working on the drawing more

finally think i like a drawing

weeks worth of work

its been a bit of a very fast week it was friday without even realising it..

here is what i have been ending up doing all week

*mainly unpicking as i want to make it perfect.

*finished me crinoline on tuesday

*facing and binding on my corset which had to be made perfect

*busk returned to vena cava as i bought the wrong one

crinoline continued

I finally finished making the boning panels work and i finished the hem i just have to finish doing a placket and then attaching a waist band this task took a whole day which is longer than what i expected this would take as it was very tedious and i had to be precise

Head piece design

when looking at my past post on emma yeo i wanted to design a design that was like her silk and wood piece necklace. this idea of combining the materials really inspired me as i have used silk in my corset and my crinloine and would continue the theme of me using silk within my design.

i started comign up with the concept by taking the idea of using a flower design and making the petals just a thin outline i wanted to make a point of the design beign fragile like flowers are fragile but by some how combining them with the laser cut material which i still need to talk to a technition about which would be the best idea and transfer it onto the auto cad design so i can make it possible to use CAD and CAM to make my design possible

design drawings

these are my costume drawings figure one is my initial drawing

making my crinoline

this is my material being cut out and me showing how i have started to make this work and how i have created my design.

changes to the crinoline

when making my crinoline i had to make changes as the ridgeoline was not strong enough to hold the structure that i designed as it was moving to much and would not hold it correctly when i would add my material on to it.

after struggling to make the original structure work i decided to make it out of thin boning that was more weighted and held better when i made it, the way that i made the pattern was by putting the pieces of fabric onto it and using a tailors chalk to mark out where the boning was hanging that i had made 8 cm apart from each other being precise was essential to making this hang correctly.

the material that i used is semi transparent silk that was £8.99 a meter which is to be added to my budget list.

i made a toile of my pattern piece that i made for the crinoline to make sure that it worked so i had confidence in what i had made.

hat inspiration

Emma Yeo is a freelance designer in fashion accessories who uses wood and silk in this piece to make a necklace i want to take this idea and use auto cad to create a piece like this to reflect my overall concept of my design.

The photos above have other inspiration to my project the way that they are torn and ragged this is what i want to do for a head piece for my model.

model pictures

making part 5

working on the crinoline has been a task, patience and precition have to be correct as when working on this today it has been a struggle to make sure that the crinoline is straight.

to do task for tommorrow

go to birmingham to collect more fabric

email vena cava as i have bought the wrong spoon busk for my corset it is not long enough

schedule

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a dark side to crinolines

this image when doing research i found to show a dark side to crinolines the way that it has shown the crinolines not on the normal place but it on the sleeves i found that tobe very interesting by doing it in a unconventional way. the way the photo-shoot is done is dark and this is what i think i would want my photo-shoot to be as when doing more in-depth research i found that most titania fairies where photo-shoot in a very pantomime way

looking at makeup for my photoshoot

i want to have makeup that would compliment my design i am looking at various versions of how makeup is done to see which one i think will be the best.

these i feel that i have looked at will be the sort of thing that i want to have on my models makeup. although i would want a more rustic feel to the way i want it to look

budget list so far

making my crinoline

One interesting design of Valentino Couture Fall/Winter 2010/11 Collection was a model stepping on runway with a cage showing that she is trapped.

i then took the idea of using transparent material over the top of the crinoline to make a idea for my design. i then want to put leaves that i had coated in pva glue to make sure that they are preserved.

creating my crinoline

when i designed the crinoline design for my corset i wanted to play with the idea of using paper wire that had gone rusty due to being exposed to rain

alexander mcqueen

vivienne westwood mini crini collection 1987

Supported by meticulous research, the Mini-Crini collection of 1986 featured shortened 19th century-style crinolines with Minnie-Mouse prints, polka dots and stars and stripes worn with rocking-horse platform shoes. In a period when other designers empowered women with shoulder pads, Westwood placed the emphasis firmly on the hips. This collection exaggerated the feminine forms and accents of historical clothing to create a sexually-charged vision that was outrageous and almost absurd. Ten years later the sexually confrontational Vive la Cocotte collection of 1996, which featured large bum-cushions and padded busts, again inspired by 19th century dress.

fashion and leaves

looking at more inspiration for my bottom part of my design i am looking at how fashion has used crinolines in there design with a modern approach

hair accessories

the top image of this pictures shows a possible design for my models hair design

making part 4