Backwards & Forwards

Working on Fiona's garments, final detailing. 

Nadia has created this amazing pattern herself and got it laser cut at the university. She asked me to bond it with another material. 

Up until now it hasn't been a massive problem working for two 3rd years, as Nadia hasn't really needed my help or simply neglected my existence - I can't really tell the difference. But I have a feeling that these final few days before the show (Thursday) are going to be fun. 

Drum roll please.... 

Let it all begin! 

Busy As A Bee

Nadia's trousers are too tight on the model! And she's was working on her final trousers as well! Tutor and technician trying to work out what went wrong. 

Nadia gets told that she should always toile in fabrics that have similar properties to her final fabrics. 

Fiona trying to come up with a creative idea to present her line up to the panel at the fashion show. Here we are trying to heat transfer her line up onto acetate.  

 

Fiona also wants to make some face masks, heat transferring creepy faces on to acetate. 

Fiona's fitting. 

All coming together slowly. 

Bibs and Bobs

I wasn't able to finish of the shoulder pads yesterday so I continued working on them today.

For The Love of Fashion

So after spending 16 hours on fabric manipulation, Fiona got told that the result was too bulky. And so the unpicking began and a new method stepped up to the game - if only we had done that to start with, as that only took a total of 4 hours. 

All Day

As it happens in stressful times disasters strikes - Fiona's shower broke and needed the maintenance guy to fix, which turned out to be a bit of a hassle. 

So instead of meeting at 11am as agreed, Fiona ended up meeting me a 6:30pm. Lets conclude that that is a long time to be delayed. In the meantime she asked me to research; David Nash, Christo & Jeanne Claude, Chris Jordan and Joseph Beuys (they are all environmental artists). 

Fiona also asked me to pick up her embroidery from the print technician Sonia - plus ask her about printing on acetate. Sonia suggested using a method called sumblimation printing, which I had to Google when I left, as I had no clue what that was. You learn something new everyday! 

Shepherds Bush

I was sent to Shepherds Bush to collect as many fabric samples as possible of a Duchess satin. Not neccessary an easy task, as there aren't many places that sell it and even few places that are willing to give out fabric samples. 

16 Hours Later...

After almost reaching the brink of madness by looking at the same grey fabric for days, I finally finished pleating the piece. Let me remind you that I did this by hand! It only took me 16 hours in total...