSHOOT OPTION #1

Above: top and centre -Katie gallagher, bottom-anonymous from ebay
(all images found on pleatfarm.com)

the photographers for these shoots have not been mentioned but the simplicity of it really appeals to me. I feel that using a simple white background will keep the aesthetic and mood simplistic yet innovative. It also sets up focus on the details of the garments.

I want to do a shoot for a look book? I want it to suggest simplicity yet I want it to be edgy and fashion forward. And I want to be able to show details, and I feel this can create that. I just feel that a simple white background has a clean look to it, which is relevant to origami being so sharp, straight to the point and the association of white to paper.

Dress #3

This design....I once again have used the long sleeve dress pattern as a base garment. What I will do is just shorten the sleeves! I want to create a bulk of texture using the origami around the neckline. And once again I want to use the eyelet feature. Whether it be on the back or the front I am yet to decide.

Dress #2

So here is what i plan to do for another final. Using the origami for the skirt, I will use the long sleeve dress as a starting point for a strapless fitted dress. The eyelet feature will be at the centre front. And the opening will be at the centre back using an invisible zip. I don't know if this will be a smart move (considering the amount of time that I have) but I actually plan to line these dresses. I don't think I will toile this design but just go straight into it, as I am seriously running out of time... And I want to do a photoshoot for the panel.

FINAL DESIGNS!?????? #1

Hahaha! so i took almendra's idea of inserting my ideas on the actual image itself... so here I've dodgily used 'microsoft paint' to alter my images. So anyway, as one of my finals, here is what I have finally decided to do....

I'm taking the assymetrical dress idea and have simplified it. I feel the origami texture would be best enhanced in a less complicated body. So I'm still using the asymmetrical idea but I've also decided to incorporate...*drum roll please*.... eyelets. The reason for this is because originally I had wanted to use macrame with my designs but I didn't know how to incorporate it with origami. So I felt that using some sort of lace or thread can still create that feel!!

In this designs I have decided to make the waistband bigger and use the eyelet feature on the front waistband. The skirt will be an asymmetrical one, short at the front and longer at the back. i have already trialled this but for a totally seperate design outside of this class and I feel it would allow for a unique and yet simplistic aesthetic. I will bind the edges of the skirt.

shoulder dress

In this design I have just toiled sections. With an asymmetrical neckline I wanted to use origami as a decorative feature on the shoulder. I don't yet know what size i will use and the amount that I wish to attach.

The shoulder

lessening the amount of origami folds.

Using only small origami folds

I actually prefer the minimalist aesthetic of the last design.

other final....or the quest to one

The origamic folds that I am going to apply on simple base garments need stiff fusing. Right now I think I will use random sizes but this may changed as I finalize my designs.


So I have used a long sleeve dress as a base garment. I think its best that the base garment should be simple. I trialed positioning the origami folds in different sections to see which would be most effective. Below I have trialled the origami folds around the neck.


And here I've shortened the sleeves to see what else I could do. I am quite fond of the short sleeves textured at the neckline. Maybe this can lead to another design.

first final?

So I've taken the idea of the origami folds above the bust from my previous toile and have used it in a more fitted dress. I've also applied pleats down the centre. Then using the yakko san origami folds that i have fused and altered slightly, I have tried to texturize the skirt.However while on paper this design appealed to me, I feel like the pleats and folds near the bust take attention away from the textural origamic folds. therefore I feel this dress either needs to be altered or shouldn't be used as a final.

more inspiration

Here are just additional images of inspiration by Elena Salmistraro. Discovering these images were like gold to me, as they really portrayed the type of aesthetic and bulk that I had invisioned in my mind. However, as I am very limited to knowledge on folding, I will interpret the original origami folds I had played with on the mannequin to begin with in my own personal style. Now it is just a matter of TIME!!! 3 and a half weeks to go!!!! Lets see what I can come up with in that time... I feel like for the past months I was just walking in circles, directionless and afraid of being so limited in skill, but finally I've found the inspiration that I have needed all this time. Its weird how you always realize what you want to do towards the end when time becomes your worst enemy. But lets see how I go shall we!?

INSPIRATIONS to move forward

So as I've mentioned, I'm slightly baffled with where I am going with this collection. Time is running out and I'm beginning to stress... however Eva had introduced me to this website in the previous week called pleat far ( www.pleatfarm.com ) and it is absolutely amazing and truly inspirational. Here I have managed to find a whole section devoted to tessellations and folding, and while I have failed at any attempt to work with tessellations, I do appreciate and love the appearance of such a textured look. So I want to use this notion of texturizing or creating bulk using origami. but before I do, here's some more inspirational images from Anna O'neill that has once again reignited any excitement i had for this beautiful craft of origami

Anna O'neill

to pleat or not to pleat!?

