I feel like fashion has always been a way to express ideas. Usually there is the head designer, or the creative director, and Fashion is a result of their creative thoughts. They decide what fashion is, they decide what is evidently “in” or what is not. My idea of fashion has changed since the beginning […]
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LP Post #4 FIT Museum Exhibit
Maison Martin Margiela Spring 1997 I have always been intrigued by this garment by Margiela. For a long time I thought that this was a dress form that Margiela had considered his favorite. It was to my surprise when I found out that it was a wearable garment. Perhaps that is the reason why […]
LP post #3
The images above are my dress log entires for February 14 and February 16. While I was writing my dress logs, I noticed that I wear some of the same pieces a lot, and that I really emphasize comfortability. I found this strange because I associate dressing well with feeling uncomfortable, and I was asking […]
The Yellow Lady
For our second Visual Communication assignment, we were asked to find an illustration that spoke to us, whether it was from the colors, or the style and form. I found this illustration in a fashion book at The New School library, and there was something so striking about all of the bold colors. (Unfortunately there […]
Lines that Connect our Past, Present, and Future
For our first Visual Communication:Materiality project, ‘360 Spice’, our group decided to focus on the colors of the cities that we came from. Our collective cities were Nanjing, Maryland, Shanghai, and Los Angeles. We wanted to do this specific installation for our in class presentation because we felt as if the intersections of all the […]
LP Post #2 Versace Jeans
Versace Jeans Couture Spring 1995 In this Versace Jeans advertisement, two women are interacting with each other in the frame. The woman on the left is standing up with a dynamic arched back and holding the feet of another woman on the floor. Both women are topless and looking towards the camera. The advertisement […]
The Innovative Application of Surface Texture in Fashion and Textile Design
Ashley Jung CTS 2: Materiality Sec. M4 Genevieve Jezick 6 Feb 2018 The Innovative Application of Surface Texture in Fashion and Textile Design Texture is something that everyone can understand, we can see and feel texture, therefore everyone has had some kind of relationship with it. I never thought to view texture as the way […]
Aphorisms
Fashion is made manifest in material forms. It demands study in the same way that ancient artifacts are made meaningful by archaeologists: through careful excavation. Fashion comes to life through fabric and other physical materials. Designers visualize their clothing through sketches (2D) and it becomes real when it is sewn or assembled. Some designs are […]
Decade inspired pants project
The featured image is of Salvador Dali’s Soft Construction with Boiled Beans(Premonition of Civil War) For our final project we were put into groups and assigned a specific decade. My group got the 1920’s. Our task with this project is to create a pair of pants and design around what was going on during that […]
Final Dress
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