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TASK04: FINAL PROJECT – ESSENTIAL FASHION (40% - Individual |Week 07 – Week 14)
Description
In this final project, it is important for students to develop their design ideas using skills that they have obtained throughout the semester. This semester students will be creating an “Essential Fashion” capsule collection. The essential items is the must-have items in consumer wardrobe and can be easily transform and match to follow the recent trends. Each student are required to design an essential collection for their target market using design technique learn in this semester. Students required to find their speciality and identity that represent the designer creativity. Experiment with silhouette, texture, and colour mixture is important in this project.
The capsule collection is consist of 15 looks. As the theme of this project called an “Essential Fashion” you may design the collection with a number of recurrent “essential” piece (repeating a certain piece with a different styling / color choice). You are required to discuss with your lecture to select 4 items that represent your “essential fashion” collection or piece that stands out of your collection and start your making them in your Pattern Making and Garment Production Class.
Project Guide:
1. Identify your target market. Think of who are you designing the collection for. This process involves in understanding the targeted gender, age group, lifestyle, income, occupation, and location / where your target market resides.
2. Find your muse. Muse will be someone that you think best represent this collection and a person which become source of your inspiration when designing the collection. You may your muse feature to illustrate your design
3. Create a MoodBoard, Concept Board, and Color Board to help you design the collection and set a direction when you develop your sketches
4. At this point, you may start developing your fashion sketches. Work on the silhouette and pay attention to detail
5. Draw the Finalize 15 looks (front profile – full body – full color)
6. Discuss with your lecture the 4 items you will be making into an actual garments
7. When selecting fabric choices, you may start early (when commencing point-4) or you may decide when you have selected the 4 items that you will be creating as a Final Project
8. Create Fabric Board / Swatches Compilation
9. Create Technical Drawing / Flat Drawing (Front & Back view) for the 4 items you created. Pay attention to details (stitches, opening, texture, embellishment, etc)
10. Capture your final look complete with full styling. You are required to ensure that photos taken with appropriate lighting, capture in a right angle, and appropriate background.
Target Market
My Muse
Mood Board
Concept Board
For the collection, I wanted to do streetwear style. The concept is to create something casual but in a sophisticated way. The whole collection is designed for the spring and winter seasons. Since the requirement is to create “essential” clothing items, most of the main pieces are consist of blazers, jackets, leather pants, long jackets, etc. These types of clothing items will never go out of style and can be styled based on the current fashion trends. Not to mention, everything within the collections is quite versatile and can be worn in many different ways.
Mal du pays
Mal du pays is a streetwear style collection. The collection is designed for the spring and winter seasons.
The Inspiration/ Story.
The whole collection was inspired by my mother's curtain. I got the idea of using my mother's curtain as the inspiration because of a designer Porte Jacquemus when he did a fall 2020 ready-to-wear collection where he reflected on the first thing he ever made was a skirt out of a curtain for his mother within the collection. 'Mal du pays' which means missing home is a collection about how being away from home always reminds me of my mother because we both are really close and she is one of the people I would reach out to whenever I am feeling stressed out about my studies. When I was away from home for a whole year because I was doing my foundation, I visited my friend's house and they also had the exact same curtain with the same vintage floral print on it and it strangely made me feel like I was at home as I was staring at it and it certainly reminds me of my mother. What so sentimental about this curtain is that it used to be one of the first things I would see whenever I entered the main door and it was a curtain that was picked by me and mother when we went shopping for some house decorations years ago. That is what makes it so special because we used to go shopping together before the pandemic.
Fabric Board
Final Line up
The Capsule Collection
Turtleneck Sweater (Prototype)
Front Back
Leather Flare Pants (Prototype)
Front Back
Blazer
Front Back
Long Pants
Front Back
Finish Garments
Turtleneck Sweater (Prototype)
Leather Flare Pants (Prototype)
Blazer
Final Outfit
Blazer and Long Pants
Final Photoshoot
Reflection
I have spent so many hours for days working on every single garment for the collection. What I have realized is that I am starting to get better at using the sewing machine although my sewing skill is still terrible. Even though every item I made did not turn out the way I wanted them to be, I am still satisfied with what I have done here because I really did try my best to turn my sketch into a real piece of garment. However, I am still not going to beat myself up for messing up so much during the making process because I believe it is just a matter of time before I can be better at it and I all I need is just some more guidance from the lecturers to help me improve.
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