handing in of tailoring processes

tailoring processes i found a bit difficult at the beginning as i didn't really know what we had to do exactly however once i got into it i quite enjoyed it i especially enjoyed our trip to the west Yorkshire play house were we got to look around all the clothes and costumes used within the plays at the west Yorkshire play house.

i also enjoyed doing the samples and learning how to do different techniques especially putting in a shoulder pad this gave me more understanding of the construction of a jacket and what goes into making one, this sample was one of my favourite to do as i feel i really learnt alot from it.

throughout the whole project i did find it hard to fit it all in as we had 2 weeks of taught lesson and 2 weeks of independent study i enjoyed doing my work at my pace however my pace isn't always best and i would have preferred maybe an extra week of taught lesson.

throughout the project we were doing samples which we then had to do and create something innovative out of it this i did enjoy as it helped me learn more about the creation of a tailored jacket and different ways of changing the silhouette of the wearer.

after handing my work in i had a tutorial with sue which I'm not gonna lie i was nervous about but she was really nice and gave me constructive feedback on my work which i found really helpful and useful to my next project as well.

during this time of tailoring practices i had a test for dyslexia and yes if you haven't heard by now i have dyslexia although i am waiting for my 3 hour test to have it confirmed and yes i may have been hurrendously hungover when i took the test which i think could only have helped me!

trip to west yorkshire playhouse

as part as our research for tailoring practices we had a trip to the west yorkshire playhouse costume department to have a look at all the costumes they have made for their plays and thier construction techniques in how they were made.

it was such an amazing place and all the costumes they had made were amazing they were so good they were so many different types of costumes, these are some of the pictures that i took in there,

critical studies lecture one asethetics and taste

some problems of knowing

rules of beauty-aesthetics

how do we require knowledge? 1) a knower 2) something to be known

do i know that i exist?

do i know that the world exists?

Rene Descartes-"i think therefore i am" certainty he was thinking.

part material part immaterial-mind and body

body is the vehicle of the mind

mind names sensations and objects of external world.

BEAUTY AND TASTE

"no object is so beautiful that under certain conditions it will not look ugly" - Oscar Wilde.

Plato-truth

reality is an imperfect copy of the forms (truths) art therefore is a much less perfect copy of a copy

PLATO'S CAVE
Plato imagines a group of people who have lived chained in a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to seeing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not constitutive of reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.

Aristotle - art whilst largely mimetic could purge the soul

the Kantian revolution

radical explorations of the condition of knowledge what does it mean to know and what is the result of that knowing

the mind contributes to the experience of objects.

the thing- the thing in itself

noumenon-phenomenon

things in themselves can be known only in the imagination

where is beauty?

not in the object of observation?

nor is it in a reasoned response ?

disinterested not to be confused with uninterested

disinterested-having no interest direct engagement with.

read Rousseau so long until the beauty of expression no longer interferes only then kovnt.

Hegel content v form
- no such thing as the thing in itself

everything in the universe building to something else

art is evidence of revelation of spirit

what cannot be known is nothing

there is no unbreakable thing in itself.

phenomenology- an examination of consciousness and the structures that underpin experience.

what does experience feel like?

what does our life world contain?

HEIDEGGER

thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason glorified for centuries is the stiff necked adversary of thought.

the origin of the work of art 1935-1937

Artworks, Heidegger contends, are things, a definition that raises the question of the meaning of a "thing." As this concept is so broad, he narrows down the definition to "mere things," meaning inanimate objects. He then chooses to examine a pair of shoes painted by Vincent Van Gogh, looking to the work to establish a distinction between artwork and other "things." This was actually typical of Heidegger as he often chose to study shoes and shoe maker shops as an example for the analysis of a culture. Heidegger explains the viewer's responsibility to consider the variety of questions about the shoes, asking not only about form and matter—what are the shoes made of?—but bestowing the piece with life by asking of purpose—what are the shoes for?

a painting is a thing of a certain type.
wearing shoes is different from seeing.
the being of shoes of their usefulness
painted shoes reveal the truth about shoes

LANGUAGE AND WITTGENSTEIN

big questions

how do we understand the world?
is the limit to that understanding?
if so how are parameters to be defined?

