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Zero-Waste Garment: Asymmetric Pleated Skirt

Zero-Waste Garment: Asymmetric Pleated Skirt

The project is to to use one yard of selected fabric and to make a garment without wasting any of the fabrics in the method of draping or pattern making. 

Concept Moodboard

 

Fabric Moodboard

Sketch

Development


Final Sketch

 

Patten Making on 56″x36″ Pattern Paper

 

Final Patterns (Waistband/ Plain pleats for left side x2/ Short box pleats on right side/ long box pleats in middle x2)

Muslin Prototype 

Fabric Experiment in pleats (Black Corduroy)

Final Product Process 

  • Cut Patterns and mark indications of pleats

 

  • Iron and refine the pleats; experiment on mannequin during the process

 

  • Insert the zipper on right side between the two plain pleats

 

Install waistband with interface and hardware

Final Product

 

 

Photoshoot on Model

 

 

 

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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