SEW OVER IT! Final Graduate Collection
My Final Graduate collection named SEW OVER IT! Is highly illustrative and print-based visualising the anxious thoughts I face when sewing and pattern cutting. These fears had started to become ‘monsters in my head’ of which to take control of I creatively illustrated and combined my fears into garments, generating canvases to hold my illustrations and prints, projecting the overwhelming scale my thought amount to through the medium of prints. I have drawn sewing machine monsters, moody princesses, and pattern cutting tools to give off an aura of childhood dreaming and dress up to escape the chaos of the mind.
The mood/story board of my Graduate collection, I was inspired by strength in fear and Brick Lane street art of which I documented my "fear" of sewing through illustrative prints.
Brick Lane primary research capturing the eccentric elements and mood of the street where no brick is left untouched from creation and illustration. "We stop looking for monsters under the bed when we realise they are inside or around of us" Charles Darwin, the childhood monster under the bed fear is replaced as our adulthood worries and fears that hold us back from achieving our true
Creating the sewing machine of doom via refacing and illustrating the sewing machine, personifying my fears to life.
The fabulous muse of the collection Grayson Perry dressed as his alter ego Claire. I examined and explored Claires amazing wardrobe choices in order to design a fitting collection.
In approach to my final collection I explored what fashion meant to me and how it has always played a significant narrative in my life, particularly with my strong and stubborn approach to style. At aged 3 refusing to wear trousers preferring only dresses I could twirl around in. I researched the theatrical stances of Claire to inform my dramatic prints.
Exploring early toiling ideas using illustrated fabrics and colour in order to create and generate the idea of garments as canvases
Half scale colourful toiling.
The eccentric bright colour pallette and design research from the collection featuring an array of mood boosting colours.
A print board of the collection.
Illustrated print board of the collection.
The full illusteated printed fabric line up of the collection. All of the prints illustrate how I feel when I pattern cut and sew, and are named by such feelings.
Researching the sewing room a place where I once felt scared and full of fear, the full fabric exploration of my collection featuring layering due to the collection being marketed for Autumn/ Winter 21, and soft cottons and fun fabrics such as terry towelling and felt in order to reference childhood comfort and protection.
Trapeze based design developments.
Fabric and silhouette informed design developments
Voluminous toiling, more is more!
Print visualisation at my toile
Visualising the finished final line up.
Pick your polo neck, the 4 jersey polo necks of the collection.
An example of Look 4 technical flat pack, with prinr placement.
The final fitting, with one of my would be collection models.
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Companies
Graduate Fashion Foundation
- Fashion and Textiles
