For fashion we had to look at creating a garment made only from paper and cardboard, that could be worn by both males and females. At this point in the project I was still looking at my Lolita collected items and so decided that a skirt would be the easiest thing to make that would fit and could also be easily worn by everyone.
When searching for examples of this and influence for my project I came across a piece made of crepe paper by Anayeli Sanchez, which included a matching head bow. This interested me from the Lolita aspect as the skirts often come with matching head bows.
I was also previously aware of work by Lolita inspired fashion student and designer Cyril Lumboy aka Doll Delight who once made a Lolita silhouette inspired dress, again with matching headbow from newspaper. She is an avid follower of japanese street fashions, making using her as an influence for my project perfect. In 2008 she was placed first in the University of Phillipines Harajuku Fashion competition. She has been a guest at many lolita events and also modelled for her own Lolita inspired brand- Doll Delight.
As the brief stated the garment must be able to be worn by both females and males, I also looked at J.W. Anderson's 'MEN IN SKIRTS' catwalk collection to tie that aspect in. His Men In Skirts project was described as a streamlined take on androgyny. Some aspects were said to be pushed too far into femininity, although these were my favourite pieces of the collection. I enjoyed this part of the project, as I am a strong believer that fashion is genderless, and so finding a designer who worked with skirts for men was enjoyable for me. Also as I enjoy fashion drawings, I particularly enjoyed drawing my design onto a male template as well as a female.
By looking at these I gave my garment a unisex aspect.
My skirt design.
When it came down to the actual making of the garment I first started looking at methods to manipulate the paper into themes often found in Lolita garments, such as bows and ruffles, as are displayed on my experimentation page. I decided to include the bows in the final piece, as well as bows cut out from cardboard.
Again, as with textiles, I looked at Hayden Williams for influence for my fashion drawings, I feel like their work fully encapsulates the proportions and feel of fashion drawings, however I also appreciate that they incorporate the face of the person who's outfit they are designing.
Hayden Williams' costume design/fashion drawing for Beyoncé Knowles' tour.
My fashion drawing of what I wanted my skirt to look like - left uncoloured due to the fact that the paper I was using was white. Photo taken from my experimentation sheet.
I also decided again, to add another aspect of illustration to the project, as this was the area I wished to specialise in, to include some digital work, including a finished fashion drawing, and a drawing of the skirt I created on the mannequin.
My final sheet for Fashion, I did an A1 illustration of my created skirt on the dress form, working from the photos that I took of my garment.
I used black marker pens of various sizes, as well as thinly applied watercolour for this.
Evaluation:
Fashion was one of my favourite areas, despite not enjoying working in 3D very much I found the design aspect to be very me and I did not particularly mind creating the garment as there was not too much work involved in it. It tied in easily with my collected objects meaning I was inspired with ideas from the beginning in this particular area, and having done it after textiles I already had ideas of how to tie the two together along with how to integrate fashion drawings into my work, something that has interested me since high school. The research for this area appealed to me as it felt meaningful to the end result. I would have liked to take proper photographs of my final garment, perhaps modelled by both a male and a female to fit the brief, however due to time restraints I was unable to do this.
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