Assignment
The workshop consists of a 2 hours-practice session, introduced by a brief presentation on the basic principles of clothes making and Fashion design.
With easy tools and rapid techniques like cutting, slashing, pleating, and draping fabric, each student will be composing a complete outfit of one or several pieces of their creation.
Working as a duo, each student will design an outfit to be worn by their partner. Each duo must think and develop their two outfits in coordination, creating a mini-collection.
The process and the design choices must be visually documented and explained in terms of the transformation of function and aesthetics.
You have until before the next session to finalize your outfit.
Material and tools
- A pair of scissors adapted to cut fabric.
- hand needles.
- threads from different colours.
- Strong scotch tapes from different colours and widths.
- Stapler with staples.
- Safety pins.
- Pens from different colours.
- Rulers.
Instructions
- Choose your partner to work as a duo.
- Document your chosen garment: what type of clothe did each of you choose? Make your partner wears your garment, and photograph with different angles in front of a neutral background.
- Discuss with your partner the alterations you want to make: changing the way of wearing the garment (upside-done, inside-out), shortening, elongating, enlarging, reducing, twisting, draping, pleating, slashing it, etc.
- Decide on a common direction for both of your garment’s transformation and the general attitude and look you want to obtain.
- Plan the way you want to cut your fabric : in squares, bands, rectangles, circles, waves, in few big pieces, or several small pieces ?
- Start to cut your garment and include the fabric in it.
- Use your tools for construction while taking in consideration the graphic impact, which material and colours to use and where ?
Submission
Blog or Moodle
- On Thursday 13th of April, submit your project on the Blog.
- A short text presenting the general attitude, explaining the functional and esthetical choices.
- The visual documentation on the process of transforming and making the outfit, explaining the gestures made at every step.
- The pictures of the final outfit worn by the student for whom you made it.
Moodle
Submit all the above on your blog as well as a .pdf document and raw images for your moodle.
Grading criteria
- Capacity to synthesize your gesture, attitude, look, and concept.
- Level of transformation of the initial chosen garment : how much did you change its shape, function or aesthetic ?
- Use of the entirety of the fabric : explain how you employed the totality of the fabric surface. In how many pieces did you cut it, and where did you place them ?
- Graphic choices, and intervention on the fabric : how did you use your tools to compose your outfit in colours and graphism ?
- Coherence of the team work : are the 2 looks working together ?
- Wearability : Can it be worn ? Is the outfit functional ? Is it possible to move and walk in it?
Visual references
- Inserting white cotton fabric in order to upcycle an existing garment.
Comme des Garçons SS2020 – Craig Green SS2016 – Sacai SS2021.
- Creating an attitude with volumes and proportions.
Comme des Garçons SS2013 – Craig Green FW2022 – Rick Owens SS18.
- Use basic tools for construction and graphic intervention.
Maison Margiela SS2019 – Balmain SS2011 – Raf Simons FW2015.
