final major project | `Mistune Mistyle .

After an early January trip to New York – which was also the research week of my 10 week project, also known as the final major project of this course, I settled on the theme of ‘Lustre’ – before making this my final idea I considered other topic names such as ‘lights’ or ‘Reflective Surfaces’ my other choice would’ve been ‘magnitude’ but I settled for ‘Lustre’.

‘Lustre’ came from the wave of inspiration that I felt standing on top of the empire state building. The city was lit up and looked like a path of stars trailing across the floor. It was stunning. I wanted to translate this into my own fashion project but little did I know how difficult it would be.
In my statement of intent, I clearly noted that I wanted to create fashion that included shine but I wanted to use unconventional materials in hopes that I’d be able to make something quite eccentric {isn’t that what fashion’s clearly all about?}

So I began looking at things that possessed obvious ‘Lustre’ such as glass and mirrors and metals, but mostly glass – I began finding the cracked contours of it really interesting so looked into that. As for the rest of the items – it’s an assortment of household items that were reflective and shone in some way. As my work developed I got really interested in metals and started basing my project around that.
I looked at the shapes that my initial sketches formed and tried to translate that into a silhouette for a garment.

As the weeks flew by I began toiling . . .

I will upload more sketchbook work & sewing ideas later.
This is just to get my blogging hiatus off the ground.
I’ve been rather negligent I know – But for the final few weeks I’ll jam my very slow beginning of this project into a full episode.