Its in the details...

I think the details in tailored jackets are beautiful...

especially the stitches; angles; shapes

My Jacket...

This is my Jacket, Prior to its reconstruction...

I really like tailoring and how it can create shape, force the body and empower you...

I love the inner details of tailoring too...

the paddings; shoulder pads; linings; interlinings; fusings; facings etc...

A few Sketchbook pages...

Where Sketch books are concerned, I try to make them as visually stimulating, whilst keeping to my style of presentation...

With images, I like 3/4 on a page (unless it is showing the making) clean lines or really ripped...

I really enjoy my drawing, I think it has an urgency, a good sense of line...

It suggests something...

I am not a great believer in spending hours and hours on a sketchbook page, it should be quick and instant and record and show observations; notes. 

Alexander Mcqueen: Savage Beauty...Inspiration

Flicking through my Savage Beauty book, I came across a few picture of designs of Mcqueen's that best represent an element of my personal design aesthetic...

they are really inspiring and are the kind of thing id like to achieve in the feel of my garment...

Elegant and destroyed

ethereal

destroyed, worn, impoverished, wanting, hoping

curvy, feminine, exagerated

Structure on a human...

After a while of experimenting onto the stand, we started playing with the structure and placing it onto a member of our group...

this really gave a good indication to how the structure looked when it moved and interacted with a moving human being.

Some of the details....

Some of the details of the Glue and Cloth structure where really interesting...

I could very well see some of these as details on garments...

Could be translated into a shoulder/ hip detail ?

The ink on the fabric really adds a difference and interest to an otherwise prescriptive structure.

Experimenting with legs...

Looks quite flattering, despite its knicker like appearance, good scope for looking at skirts? developing into skirts ?

There is something very Japanese to the shape of this...

The mix of shapes is interesting...the way the swirling forms interact with the draping and the stretched pieces. 

In other experimentation...

 I really think this was successful...

I like the Asymmetrical, slightly exaggerated shape and the placement of colour...

This is something id like to develop further...

It contrasts subtly, but is in harmony...

The structure that we used was one that our group constructed in our own private study time. 

The structure on the stand...

I like the fact that this creation couldn't have been designed on paper. The shapes and angles that have been created are beautiful...


there is a real sense of wildness mixed with a refinement...


It hangs off the female form in an edgy way...


I quite like the process and would love to do it again in terms of a final garment ?

The structure on the stand...

quirky, edgy shapes

something very organic...

Swirling forms, nude and white and beige...

I really like the shoulder detail...looks like it is boned