Category: Integrative Studio

Living Person

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I categorized my reflection of these two semesters as Blue, white, One, New, and Loneliness. I think the colors and what I felt during the whole year can be tied together with the various meaning of the words. I wore the final pieces of my clothing by myself and took photos. I decided the angle of the photos by looking at the fashion magazine and get the inspirations from it. Also, I choose the spots that do not really busy with colors to make my clothing pop up such as white or blue. In addition, I did not really feel pressured about the styling because I try to be natural with these clothing. All of my photos are taken in natural atmospheres and I also tried to be myself during photo shots while in these clothing.

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Living Person

 

 

(Full clothing shot)

 

(front view)

(Back view)

 

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Process photos

(making bucket hat)

(jacket’s 90% done)

(cutting  patterns  for  pants)

(putting pants all together with wasitband)

(assembled pants before putting paints on)

(painting pants)

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Living Person is three assembled items of clothing. My original idea was making clothes that related to street fashion style. For me, this project was successful in expressing my first idea that related to street fashion. I was trying to mix Van Gogh’s style into modern street fashion.

From Van Gogh’s self-portrait, he was wearing a big size jacket with a warm hat in his house. He was having a hard time with living because his artworks were not really selling well. His living was hard but he did not give up his art. I want to show his identity by his brush stroke style which is on the pants.

Hat, jacket, and pant is the one piece because these should be worn all together for this time. Pant is made for comfortable shape and the jacket is made with big size because I thought with his living condition with no money could not let him choose any clothing he wants. He might get clothes from another person. The hat is deep and can hide the face that can also hide his injured ears.

I used the jersey fabric for pant to focus on comfort and canvas fabric for jacket and the hat to show rough feeling.

I learned so many things from this project. I am not a fashion major but I start to get some interests in fashion because making clothes by my hand was a fantastic experience. Designing clothes and have experiences of making several types of clothing was giving me lots of basic information about the clothing. I can see how jackets are made and the hat’s structures.

I would like to learn more about the pattern making to create perfect clothing because I think I could do better if I had perfect patterns.

 

1st photo – model Park June Sung’s instagram

2nd and 3rd photo – Magazine “Dazed”

I want to express some loneliness or dark, or blue mood in the photos to express Van Gosh’s lonely life.

I will add some photoshop effect with some mixing of Van Gogh’s painting in the photo.

 

Living Person

 

 

(Full clothing shot)

 

(front view)

(Back view)

 

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Process photos

(making bucket hat)

(jacket’s 90% done)

(cutting  patterns  for  pants)

(putting pants all together with wasitband)

(assembled pants before putting paints on)

(painting pants)

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Living Person is three assembled items of clothing. My original idea was making clothes that related to street fashion style. For me, this project was successful in expressing my first idea that related to street fashion. I was trying to mix Van Gogh’s style into modern street fashion.

From Van Gogh’s self-portrait, he was wearing a big size jacket with a warm hat in his house. He was having a hard time with living because his artworks were not really selling well. His living was hard but he did not give up his art. I want to show his identity by his brush stroke style which is on the pants.

Hat, jacket, and pant is the one piece because these should be worn all together for this time. Pant is made for comfortable shape and the jacket is made with big size because I thought with his living condition with no money could not let him choose any clothing he wants. He might get clothes from another person. The hat is deep and can hide the face that can also hide his injured ears.

I used the jersey fabric for pant to focus on comfort and canvas fabric for jacket and the hat to show rough feeling.

I learned so many things from this project. I am not a fashion major but I start to get some interests in fashion because making clothes by my hand was a fantastic experience. Designing clothes and have experiences of making several types of clothing was giving me lots of basic information about the clothing. I can see how jackets are made and the hat’s structures.

I would like to learn more about the pattern making to create perfect clothing because I think I could do better if I had perfect patterns.

Done with the 2nd Garment

Still, need some work for the neck part

 

I will work with the 3rd garment in class.

Reflection

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I was working on the 2nd garment last week and got some good result of it. It was interesting to work with jersey fabric and I can see how to handle it. Also, figuring out how to sew the pants was hard but also helpful to me to understand how the pants work. After putting bands for the waist, it was a little bit challenging to put waistband in the pant, but it created the good looking. In addition, I put some paints on the pant to show Van Gogh’s painting style but it was another challenge to me. I tried my best to make it similar to Van Gogh’s brush strokes but I do not know how it looks like but I like it. I will start my 3rd garment in the class today because I changed some of design of it (which is hat).

98% Done with the 1st garment

Cut out all of the patterns for 2nd garment

 

I worked with the 1st garment last week and it was fun and hard to do it because the canvas fabric was heavy and thick so I broke 2 of my needles. Also, the collar part of the jacket is still on process. I am working with the pants right now. I used the white jersey fabric and I cut out all the pieces for pants. I will keep working on it.

