Nearly there.

Literally nearly there and I’ve decided to make one more dress – it somewhat resembles bubbles but it’s actually sourced from a previous photo below that shows a bowl shaped hemisphere glass which is hollow inside with a hole at the bottom.
Here are sketches of the described item;

and here is the image I cut circles from – a page in my sketchbook however I found the shape related to the glass pieces more so I took on that direction.

i did some further toiling and created a really simple response to this dress – if I had more time perhaps I’d cover the whole thing with circles, but I find it rather effective as it is.

Sadly at the time I had no model so I had to fulfill the task of modeling this myself, which was slightly awkward.

The Final Countdown.

As the head of Art Foundation so humourously put it – it is indeed the final countdown and in the final weeks we should be completing our final outcomes and compiling our sketchbooks – to date I have one initial research sketchbook – one developmental sketchbook and around 10 pieces of A1 works – excluding life drawing. In all full honesty my work has been rather scattered due to my repeated fear of confronting tutors for tutorials but I’m hoping in my final outcomes sketchbook I can tie everything into my final outcomes – explaining how I got there, when and where. Ofcourse there’s also the aid of the critical appraisal which is due next week.

Here’s a quick summary of what’s been happening – I attempted to make the skirt and this was a success and a full afternoon spent n the metal workshop allowed me to make a metal corset, at first I’d desired to simply mould and hammer the metal around the mannequin, but after being told that that’d be far too difficult to do I was offered an option of using strips. I took on this advice and instead made a layered metal corset which reminded me somewhat of Dolce & Gabanna’s Metal corset/dress and Giorgio Armani’s logo. Hmm!
The corset itself was difficult to keep on the model as it didn’t flex as much as I’d assumed it to – meaning I had to return to metal workshop and ask for extra pieces of metal to be attached to the corset – and after doing this, the corset managed to stay on the model much better.
Conducting photoshoots has to be one of my favourite perks of doing fashion and so I went scouting for a suitable area – there was a garage door which caught my eye, but further exploring lead to a church which had equally appealing qualities due to it’s architectural structure – which didn’t interfere with my outfit but rather complimented it with it’s geometrical shapes and dusted history colour.

Here is the full desired outcome – it should work somewhat like this at the final show. Aluminum corset & pleated blue skirt was made by me, everything else is models own. The blue skirt was actually influenced by the indents of a certain glass shard, I found this interesting and so I drew the shard, photocopied it and started folding into the crevices which created a pleated effect – I saw this working really well as a pleated skirt feature so I explored this and the outcome was as above. I was also really torn as to having the skirt maxi or mini, but maxi provided the volume needed to emphasize the pleats where as mini gave the skirt freedom and more volume up top.
In the end I stuck with maxi.

At this point I had neglected the copper plates but I had other ideas in mind for that piece.