Paper Garments

“I even made myself a pair of sandals by cutting and wrapping paper around my little five year-old feet!” - Lia Griffith

Griffith's paper dresses all started when Xerox commissioned her to create a couture ball gown from their recycled prints. She has created more then 20 paper dresses that show in galleries and on runways.

I personally like her designs as they are very detailed and intricate. I would like to take inspiration from this to create my own recycled outfit.  

Bird Feather Sculptures

These eye-catching sculptures were created by a British artist called Kate MccGwire. The feathers flow in a unified direction which gives the sculptures a pattern. This also gives them a organic feel because it creates the feeling of movement. I think it would be really interesting to create a garment using bird feathers in this way.

If you would like to see her work in person, she is currently showing work at these exhibitions: Le Royal Monceau in Paris, Gaasbeek Castle in Belgium, the Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2013 in South Korea, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum in Cheltenham, and the Viewing Room exhibition at the Marylebone Church Crypt in London.

Nintai: Origami-Inspired Geometric Dresses

These dresses were created by Uruguay based designers Mercedes Arocena and Lucia Benitez for their thesis project.  Their collection uses the aspects of origami such as folding, creasing and building of the structures out of rectangles and patterns without the use of paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yumi Katsura Spring 2013 

Supperyachts by Zaha Hadid

 

Zaha Hadid, a world-renowned architect, revealed that he was doing a design project that would create six superyachts. He collaborated with Hamburg-based shipbuilders Blohm+Voss to create a 128-meter yacht that then served as inspiration for five smaller luxury boats that are known as "Unique Circle Yachts". Each boat is said to be uniquely designed for their owners. 

  

Hadid says, "As a dynamic object that moves in dynamic environments, the design of a yacht must incorporate additional parameters beyond those for architecture – which all become much more extreme on water. Each yacht is an engineered platform that integrates specific hydrodynamic and structural demands together with the highest levels of comfort, spatial quality and safety."

 

The yacht he designed is pretty incredible. It is very stream lined and I think it resembles water when you look at it from above. It has a very organic look to it. I would love to own this boat because it is unique.



My Sustainable Collection

I am doing a sustainable brief for college which involves me designing a collection for a label. My label was called "From somewhere", which uses cut offs to create their garments. I talked about the 40 designs I did for the label in a previous post and how I chose eight of them to be on final boards. Well these are my final boards but I had to drop two designs to make them fit on.

For my collection I only designed dresses because as a designer that is what I like to design and the label created mostly dresses. My target customer is a mature elegant woman who is ecologically and ethically conscious. To convey this I used a elegant figure on the board and designed garments that would suit my customer. 

I went for a blue and green colour scheme, which I took from the current trends I researched (To see the trends I am talking about click here). I didn't use the bright colours in the trend because it didn't work for my target customer. The function of the collection is evening wear and it is also sustainable because I decided it would be made out of cut offs from Speedo.

Pablo Jurado Ruiz

Pablo Jurade Ruiz is an artist based in Spain. He creates these incredible black and white portraits with Pointillism techniques. This is were the artist uses tiny dots to create their illustration or painting, which become blended in the viewers eyes.

I like how detailed his work is and I can only imagine how long it took to do all those dots. The portraits are very realistic and I think they show emotion.
 

  When explaining his work, he says, "I like to talk about love, disappointment, nature, childhood…and I show it in a glance, a gesture, or a detail as if it were a metaphor of life."
 

 

 

40 Designs

For the current brief, I have to design a capsule collection for a label we were given. As I have said on a previous post mine was "From Somewhere". To create our collection we had to do 40 fronts and 40 backs of designs. I didn't find it that hard to design for another label. Although you have to stick to their style, you can inject some of your own in there which I found made it easier.   

These are all my designs. I then narrowed it down to just eight designs. Below you will see the final eight which will be drawn on two A2 boards for my portfolio.