It’s the final two weeks of my foundation course and it’d be the biggest understatement of my life if I said things were hectic. I’ve began seriously toiling and considering some final outcomes accompanied by sketches and I’ve been developing my work – working with a lot of metal-imitation media or actual metal itself. My fascination right now is with copper plates and that could is quite heavily influenced my El Anatsui {Also one of my contextual artists} and his use of recycled litter i.e. coke cans, bottle caps, metal packaging and such and he created a tapestry type installation that I saw in the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
For this – likewise in the previous post – I’ve attempted to create the copper covered leotard fully. However when I attempted this I found the shoulder pad an increasingly difficult feature to deploy, the fabric drape would be too heavy and simply drag down or ruin the structure – so I began sticking to more simple methods – I created the leotard with the sleeves and then I want to continue to add copper plates – gradually covering the whole of the garment.
Here is the made and finished stitched product being modeled by a fellow fashion student.
Front view of the long-side-sleeved-leotard.
Black jersey happens to drape incredibly well.
And here’s my latest idea –
Front
Side
Close up of the pleating at the back.
With the avant garde skirt I plan to make a metal corset.
The skirt is pleated accordingly to a pattern I found in the creveces of a cracked glass shard – it was clearly smashed however there were interesting patterns that streaked through it’s side and I copied – traced and developped this for the this skirt piece.I only need the metal corset to match and that will be one of my main outcomes. The metal corset will be quite heavily influenced by Dolce & Gabbana’s metal corsets collection also, and initial sketches of various items in my initial research sketchbook.
`Mistune Mistyle . 