The Making Of My Final Outcome

Whilst making my final outcome, there were a number of things I needed to change from initial plan. These changes were both a result of personal preference (changes to my final design) and for technical reasons (changes to the pattern). For my final outcome, I decided to make a bralette that had a very futuristic theme, and I would make a suspender belt and a collar to match. An example of a change that had to be made during the development of my final outcome, was the suspender belt pattern. Whilst designing my outcome, I had settled on a suspender belt design that meant I would need to have three panels on both the front and back parts of the suspender belt. The pattern I used only had two panels for the back and one panel for the front, this meant that I needed to reshape and adjust the pattern in order to let me carry on making my outcome as planned. Below are images of the pattern that I ended up using to create my suspender belt, after my adjustments had been made.

Another change I decided to make whilst creating my outcome was purely aesthetic. In my initial designs, I had planned to create a collar that was completely made out of foiled PVC pleats, layered up and stitched together closely to give my collar volume. However, once I had actually reached the point of making the collar, I felt that this would be quite a plain garment in comparison to the rest of my outcome, and I believed I could create something better that would match both my bralette and suspender belt much more. Here is the collar that I created instead, it takes aspects from all areas of my outcome, rather than just using one technique like I had originally planned.

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Refining My Ideas

Futuristic designers have been something that I have enjoyed looking at during many points in this project, I feel that I have been drawn to the more sci-fi side of architecture-like fashion. For example, when looking at the work of Viktor & Rolf, I was immediately drawn to the more out there, futuristic collections such as the Autumn/Winter 2011/12 ready to wear collection (http://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/autumn-winter-2011/ready-to-wear/viktor-and-rolf). This collection features a very simple colour palette, and I was particularly drawn to the silver pieces, as I felt that these had the most impact.

Whilst experimenting with the bralette pattern, I decided to look into the work of Maya Hansen (http://mayahansen.com/). Her futuristic designs inspired me to create one half of a bralette which incorporated PVC, silver lamé and white organza. I used machine embroidery in a triangle pattern on the cup which was made out of PVC and organza, to which I added an organza gather on the edge to give it an attractive finish. The bottom two pattern panels were decorated with simple straight stitch stripes on PVC and lamé. The final mini outcome has an interesting futuristic, almost sci-fi quality that doesn’t look out of place when put beside the work of Maya Hansen. I really like this sci-fi look, and I would like to explore this theme a little more as I feel it has a lot of potential to inspire my final outcome.

I feel that the prior mentioned Viktor & Rolf collection in particular has inspired me a lot, in conjunction with Maya Hansen, to go down a more theatrical, sci-fi route. For my final outcome, I think I would like to use a very simple colour palette, using only silver and white, and I will give impact to my work by picking the techniques I use very carefully. I definitely would like to create a full bralette as part of my outcome, as I feel my previous experimentation with the pattern has been hugely successful.

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