Basic Skirt

Side FrontBack

Once playing with some pleating... I applied it to a basic skirt as an over layer type of thing. I initially wanted these random pleats to texturize the skirt but the outcome has not appealed to the aesthetic I was hoping for. So as of now... I don't think I'll further this exploration into pleating. I know that if I rearrange the pleats, and reorganize that I can get a different outcome... but I don't think I will use it. As I feel like I'm straying away from where I was originally looking at! And I don't want my designs to look commercial...so I guess I need to reevaluate the direction I want my work to go.

Pleating Maybe?

So I've moved on to trialling pleating. I don't exactly know where I'm going with this but it's worth exploring I suppose. I feel that pleating has such a strong relationship with origami considering it is all about the folding. And on top of that, pleating can really enhance a design.

So above, I have just played around with some paper folding asymmetrical sheets of paper. I have also considered the role pleating could play in my designs and attempt at origami... and well, I have yet to discover a means of applying pleating in a crafty way.

WORKING PROGRESS

So here is an update on what's been going on. After my paper trials on the mannequin I applied the exact concept to a dress with a flared paneled A-line skirt. There is actually inverted pleats at the seams of the skirt panels but it can't really be viewed in the photos. My biggest concern with this design is that it is too simple in aesthetic, although pattern making was a whole different story. The origami-like folds are fused on both sides and because of this the seams were quite difficult to sew. It also required trimming, similar to that in tailoring.

Through this toile I have been questioning myself on how I am able to use origami in my designs... considering my technically challenged nature in pattern making. Maybe I will return to this design and rework it, but as for now... I will leave it at that.

on the stand

I'm a little delayed with my posts... so I apologize. I did some work on the stand a few weeks back. I actually did the pattern first before realising that I should've put folds on the stand to understand where things should be positioned. This process really helped me with my pattern. I do however feel weary working on a stand because you I often get very experimental and excited and end up creating something on the stand that I am absolutely inLOVE with. But then I only screw myself over because I find it really difficult to transfer on-the-stand work onto my draft.

origami inspirations

Here is an awesome link I found called the digital t-shirt projecct.
It was done in 2008 by Mashallah Design and Linda Kostowski and above are photographs of the final product and just some of the processes involved in creating it. It exemplifies origami as a form of architecture. It is just so structured and calculated. It's amazing and so intimidating appreciating such pieces.

The link is:
http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/digital-tshirt-project

But you all must check out www.fashioningtech.com in general. It is an amazing website that showcases a small community of fashion craftsmen. Browsing through it has really WOW'ed me.

SCOTT ACUS ANTHONY

http://scottacusanthonyfashionsculptor.blogspot.com

Here is another example of an origami interpretation in a garment. the look is completely different to the first set of images of my post. These garments have a more looser, random and layered approach. It is quite inspiring to think how this could have been conveyed in paper, however I think it was done on the stand. But I guess you have to work on the stand to understand where each fold should go.

my attempt at ORIGAMI

My knowledge in origami is still very basic, and my direction with this craft for my collection is still quite unclear. Nevertheless I decided to play on the mannequin with some surface decoration using variations and random sizes of origami that stemmed from the 'yakko san' and the 'monetary gift money'. They are the two easiest things in the world to make so I felt it was more relevant in my case coming from a failed background of knowing anything about origami. But this is a learning process and I'm enjoying it.

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I am still trying to figure out whether I should use origami as a decorative surface feature or work the concept of folds and angles into my patterns. I would love to incorporate origami in both forms but at the same time I want my collection to be cohesive and really flow. I don't even know how complex I will get with this. I mean, have all these ideas overflowing in my mind but I am limited to the amount of time I have to complete the toiles and the final pieces. At the same time I am not too confident with my skills in pattern making to device such complicated designs.

Playing around on the mannequin has been a good starting point. These are just random experiments of origami in the form of surface decoration. I am quite excited with these experiments as they have allowed my thought process to progress. Now my only worry is how to transfer this onto fabric and how it would be attached to what I can only assume would be a body which acts as the base. My next class will be devoted to incorporating origami in my pattern drafts which I hope I will manage to do. I also plan to trial different types of fusing to create the right stiffness for angles and crisp folds.

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origami oh my!

Origami tessellation
Chris Palmer

Above images have been created by Robert J Lang
These include:
-origami tessellation
-origami pattern for a scorpion
-mathematical origami

I've been taken away by a lot of crafts. The one that really attracts me is origami. I'm thinking of using the element of origami in my collection. Whether it be to create the silhouette or decorate the surface, origami's three dimensionality really enhances the aesthetic of garments and makes an obvious reference to craft.

Origami is the Japanese word for folding paper. It is commonly used to create three dimensional objects. I feel it is a compelling type of craft. I am astounded by the angles involved, the patterns and repitition that can be created and the three dimensional structure that can be achieved.

At the same time however, I am weary about taking up this origami challenge. I can't even fold a paper plane let alone understand complicated origami objects. Anyway here are a few images of amazing origami techniques used in clothing, along with some links that have really wowed and excited me about venturing into the world of origami.

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Johan Galliano for Dior '07'
Madame Butterfly


Geomorfos/Geomorphis experimental fashion
MUST SEE!

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