Alternative Fashion Show...1 year on

Last year we had a fashion based project which ended with a catwalk show of our garments at the Alternative Fashion Show at Spitalfields market.

I recently booked the photography studio at uni to finally take pictures of it for my portfolio.

Final Samples from the Garden Project

Garden Project Research & Development

A couple of pictures of work from my sketch and some samples developed from them.

Beaded top from the Alternative Fashion show

This is a close up photo of the beaded top I made for the Alternative Fashion Show shown in the post below.

Alternative Fashion Show

Yesterday was the Alternative Fashion Show in Spitalfields where everyone from 1st year textiles at Chelsea showed their work.
Working in pairs, with the project title 'Modern Folk', we both chose a tradition to research and develop ideas from. I designed the top part of this outfit, originally looking at a Bulgarian masking tradition called Kukeri. I was inspired by thier use of bright colours and beading. The entire top is made from beads and ribbon fed onto wire and connected usng jump rings.
My partner for the project designed the skirt, and started off looking at Chinese New Year. From this she looked at flower motifs and creating a textured surface from looking at the dragons used in the dances.

Weave

Knit

Digital print

My two scarves designed using my own drawings scanned into photoshop and manipulated.

Stitch work

A few photos of my recent stitch work from the 2 week rotation at uni.