Group Jewelry Work

• In the class Me and Kangqi made two pieces of earrings by the limited material and in the limited time. The material we got are paper, wires, and watercolor. We decided to make earrings because it is small because we didn’t have that much materials. I made the structure of both earrings and Kangqi made the pendant. We collaborated perfectly, and finished it in time.
• For me, jewelry  don’t need be expensive but it has to be meaningful.
• In Bridge, I want to make something that is not very common in our daily life. Necklace, earring and ring are common, but headdress, wearable jewelry, body piercing jewelry are not that common, so I want to make something like that.

IDEAS

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FIT EXHIBITION

There are two fashion pieces that I saw in the FIT museum. The first one is a red body shaped modern corset . This corset is from Issey Miyake, a designer brand from JAPAN. It is made of bustier and red molded plastic in 1983. The second piece is black velvet evening dress from YSL.  In the exhibit, the model is wearing this dress and walk out of the grave which creates a feeling of death.

Both of the  two pieces draw the outline of the female body shape, so they are tight and looks very elegant. Furthermore, these two fashion pieces all shows a different kinds of beauty of female, it express the power of woman and the dangerous of  sexy. In addition to the semiliarites, the  choice of materials of there two design are different. For the red corset, the designer uses a unusual material which is plaster. Even though it is plaster, but it also shows the soft curve of women body.  Black velvet is the fabric for the YSL dress,  velvet is a expensive and luxury fabric. It is soft and comfortable but designer also creates a dangerous feeling.

The first week of construction

The three garments of my design are a corset, sleeves and a skirt. For the first week of my construction, I made my muslin pattern and sew them together. My artist is Salvador Dali, and my design is inspired by his fashion style. Salvador Dali loves suits, so I included many suit elements in my design. The process of making my muslin pattern was the most difficult part of my design process. I used a size 6 mannequin which is a little bigger than me, so I had to fix the clothes that suit my body. Spending more time in the step means saving time for later steps.

LP Post: Research: 3 Photo Shoots 

There are 3 photo shoots that inspire me

This photo is from Ellie Baygulov at The Portland Studio.

I choose this photo because the background is very clean so that the details of the clothes are clear. For my own photoshoot, I want to find a similar white background and a chair from the classroom to make a simple “studio” like that.

Photographer: Leslie Zhang

I like this photo because the gesture of the model looks so weird and confident. i like this quirky style so for my own photoshoot I will try to make some wired posture and angles.

Coco Rachel wears total look VERSACE for DSCENE ISSUE 10

The use of light in this photo is very creative and interesting. The red light added a natural filter. Light is very important in photo shoot, I will make sure the light in each photo.

Seminar and studio are two related course that have the same topic but different approaches. Seminar is more about researching but studio is more about hand craft.  It was very necessary that  reading some articles and research paper while I was designing and making the clothes, so seminar class is the place that offers me all that writing and reading works. After I got all the background information and thesis in the seminar, my designs got a meaning behind them, it has the culture and social background and my own thoughts.

This is my “I’m..” sketch, I named it “I am treasure”.

This is the process of pattern making.

My prototype

My swatches and fabric. Satin, canvas and gauze.

The reason why I chose Salvador Dali as my artist is that his personal image is as strong as his paintings. To design clothes based on an artist, i need both the artist’s painting and himself  are strong enough to give me an illusion. Dali is famous for his dream-like oil painting, but his personal style catches people’s attention. He likes exaggerated patterns and colors such as leopard print, purple. He is obsessed with  suits. When I searched his image online, most of the pictures of him was in nice suits.

My work is based on two parts of Dali. His personal fashion style and his paintings. suits, upward moustache, and his dream-like painting.

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Examples of his works

My jewelry project is a set of headdress that composed by six hairpins  , inspired by a Qing dynasty golden headdress that I saw at the met museum. My fur headdress is made by the fur that i cut from my kitten.

There is a story behind my project. Last week me and my roommate was giving a grooming to my kitten juju by ourselves , but my roommate accidentally cut juju’s skin so we had to go to the emergency pet hospital. During that night I realized that how important juju to me. Even though we didn’t grooming Juju successfully but I kept the fur that we cut off and decided to make my studio bridge 2 by that fur.

After I got those fur, I started to do some experiments with different materials that i have.  I did The first sample by fur, rubber and watercolor, and glue them to  together  by hot glue gun. After that, i found out another better method to play with the fur—wool felt.

I will keep posting and adding my reflection later.