Our class went to the Met to see the Comme de Garçon and Irving Penn exhibits. These helped to inspire our fashion projects as well as just inspire us in general. Above are sketches inspired by the exhibits. The left picture is  a sketch of Comme de Garçon dress (done in pencil in my sketchbook), and the right picture is a drawing inspired by Irving Penn’s “Dior Dress” (done in pen in my sketchbook).

In order to draw our products, we were taught multiple approaches to product design sketching. The most useful technique was bound boxes, which are shown above.

Above are some thumbnails for the fashion logo. All were done in pencil in my sketchbook. I ended up going with the third logo design.

The croquis shown above were created based off a model who came into class. Each pose was held for 2-5 minutes. The first two pictures are watercolour croquis, while the rest were done in pencil.

My hangtag was in the shape of the O from my material alphabet, to reflect both that task and my circular theme. It consists of four sides. On the first is my logo, the second has a map of where my inspiration was from, and the third and fourth have a description of my production’s inspiration/adaption. The first image is of the hangtag sketch for the laser cutter (done in Adobe Illustrator), and the following images are of the final hangtag.

As I was inspired by wheels/circles (my theme was mobility and transportation), I created a puffy dress with a spherical silhouette to reflect this. I also placed my croquis in the middle of a crosswalk with cars nearby to reflect my theme. The tops of the croquis were done in pen and pencil, the legs of the croquis were done in watercolors, and the garments were done in Photoshop.

My material alphabet word was “stretch”. To recreate the alphabet according to this theme I used Model Magic, as it is pliable. The first picture is of my finished material alphabet (done in Photoshop), and the second picture is an example of a letter made by Model Magic.

I wanted my Chindogu to be easily washable, that way the wearer wouldn’t have food stains on their bow tie after eating. Because of this, I used a rain-coat-like material (nylon) so that stains and water come off easily. As shown above, I tested this theory by spilling ice cream on the material, then rinsing it off and drying it with a paper towel. It was successful, as it looked as good as it did before the ice cream. *Note: The material shown above was not the final product, but a previously created version of it deemed too messy do to hot glue. The material itself, however, is the same.

My final Chindogu was successful. I used nylon fabric and sew-on snaps to create it, and it was hand-sewn (as hot glue was too messy and ineffective with the snaps). Shown above is the process of going from the bow tie to the bib.

The first prototype I created for this project was made of paper and rubber cement. Though it was functional, I realised that the bib was much too small even though the bow tie was a good size. Because of this, I created a second prototype using fabric, hot glue and safety pins where the bow tie could be unfolded to get a bib twice its size. This was much more effective.