Clover Canyon A/W 2014-15

Clover Canyon are one of my favourite designers and always feature in each project of mine as I feel my work relates to them. I always revert back to Clover Canyon when I'm deciding on how to place my prints on garments. Canyon's collection heavily feature placement prints which are cleverly placed on garments. This collection featured faces and so it was good to see how they had included this feature into their own work.  The position of the figure and what it was put with really fed into my own work. This collection was based on their Irish heritage using icons such as Oscar wild and features such as tartan and stained glass windows, because the prints were so dizzying the styling needed to be simplistic. It is good to balance this, I feel styling is a big part of my work and helps the final collection work together if I think about this aspect greatly.

Final Flats

After doing my original flats and speaking to Teresa in my tutorial I realised something had to change. The flats were too busy and the placement of the prints weren't working very well. After doing some more research on designer T-shirts but also looking at Vanesa Krongold's collections I decided to bring colour blocking into my work. I started to play around with colour blocking different sections of the T-shirts, I really liked the idea and I think the flats look good. I tried hard to colour balance the board so you could see the whole palette.

Digitally Printed Fabric

I am happy with the outcome of my fabric. I feel some have worked better than others such as the lighter coloured ones. The darker prints detail seem to have gotten a bit lost, I do like the contrast between the dark and the light. I do know for next time to tone down the darkness a bit otherwise information and motifs go unseen.

                                                 

Professional | Employability

Over this project I have been concentrating on the Professional and Employability unit. I have done two weeks of work experience , but as well as that I have been working on my CV and applying to companies for work experience. I am currently in conversation with JW ANDERSON to intern with them in London for a month in summer. 

Vanesa Krongold

A/W '13

A/W '13

S/S '12

S/S '12

Vanesa Krongold is a designer and stylist from Argentina, I have only recently come across her work and I have been extremely inspired by the contrast of vibrant prints and colour blocking. She uses panels of colour blocking against her digital and graphic prints. I am currently working on translating my prints onto tshirt flats, I have been using this idea of colour blocking on some parts such as sleeves or panels to break up the busy print.

Printed Fashion Illustrations

I have been placing my prints onto fashion illustrations, this is for my live brief part of the project. I am going to continue playing with the illustrations, playing around with scale and the various garments. Also using various colour combinations from my colour palette to make the collection work better together as a whole.

Libertine A/W 2014-15

Libertine have used typography in their work this season , words taken from the poem ' Sorrow of Love'. They have used them as a graphic prints on overcoats. They have also screen printed their garments and used hints of bright colours such as acid orange. There isn't a standout colour in any of the collection but subtle hints of a range of vibrant colours.