Fashion Studio

Garment reconstruction project

The trench coat that I sourced from Beacons Closet

After heavily researching into the history of the trench, I found out that it was designed by Burberry in the early 1900s, and became even more popular during WWII– thus my focus on the 1940’s. The images above are two montages that I created with motifs from the 40’s.

 

Fast sketches, inspired by my research

 

More developed illustrations of ideas that I wanted to (potentially) reconstruct my trench coat into

 

Fabric iterations, of which I made after deconstructing the trench coat– playing around, manipulating fabric to get some further ideas of what I wanted to create/see what I could do with the fabric

 

Constructing process

The final garment– worn by friend, Kelin Dillon

My final montage, representation of my process and research through this assignment