2.3.5. Focus Thinking.

We spent this week pinpointing and identifying our muse, deciding who we are aiming our designs at and for. We chose Missy Peregrym owing to the demeanor of her personality, thereby describing our muse as boyish, sleek, laid back, grungy and sporty.

In our group we decided on a range to plan, design and develop, using illustration collages as a starting point, then extending by using each design and determining how much we could push a design feature in more detail, upscaling and reducing certain aspects of the design and then refining.

With our range plan we decided to continue with the idea of sportswear, specifically which garments we were going to have in our collection. Looking at repetitions of shapes and aspects of garment design as a common, identifiable denominator throughout the range but developed in an individual direction within each garment. In a similar manner to how Marni and Prada have taken design aspects and manipulated them to be different or used a new way but still running through the collection.

Top Row- Marni 2015 ss                    |                   Bottom Row- Prada 2014

Working as a group we spent some time doing stand work with the karate suit discovering how it could be manipulated in different ways. Alongside this, the girls who specialize in printing projected their prints on the stand to see how they would appear placement wise.

This week I am continuing develop my sampling, bringing gradient to the base colour of my knits, in addition to working with the look and feel of yarns and materials, contrasting matte and shine adding a dimension to prevent the colours from blending into one.

Subsequently I plan to spend time undertaking stand work with my knits, in conjunction with more design development of my illustrations.