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.