TRACTUS 1921

"whereof one cannot speak there of one must be silent"-Wittgenstein

language cannot say everything
language and the world share a common form.

art, god ethics etc reside. outside of language (occupying the realm of the mystical.)

"the limits of my language are the of my world?"-Wittgenstein

language games
meaning is a social activity words are not pictures of objects, ideas and situations they mean only in so far as they can be used.

god, beauty, good etc don't exist (in the platonic sense)
they mean what they do only in the context of how they are used.

MEANING IS USE

beauty is not property that we can come to know

nor is it a type of a response but we know how when and where to use it.

handing in project and presentation

to finsh off our project we needed to do a presentation on our collection as a group to try and sell it to potential buyers (gemma and angie), as a group we put our presentation together with some members of the group been more helpful than others....
for our presentation we got goody bags to give to all of the group with our branding in it and a chocolate from hotel choclat which was even colour coded to our whole collection.
the presentation went okay but i kept prouncing our collection whcih was impossible to define impoosible to design which was embarrassing and then i started laughing to make it even worse so im pretty sure my part of the presentation didnt go so well but never mind.
we handed in our project on wednesday and on the friday we were given a new breif called tailoring processes which sounds really good and should be an enjoyable project and not as stressful as the last one, we also have a trip to the west yorkshire playhouse to the wardrobe department which should be so much fun and i cant wait for!

second year!!!

second year is extremely different to first year its more intense and more work to do and a complete change.

however, its still fun and enjoyable our most recent project has been to work in groups and create a final collection together for a diffusion line for miu miu, it has been a lot of work to do over a short period of time and has been quite hard to keep up but Ive done it and although its been hard i have enjoyed working in a group and seeing how other people work compared to the way i work it has also taught me to plan my work more and make lists on what i need to do and when by.

working in a group has been different as I'm used to working more on my own and making my own decisions instead of making decisions within a group and having to compromise on some things that maybe other people didn't agree on.

i got on quite well with my group and enjoyed working in a group, there wasn't any conflict over who was making what as we all wanted to do different things, e.g. i wanted to do evening wear and Katherine wanted to do work wear so there was no conflicts really.

i chose to make a dress for evening wear and made the bodice using a Japanese pattern book which I'm not going to lie was really hard and i did need quite a bit of help with it but i challenged myself with it and with a little help i final made it and the rest of the dress.

we then had to do a photo shoot for our look books and these are some of the pictures from it.

i quite enjoyed doing the photo shoot and i think my dress looks really good on daisy and has worked out quite well and I'm proud of it even if i do say so myself!!!!

15 pieces of work

this is my photo from creative approaches to fashion i chose this photo because i like the garment that i made and i think the photo shows my garment well and as it had to be it fell from the sky i took this photo, "it fell from the sky into a tree".

this piece i did on photoshop i chose this image as i like the contrast between the colours and it was one of the first pieces i did on photoshop so i wanted to put this on to show comparison with newer pieces i will do on photoshop.

this is a piece of work i did in creative approaches to fashion i was using inspiration from martin margiela and a dress he made out of bow ties to create this inspired image.

this image i did in creative approaches to fashion workshop i like it becasue i used different medias to create it i chose it as i will be able to look back at it and see how my drawing technique have changed.

this is the ring i created in my jewerlly elective i made it out of copper and brass and i do quite like it but if i could have made it again i would have made it out of the same material and i would have used different coloured gems in the middle of the ring e.g. blue so you would be able to see them more.

this is the dress i made in creative design relisation i have chosen this as i was of my images becasue it was one of the projects i got my best mark on and i really enjoyed this project i also really like the dress i made.

