Bones

 

So due to my upcoming deadline at uni my blogging has been rather slack, but since handing in my bones design project yesterday a huge weight has been lifted off of my shoulders and I'm so pleased with the final outcome. Yes, hands up, I admit it's not the most amazing designs or illustration skills you'll see in the world but I can see myself that I've made huge progress since I first started uni in September with my design skills.

My project brief was entitled "Bones" and I was required to look at prehistoric mammals and sea life that inhabited the earth many years ago and how I could use the structure of their bones via looking at the skeletons of these mammals and take design inspiration from this to eventually make a garment. The main source of my inspiration during this project was taken from a visit to the Natural History Musuem in London, in the late November of last year. The pictures that I took here really helped to enable me to look and work into the structure of the skeletons and how I could perhaps transfer this into a design.

 

Through my research for my sketchbook and after looking at various parts of the different mammals skeletons from the phtos I took during my visit to London, I decided I wanted to mainly focus on both the structure of the ribcage and the spine, as even though you would think both these parts of the skeleton within different mammals bodies would be the same, despite the size, I find out otherwise. This gave me something to work with and ultimately intrigued me as I wondered how I could incorporate this into my design work.

 

Beginning to become slightly stuck on how I could incorporate either the structure of the ribcage and or the spine into my design work, and ultimately how I would also manufacture the look I designed, I looked for inspiration and came across Elsa Schiaparelli who created the skeleton dress (pictured below) in the 1930's this dress was something along the lines I had envisioned creating within my head, however due to the fabric we were going to be given to work with, sadly this wouldn't of worked so I turned to pleating.

Experimenting with wadding, polystyrene and pleats within my sample development sessions I began to become more aware of what I wanted to achieve within my final designs, this resulted in furthering the experimentation of pleats and wadding in order to represent both the ribcage and spine.

 

 

 

 

My final designs are something which I believe fully represent my in depth research and sample development experimentation during this project and I can't wait to make my final design of a peter pan collar shirt and a pinafore with pleating representing the ribcage, so keep tuned and hopefully in 4 weeks time it'll be made, I'm currently in the process of pattern cutting so it won't be long now.

 

 

 Let me know what you think of my designs and the project and I shall promise to try and blog more!

                                                    Jess xo