Project Assignment:
Select your Person, Place, and Thing- it can be whatever! With your selected items, create 3 preliminary fashion sketches for each item, due week 1. Then, combining elements from your preliminary sketches, create a final fashion illustration.
Sketches for final illustration:
Elements used:
– the sunset colors of the Binary Sunset to create a dreamy, tie-dyed color palette
-knit turtle neck from Piaf’ designs combined with a dress from sunset design for a wrapped semi modest, semi showy crop top
-quirky balcony design of Casa Battló as a voluminous knit design at the hip
-mosaic detail of Casa Battló morphed into ambiguous tie dye shapes
Preliminary Sketches:
Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in the film La Môme (La vie en Rose) I love Piaf’s music and seeing this film was very cathartic and beautiful, Cotillard’s performance was extraordinary in how she captured the painful, dramatic life of Piaf. Piaf’s wardrobe style very much reminded me of Chanel also as in the film, from the clothes she was shown, she always chose to perform in the simplest black dress.
Casa Batlló in Barcelona I admit I haven’t actually been here but the architecture is so stunning. It’s like a mermaid castle and I’m sure that stumbling across this building in the city would bring a smile to anyone.
Binary Sunset in star wars I’m lowkey a star wars fan. The scene where Luke looks out on the sunset with the two suns is just so beautiful and I hear the soundtrack in my ears. Kind of reminds me of the sunsets at the beach back at home too.
Artist Statement:
Through this project, I enjoyed pulling inspiration from my Person, Place and Thing to create a totally new, original idea for a fashion piece.
What’s interesting is how simple the guidelines were, yet the limitless possibilities as an outcome. There was no need for a deeper meaning or revelational thesis- it was simply choose 3 of your favorite things. Yet by examining what draws us into them- is it the colors? the shapes? the feeling?? we then can borrow bits and pieces, and fuse them into something new.
I enjoyed creating these iterations but my main challenge was the illustration part. I would have an idea in my head for how it would look in real life, like a specific knitting technique or the weight of the fabric, but I had trouble depicting them as a watercolor painting. I tried one illustration at first but was dissatisfied as she looked like a cartoon character, so the second time I focused more on invoking the feeling.
In the end, there’s still more that I’d like to improve on but I enjoyed playing with all the combinations. It would be cool to create this garment in real life one day.
