Sampling of Illustrators Work

After researching into the fashion illustrators, I have sampled their work to see which techniques I like and which ones I feel will represent my capsule collection best.

Here I will show my 3 favorite illustrators that I mentioned in my last post;

Carlos Aponte-

 Stina Persson-

Sara Singh-

Fashion Illustrators

We have been researching into several fashion illustrators to gain inspiration for different techniques to use for our final boards. There are a few illustrators I like the best.

Carlos Aponte is a really interesting illustrator. I really like the way he uses the masking tape as I've never seen this technique used before. I think the way he creates texture and movement is really interesting and i think on a black background it looks really effective.

I have always admired Stina Persson. I really like her use of ink and water colour and I think her sense of colour is also very innovative. I like the way she blends the colours together to create different effects and textures within her work and it looks so effortless yet so stylish and glamorous.

Sara Singh is a very fresh and young illustrator. I think her illustrations are full of volume and fun. The mood of her work is very stylish and I would definitely like to use her style of illustration for some of my final boards as I really admire her use of media and think her style is very effective.

Modelling on the Stand

Recently in class, we used calico to model on the stand using different design principles and trying to incorporate the golden ratio. 

 Here, we pinned each side of the fabric into the middle of the mannequin. This created symmetry and also had aspects of line and tucks. It created 2 upside down triangles as well which relates back to shape and the golden ratio.

 On this mannequin, we used the same method as above at the waist but changed the top detail of the garment. Again we used symmetry, and created more triangular shapes with draping and tucks.

 Full view of above mannequin. Silhouette is hourglass.

 Here, we used draping around the neck. The silhouette was quite natural and flowing and we created a sort of waistband where we tightened the calico at the waist.

 Close up of draping collar.

 On this mannequin, we decided to add n some darts to show how a natural fitting dress would sit. We left the body tighter than the arms which were left to drape and hang loosely. The silhouette we used here was a more natural silhouette, here the darts show that the dress doesn't have much shape to it.

Dress darts up close. 

Toile Diary

Firstly I started off my trouser by tracing out a basic trouser block. I then adapted my pattern to fit into my design.

I made the waist higher, and made the trousers angle out at the hips like on my design. I also lowered the crotch and tightened the legs and the bottom.

I also drew out where the panels were going to be on y trousers as well. The next step for me was to trace off the separate panels and add seam allowances where necessary.

inside leg FRONT

 second to top piece BACK

 outside leg BACK

 inside leg piece BACK

 outside leg FRONT

top piece BACK

top piece FRONT

After I had my pattern pieces, I then proceeded to to cut them out of the calico. As my trousers are mostly made up of panels, the only piece that was cut on the fold was the top front piece. I then started to piece my trousers together like a jigsaw, I found this surprisingly easy and I followed my large pattern to see which pieces went together.

Here, I had started by sewing the top back pieces to the two second to top back pieces, making sure I had lined up the darts so that they matched. This was definitely the hardest part of making the trousers as the darts never seemed to match up perfectly.

I then did the other darts on the front with the front top piece that had been cut on the fold. I attached the piece to the 2 outside front leg pieces and then attached the inside front leg pieces to the outside pieces. Now I had the front part of my trousers complete.

I then made up the back part of my trousers by adding the top part I earlier made up to the inside and outside back leg pieces. Now I had both the back and front pieces made up and was almost ready to sew them together, although firstly I had to insert an invisible zip.

Now i had to sew up both the outer sides and insides of the trousers to make them whole.

Here is my finished toile, I took close ups so the panels could be seen. After trying then on, I realized that they would have to be changed slightly as they were too big all over. So I put them on and then pinned them in place where they needed to be taken in, and took the measurements.

Rather than redoing my whole toile, I then made the amendments to my paper patterns and then started to create my final trousers. My final trousers fit perfectly with the new measurements.

I made sure that I faced the top of my trousers to neaten up the edges, and then I turned the bottoms of my trousers up 1 cm twice and hemmed them.

 Front

Back


I was very pleased with the final outcome of my trousers, as they fit how I wanted them too, and the panels lined up accurately which was at first quite hard to master. The darts didn't line up as accurately as I'd have liked but I think that might have been down to my patterning.

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Favorite sustainable designer

After researching many sustainable designers I can definitely say that Noir is my favorite.Although quite secretive and secluded, I really admire the stylish glamour that comes with the brand. A lot of sustainable brands are quite natural and casual but what I like about Noir is the fact that although quite simplistic the garments and clothing is beautifully made.

And the fact that Noir uses mostly sustainable fabrics makes it all the better. It works along side with Illuminati II, which is a sustainable cotton brand and this is where Noir gets the majority of its fabrics from, it promotes sustainability as well as glamour and style and some of the garments are amazing.

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