I went home last weekend ( 4th-5th Oct), it was really good seeing my family and it was nice just to tell them face to face what I’ve been doing and telling them properly about my projects. My mum was really helpful and sent me back up with loads of scrap fabrics to use. On Tuesday we brought ten images into our creative approaches to fashion session and we used the image to create interesting shapes on a model. I think I learnt quite a lot from the lesson, though at first I made the mistake of focusing to much upon my models, wasting time upon faces and putting in background washes, which I was told stops the flow of ideas when your trying to create new and interesting shapes. Next time I will definitely focus more upon the shape and save the model drawing for illustration. I also have decided that my image could have been better and if I had chosen one with actual objects in it I may have been able to create more innovative shapes. However I’m going to take more photographs for my project and then I will do a similar exercise with a more ideal photograph .
I also got two books from the library today they turned out to be really helpful: one is focused upon my chosen designer Hussein Chalayan and the other looks at culture within fashion. In both books I’ve found some really interesting images that I’m going to photocopy and work over.
Friday was actually really interesting as well, I found the work on seams we had done upon the industrial machines, the Friday before quite difficult and it dragged me down a bit. So I had presumed this Friday to be the same but it was so good it got me really excited about design realisation again. We looked at dart manipulation and created step by step samples upon how to do them. I found the whole lesson really exciting and I was really proud of myself for understanding and following it all.