this is one of my lineups i did for creative design practices i chose this piece as this is one of the first lineups i did before i chose my final line up i chose this as i will be able to see the difference between the two lineups.

this is my final line up from creative design practises i have chosen this image as i really liked my final lineup and i like the comparison between the two line ups as you are able to see the differences and what i have kept and what i have changed.

this image i did for creative design practices was for my market level research and i used magazine articles to show the comparison between the highstreet and designer and showing the tricle down effect on the highstreet.

this is a corset i made for fashion art and culture, i made it show different how women have changed throughout the years and becoming equal to men, i really like this piece that i made and i think it is one of my favourites.

this is paper garment i made in creative approaches to fashion workshop i quite liked this as its different and not something i had done before so this is why i put it in my 15 images.

this is a dress i made in a workshop for interdisciplinary processes i really like this dress as this was oringiannly a sample i made to try out an idea i had of making a dress out of cones for my final piece for interdisciplinary but after making it i decided it looked quite messy in the calico and so deiced to try it out in another fabric.

this is my piece i made for the GFW project we did i made a bag out of two belts and two records as we had to make something out recycled things, i do like this bag and i was quite proud of it which is why i have put it in my blog.

this piece is from creative approaches to fashion i chose it as i do quite like this piece but i also like the contrast between the paper and the fabric i also like the colours that i used for it.

this is my final piece for interdisciplinary processes i do quite like this skirt that i made i think it portrays my idea of the skirt sticking out at the side and looks much better than the card i was going to use did.

final day with 3rd years

today was my final day working with the third years and as many 1st years didn't turn in i was put with Cordelia again instead of my third year Ellen, for Cordelia i traced around patterns and then cut out the pattern pieces into fabric and that was all i did for the day the next day her final collection had to be in so she didn't have much else for me to do.
i really enjoyed working with the 3rd years and it gave me an insight in to what to expect when I'm in 3rd year and what it will be like and what i will be doing, Ellen and Cordelia were really helpful about there experiences in second and third year and what i was to expect. i have found the experience really interesting and really helpful and it wasn't half as bad as i thought it would be.

interdisciplinary

i have now handed in my interdisciplinary and for my final piece i made a skirt out of a sort of paper fabric and i bonded a light weight calico on top of it with flowers i cut out bonded underneath, this is my final piece, i am quite pleased with it as it was quite stressful to get to this point as i had to restart my final piece twice,

i also had to find a way to get the skirt to stand out at the side. i tried different ways, using boning underneath calico to make it stand out,

the boning didn't really work though and the skirt kept flopping to one side.

i also tried making the skirt out of card to see if this would make the skirt stand out more it did work but it looked like card and not like a skirt or a final piece,

so Caroline and Ian suggested that i use this fabric paper material and that worked alot better with the skirt rather than the card and also made it stand up at the side.

i enjoyed the beginning of interdisciplinary with the different workshops and trying out different methods of making fabric and different fabric workshops, however i did get quite stressed at the end of the project and couldn't wait to hand it in but i think thats a usual thing with handing in of projects.

3rd week with 3rd years

this morning i worked with my original 3rd year Ellen and she asked me and Laura to go into town for her and get some ribbon and a zip from Samuel Taylor for her and her friend Leanne this only took about an hour to get there and back and then for the rest of the morning me and Laura sewed in labels into Ellen's garments the labels were really cute and this is a picture of the labels we used.

