the info behind the collection!!! - line ups should be fun, if not fun gaga!!!!

My muses for this collection was Anna Piaggi and Lady Gaga. I choose Piaggi because of her fearless use of colour, print and accessorising. She has been around the fashion industry for a long time so has learned, down to a tee, how to mix and match lots of different colour and prints and at the same time keeping if very cool. She isn't afraid to wear what she wants and because of her knowledge knows what to wear. These are attributes I took from Piaggi.

My other muse was Lady Gaga. I choose Gaga because of her ability to shock people with her clothing. Because of her age she is not afraid to show more flesh, wear interesting and thought provoking clothes and push test peoples tolerance. I took her fearlessness of making a statement through to my collection because i want the person wearing my clothing to have an identity and make people think about what they see, whether they like it or not i want then to think about it.

For my line up illustrations i used Gaga as my base and through tracing, scanning and photoshop put my garments on her. I wanted you to view my pieces as if they were being worn for real. If it looks like they are meant to be there then I have done my job well plus i also wanted to see what my work could potential be like.

The ones i have pulled out are the ones i like the most because they have worked the best and make the most excited about my work!!!

The info behind the collection!!! - lets toile big!!!

From using the half scale mannequin I transferred it to life size. I quickly learnt that i had to drape to create the shapes i wanted. Doing half scale resulted in being a very fiddle process and would mean transferring all the info to big which in the very short amount of time we had would have resulted in me not having a collection!!! So good idea going big!!! I also developed a tag system which meant that i could quickly put my patterns together without getting too confused!!! ( i can be very easily confused!!! ) The notches where colour co-ordinated, this made it alot quicker and much more fun to look at my insane patterns!!!

I have only selected a few of pages, i thought i would give you the best!!!

If you would like to see more then feel free to email i am very happy to share the madness!!!

The info behind the collection!!! - toile development

As stated before I used the coast line to inspire my silhouette and shape. I cut up images and then used a half scaled mannequin to explore the different starting points for garments. I also used created the shapes looking at the images and using the shapes cut out. I used the textures of the rocks to help inform ratio of embellishment to print and plain fabric.

The info behind the collection!!! - knit develpoment

These pages show the steps i took to create the designs for my knitwear. I used the dancers silhouettes, using all the different shapes pulled from the image to create many different prints. each print is named after the dancer it came from, which is how tell each look when designing.This was a much more fun way of doing things rather than say look1, look2!!!

The info behind the collection!!! - The inspirtation

These are the beginning points for my final collection

The Freestyle Disco dancing world is a big apart of my life. Every aspect of it excites me, from the competing to the music to the costumes, all of these aspects come together to create a world of high pace, extreme beats and beautiful costumes. I took the bold colours, body con outfits and the energy of this world through to my collection. I wanted to create a collection which captured the essence of it all.

In the summer before the start of uni I went away to work for my auntie and uncle in Lawrenny, Wales. On my day off I went to Saundersfoot, a beach i have been going to ever since i was born. I spent the afternoon and evening walking round the coast when it dawned on me what i was missing from my previous project which began this whole collection. Structure. In my last project of 2nd year I didn't have a very considered silhouette. The rocks and stones where the perfect idea, it would allow me to create bold shapes and forms.

I wanted to pull together two completely different starting points because there would be no overlap of idea and each would push the other so that they could create something unique. The rocks where also there to counter the effects of the knit. Knit still has this "nanny" quality about it and I wanted to push away from woolly jumpers and knitted hats and bring some bold colours and exciting prints.