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My Final Structure...

My Beautiful model Emily...

I kept the drape at the front of the gown untouched...I lift it natural and to do what it wanted...I pressed the edges folded so it mimics the look of a seam ?

I fitted the Jacket very shaped so that it is tight at the waist and rounds the bust area...

The mix of lengths and the fullness at the front, rather than the back keep it looking contemporary rather than looking like costume...

I think all in all it worked very well and looked good on the Catwalk...

Gainsborough's Blue Boy

I love the sheen of the fabrics and the richness it communicates...

It looks like the taffeta I choose ?

Perhaps...

[My structure was the result of an old dress from 1786, folded in a trunk in the attic, and ignored for years...becoming found again and then being torn apart and draped onto a jacket from 1976 ? work together to look slightly punky ? reminiscent of the beautiful times where Aristocrats were looked up to and respected, when meters of fabric was used for a day dress ?]

Influences

When you come to a sticking point, the best thing, I find one can do, is go and look at things...

I started looking through some photographs of my sketchbook...

These Images give a really good impression of my thinking behind the structure I want to create...

I then went on to look at some Designers work...

Isabel Toledo

I like the drape of fabric...

Oliver Theyskens 

Again I like the drape and sheen of fabric....reminds me of a Gainsborough Painting

RCA Graduate's work...

HAOFENG LI

I like the Layering of the fabrics and the shredded, hand made feel...

My Structure

Looking at shape for the front...

I tried to keep the contradiction of the garment in re cutting a back panel in the feminine taffeta...

My Structure

These Pictures show me looking at shape and developing my structure...

  

I really liked the idea by being inspired by the act of shaping and draping on a stand, the natural and raw beauty of it...

I really wanted to it to feel like a work in progress...

like an amalgamation of thing I have learnt 

I Like the Idea of the Garment being a bit erratic in its lengths and be asymmetric...