 

Snapshots for Week 1

 

Simple patterns that I made for Jacket and pant

 

Thick black canvas fabric for the jacket and the cutting fabric.

 

Short Reflection from this process –

• I made some patterns with my taste for the jacket and pant. Also, I was happy to choose the fabric that I like to have usually for my clothing. The cutting final fabric part was fun and exciting with a little bit of nervousness because I did not want to mess up the final fabric by cutting mistake. However, while the process of drawing a pattern on the fabric was also the fun part because I can put some arrangement on the fabric. For the front part of the jacket, I made some shape and length arrangements for esthetic. Additionally, I am still struggling with the collar part because I need to figure out the best shape of collar that I want for the final piece. I will put the jacket’s pattern all together in tomorrow’s class and working on the pant later.

As I choose to design the three-piece of clothes, I inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s painting and his life story.

This can show the relationship between the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving”. In this exhibition, Frida Kahlo represents herself into her clothes design. Every single clothes by her were created very carefully. She put meaning in each fabric and colors of the clothes.

She knew what is her style and what kind of clothes she needs to pursue.

From her clothes, I can see how she expressed herself into her daily clothes.

My clothes inspired by Vincent Van Gogh, I want to show his life into my clothes with the design and color choices.

Most inspired painting is below here.

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Clothes of what he is wearing in the portrait gave me the idea of my jacket design.

Some of the color choices of my clothes will be coming from this painting.

 

The way Vincent Van Gogh spent his life was very harsh and hard. He was always starving and did not have enough money for a painting.

He was lonely and had a hard time with mental issues.

 

 

 

 

For the jacket

(black canvas kind)

 

For the pant

(sportswear fabric)

with some color paintings on it

 

 

• Vincent Van Gogh

When I go to the MOMA from my class, I saw Vincent Van Gogh’s painting. It was the first time to see his painting with my eyes. Personally, one of my favorite artists is Vincent Van Gogh. Some people told me that is so cliche and stale to considering Van Gogh as a favorite artist. However, his painting moved me and touch my art a lot. From the moment that I saw his painting from MOMA, I fall in love with his color choices, and brush strokes. I really wanted to use his paintings for some of my assignments.

As lots of people know, Vincent Van Gosh had a gloomy, sad life. When we look at his portrait, I can see his pain and effort, and love toward his art.

His self-portrait with bandaged ears shows his love of art and his life of pain. I can feel that he wanted to finish this portrait even he had a really bad mental condition and health problems.

Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait with bandaged ear)

I want to use this painting as a color palette for my clothes. I will pick some point colors for my jacket and pant. Also, I will put his unique brush strokes on my pant to create patterns.

 

 

Also, I got some inspiration from these paintings below.

 

Olive Trees

 

• I saw this painting from MOMA and this helped me a lot to get inspired about the color choices.

Starry Night

 

 

Frida Kahlo Exhibition Response from Michelle Byeon

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Frida Kahlo Exhibition in the Brooklyn Museum was very impressive to me. At first, all of her clothes were about her idea about Mexico, government, and relationships between other countries. Her fashion items related to Mexico’s traditional clothes style were expressing her idea that she considered  Mexico’s tradition as important of protection needed. In my opinion, I think using her identity as Mexican and putting her idea about her country into her artworks such as clothes or photos of her portraits. I saw one of pull set of top and skirt with Mexico’s traditional style that containing her identity that was very beautiful with the color of Mexico. Also, the earrings that made by her husband, and herself was impressive about the detail because I did not know how people can be that detailed in that time. Almost all of her jewelry made by her were worn by her in photos of her portraits. Looking at the photos of Frida Kahlo and observing them was an interesting part of this exhibition that I really enjoyed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This object was an interesting thing to look closely because corset for Frida Kahlo means lots of thing such as her life story. Also, she made a lot of artworks that related to her accident and her baby into a corset art.

For me, the leather corset was interesting to look at because the design of it was thoughtful and elegant.

 

Finished

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This final clothes is called Lake because what I am thinking about the mood of silent lake is similar with the color of the clothes. I chose these garments because those are the style that I usually match with for outfit, so I can combine them into a different style of clothes that I like. I like to look around the tech wear, so I got inspiration from that. The garment 1 (white t-shirt) is cotton fabric and the garment 2 (pants) is polyester with cotton mixed. The most time consuming part of this project was reconstructing the patterns into a complete t-shirt.  I like how the final clothes comes out because I put lots of pockets on the t-shirt with some arranged design. Also, I was very inspired from how the clothes are made and how the threads are holding fabric together from deconstructing garments.

 

general shots of garment

overall shots for garment

 

 

deconstructing garment

 

deconstructing garment 2

 

 

made the patterns

cutting off the patterns and organized how to cut or sew

planning out the design

 

 

pockets took off from the garment 2