Exaggeration

Looking into exaggerated silhouettes

Illusions

Looking into illusions and mind tricks.

“Something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality”

Visualisation

Tricks of the mind. P.O.V

A picture within a picture

Starting research: Synesthesia

What is does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color? These uncommon sensory experiences are examples of synesthesia, when two or more senses cooperate in perception. Once dismissed as imagination or delusion, metaphor or drug-induced hallucination, the experience of synesthesia has now been documented by scans of synesthetes’ brains that show “crosstalk” between areas of the brain that do not normally communicate. In The Hidden Sense, Cretien van Campen explores synesthesia from both artistic and scientific perspectives, looking at accounts of individual experiences, examples of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature, and recent neurological research.

The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science by Cretien Van Campen

To start my research I thought I would look into Synesthesia which collaborates the different senses. I was inspired by the exaggeration and hallucination of it, as I do not suffer with synesthesia I thought it was interesting to explore how it could possibly be through imagery.

 

FAD competition

For my first project for year 3 I must enter a fashion competition.

Brief – FAD COMP

This is going to be interesting….

 

Toile

Toile of dress with cord on top and hair fringe.

Side pleats

curved back neckline

binding down the side to separate the panels

Toile of skirt and crop top. Going to add a hair fringe to the underside of the arm.

Finalised Digital Print – What do you think?

So this is my finalised print, which would go into selected panels into my designs. would really love some opinions on it :).

Print created from photography, experiments and drawings.

A little bit of Fringe!

Inspired by the classic Native American Indian look I wanted to play around with the idea of using fringing in weird and wonderful ways., and instead of using the usual fabric fringe I decided to experiment with black hair extensions reflecting the Native Americans beautiful long black hair. I hope this works!

Neck tie

Classic necklace fringe

Shoulder fringe

Playing around

Shoulder pad

Back Cape…not sure about this one!

Double shoulder pad

Plaits

Stand work – inspired by bones…

Inspired by the way in which bones are layered in our body, such as the ribs or spine. These pictures are just me playing around with some pleats within pattern cutting.

Playing around with cardboard on the shoulder and centre back.

Taking my idea into fabric.

Playing around with pattern cutting and pleats

This was actually a mistake, I had sewn the lines the wrong way which resulted in a reverse pattern. I actually prefer this to the more 3D one!