Garment Photo Shoot

So these are the edited photos from today. Enjoy.

Garment Experimentation

I wanted to create a garment with the 'mould' fabric from earlier and decided to make a long skirt with it. I have used the free stitch and let the threads hang down. Professional pictures to come... 

Wire Dress

One of my favourite designs that I created for the Bath Spa mini project was the all wire dress. I was really interested in actually creating this garment full scale. As the dress fitted with my current theme, I took the decision to make it. It took a while to think about how I was actually going to make it, I didnt want to actually weld the dress and wanted it to be very structured. By bending and shaping the wire, I have managed to make a very structured design. I like the outcome and think it will show it off more when I take location photos of it, but for now here is what it looks like (promise it will look better when worn)

Happy accidents GARMENT CREATION

So, when I was creating my cut out image of the power station, I spray glued it. It just happened that the rough card that I used to put behind the image when spray gluing, was black. The spray glue stencilled the cut out part of the image onto the card. From this accident, I came up with a really interesting idea. 

Originally I was going to use white spray paint onto black fabric. After spending ages cutting out my stencil, the spray paint bled onto the fabric and didnt work at all, this meant I had to think of a different way of creating a similar effect. Cutting out a new stencil, this time I sponge printed white paint onto the black fabric.  This worked really well. My first idea was to use the 'mould' fabric in my previous post for the top of the dress, but I then changed my mind and thought it would look better if I used the stencil on white fabric and printed in black. The final dress has turned out really well and I am so happy with the result. I plan on taking professional photos of this, but this is just to show you for now. 

More work on derelict buildings

These images that I have created have been made by using paper cutting, I cut blocks out of the top images and placed a colour copy of the same building but from a different angle underneath. I have then sewn into the images highlighting key aspects and adding the natural growth which was visible all over the building. I like the idea that the moss and trees are growing out of the building. Using Rachel Grant as inspiration has created an interesting idea. Her work also uses buildings, she has used free stitch to highlight key areas. Also she has included other images within her work, similar to that of mine. The piece that I have created uses brusho in the background to represent the moss and mould on the walls. I dont think this was as successful as my other ones, but it is still interesting. Working with this series of photographs and free stitch I plan on creating a garment. 

Rachel Grant
barewall.co.uk

Samples and ideas- derelict buildings

I wanted to create an effect similar to mould, the look in the image below reminds me of the mould growing. I have used dyes to create this. I decided to then work into the fabric print created using free stitch. Trying bright blue thread to represent graffiti was unsuccessful in my mind and I dont like the design this creates. Slightly more successful was to use natural green and brown threads to sew more 'mould' patches, the threads were then left to hang down, similar to the work I did on pictures. I plan on using this on a garment. 

Reem Alasadi

Looking at Reem Alasadi's work has inspired my lace skirt. She uses found objects to create garments, these can be both vintage and modern. I have used lace which was bought from a charity shop and draped it on a mannequin. I took greatinspiration from the 'thrown together' look of Alasadi's garments. She has also used a similar black and white colour scheme in a selection of her Twisted Oliver collection 2012.
Here are images from this collection below...

reemalasadi.com