designer research and muse

Kanye West
My Muse for my whole collection is Kanye West. He is a person who likes to dress to his own initiative, very creative and fashionable man who stands out from many men around him.



Warrior Wear
My research pushed me to look into Japanese warrior wear and protection, which influenced most of my final designs.






Merisa Merz
Marisa Merz an artist i discovered in a Trip to the Tate Modern, her influenced mine and added detail to my final designs.

Inspiration

I started to research artist that inspired me and my work looking into banksy and glenn ligon. stenciled work is an interesting look which is why i chose these two artist for inspiration. i came across Glenn Ligon on a trip to the tate modern.

week 7

Embelishments

Working on samples of my chosen fabric and at the same time combining it with my groups word (wrapped). I have used knitting which follow around the word wrapped, and embellished the knitted piece with a few beads which warped around the structure of the sample.

MORE COMING SOON.....

Using lager beads and a smaller needle for the technique of the knit.

Week 6

Pattern MagiC

Working with difficult but very creative Japanese 2d patterns, to create a 3d garment and based it around the concept of wrapped. the pictures below are from the final structure of the patterns drawn out and put together.

week 5

Wrapped
Final concept of wrapped on mood board 1

Week 4

Wrapped

To find the concept of the word wrapped in a group of six. Coming up with six different meanings which connect on a mood board on wrapped.

our group found individual meanings on the subject after talking and word associating about what we feel the word means to us. we found images together to bring forward our meaning of wrapped.

Below are the images brought together before putting them as a story board.