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Bridge 4: Construction Week 3

Bridge 4: Construction Week 3

Bodice Construction 

Stitch the yarn onto the embroidery water soluble stabilizer and connect the separate pieces. Cut the pattern out of the complete “fabric”.

 

Darts

 

Zipper

 

Yarn decoration along the arm hole

 

Finished Piece

 

Link to Construction Week 1: https://portfolio.newschool.edu/yitingzhang/2019/04/12/bridge-4-construction-week-1/

Link to Construction Week 2: https://portfolio.newschool.edu/yitingzhang/2019/04/19/bridge-4-construction-week-2/

Reflection

In this week, I finished my second ensemble piece, the straight skirt and started my last ensemble piece: the textured bodice. Through the process, I kept looking back to my prototype and saw the great differences, especially in my skirt piece. The ideas kept getting revised and innovated due to the exploration of materiality. I found myself interested in creating works out of my own expectation and enjoy making changes throughout the process. However, in the process of creating the skirt, I was aware that I’m not brave enough to take over a kind of material and make full use of its materiality. In my projects in the future, I will still focus on exploring more materials that I haven’t tried before and make something innovative out of a simple material.

Yiting (Brianna) Zhang is currently enrolling in the BFA program at Parsons, declaring her major as Fashion Design. She was born in Shanghai, China in 1999, the year of which significant changes on financial development and city planning were happening in Shanghai. In this city combined with the antiquated and modern culture, she finished her middle school and first year of the high school education. Then she spent three years in New Jersey, living with her host families and finishing her high school study at Union Catholic High School that was located in Scotch Plains, NJ. Throughout the years living with her host mother who is also an artist, she has been influenced and inspired by her a lot with regard to relationship between nature and humans. Since the first time when she got to deal with the volume and stories fabrics can create and tell, she has decided to dive deeper into playing with fabrics and fashion. She is also looking towards the sustainability in the fashion industry when fashion production has become one of the biggest threats to the environment. Accordingly, she believe that fashion can be reformed in a better direction and it can make certain changes to the world. Over the past years, she have obtained diverse skills and qualities, including strong leadership, playing percussion instruments, Latin dance, and of course, skills regarding to her current major, Fashion design.

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