as Ellen said she didn't need me this afternoon she said Cordelia could have me for this afternoon if she wanted so for this afternoon i went and helped Cordelia and just cut out her fabric pieces from pattern pieces out for her, also she showed me alot more of her work and let me take photos of her work to show what she is doing to put in my blog to show what she is doing for her final collection so these are the pictures of her work which i think are really really good and she has a really good concept of her ideas,

this is Cordelia final lineup

2nd day with 3rd years

today was our second day working with the third years and because Cordelia's first year was here today i had to work with Ellen who was my original third year, she started by showing me some of her work and what she had done so far and she has gone for as i see it a little house on the prairie theme collection with pink hangers, floral trousers and skirts, pink lace etc i think it is really cute and girly. to start with Ellen asked me to take photographs of all of her garments she has made so far then Laura who is also working with Ellen came a little bit later and Ellen asked her to paint some pegs pink, but Ellen's friend Leanne didn't have a first year today so in Ellen's words she "gave me" to Leanne which was okay but now means Ive had three different third years and haven't really bonded with anyone and don't really know what people are doing but there we go.
as i was now with Leanne first she had me put ribbon round a load of swing tags she had made for her garments, and then for the rest of the day i was tracing out her patterns for her which was okay and i learnt some things about patterns and making different patterns. so really it was an okay day.

first day of working with the 3rd years

Today was our first day working with the third years, i was soooooo nervous before we met them, we were given a photo of them and they had a photo of us and then we had to find each other, i had a girl called Ellen who was really nice but she had me and another girl in our class working with her and some people hadn't come in so i was taken away and put with another girl called Cordelia who was really cool and nice we went for a cup of tea to get to know each other we then went upstairs and she showed me through her work which was really good and interesting and i found it really helpful with what to know about with going in to 3rd year and how to present my work. she originally was going to ask the girl who was meant to be working with her to go to Dewsbury and get her some fabric but i said i would go for her because Ive never been and wanted to know where it was so i would know where to find it when i need to get fabric for my future projects.

i got the train to Dewsbury and found fab-works really easy it was just down the hill from the train station when i got there i asked the man who worked there for help to find the fabric that i needed for Cordelia he was really helpful and we had trouble finding some of the fabric he went into the warehouse to look and see if there was any in there, he was really nice and really helpful in the end we found what i needed but there was only 3 metres of the grey wool fabric that i needed and i needed 6 metres so i just had to take that.

I'm really glad i went to fab works as i now know where i need to go when i need to get some fabric and the people who work their are really helpful.

when i got back to college i helped Cordelia by pinning some patterns and cutting them out i then unpicked a trouser leg for her.

even though i was really worried about working with the third years i really enjoyed it and love working with Cordelia she had so much to tell me and alot of advice so hopefully i will get to continue working with her for the next 4 weeks!

interdisciplinary

we had our first interdisciplinary day on Tuesday it was a very busy but good day. we had to chose between two tasks i chose the first one was to create 5 samples based on the 15 sheets we did over Easter and then create five idea sheets using the samples we had already made by 3 o'clock it was a lot to do in around 6 hours but i guess this is what it will be like in second year so we have to get used to it. i enjoyed doing the samples but i found it quite hard to do so many in 6 hours , these are some pictures of the samples i did, i did this sample with inspiration from Hussein Chalayan, i made cones from cotton calico and placed them over the mannequin to create a cone like dress and change the shape of the sillhoette of the human body, i really like this idea and i will probably develop it and take this idea further.

this is the next sample i did this was inspiration from a butterfly metamorphosis, i quite like this idea but i feel it really needs developing maybe into a bigger sample or possibly smaller samples and make it into a top or dress to create a different silhouette.

the next day on Wednesday we carried on with what we were doing and had little individual tutorials with Ian, Angie and Caroline to show them the work that we had done over the Easter and in the Tuesday session and how we could improve it.

these are a few pictures of the work i carried on with in Wednesdays session,

for this sample i tried out the cones i had made on Tuesday as different parts of clothing and see how i could metamorphosis the body and change the silhouette of it.

this is a sample i did on the little mannequin of a silhouette of a skirt idea i had i may develop this into a bigger scale sample and see if what that would look like, i really like this idea as it metamorphosis the human body into something completely different.

this is another sample i did with shoulders again i really like this idea as this also changes the human form silhouette i may also develop this idea into a bigger sample.