The final piece: Development

Development is the most fun part.
I do many because I love it.
But a problem is that I have to organize all after I did.
Photos were over 200 for this development.

This glue work has a weak point that it becomes loose and soft after many developments.
So, first 10 designs are easy to find astonish shapes because it is still hard but it gradually gets harder.
So, middle of the development, I have to find another shapes from other points like gather, twist, distort, angles...
From the bird (One of my development), I tried putting on pleats. It was seemed to be matching with the purple Lycra.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy to watch this video because that is the most important for me.
That is my happiness.




 

Stuck, and then... [Development 2]

After we separated our jackets, I had been thinking that it was enough fabric or not. Simply, when we need to cover whole body, we need the right amount of fabric. I mean, if the fabric used be a jacket, there is only the amount fabric for a jacket. Yes, we can use lining as well. Especially, it has nice thick cotton twill, but half lining. I considered either I mix one more jacket from my one or manage to make with it only. I chose latter because it is more hard choice. Limitation will be a good practise. So, at least I got a rough idea that I definitely cannot make a long dress.

Garment deconstruction 1: [Development 1]

After observing the jacket, I started deconstructing it. First, I tried not to leave any parts off and kept as a one connected piece. However, I found it had better to separate some parts because it still remained the jacket shape. But I  also thought I should do it after I hang it on my bicycle...yes, my bicycle.
I got an idea to use my bike as a mold instead of a chair this time. Of course, I had no idea what I could do with it but I wanted to try it. First, I did the development with my friend. Because we thought it may not enough fabric to cover whole body. So we tried some. However, the dress was very heavy and other friend suggested us it would be better to do individually. So we separated our jackets which had been already sewn together.

Develop! Develop!

Tuesday is always busy. Our group did workshop room induction this morning. I had not used industrial sewing machine before. It looks a bit scary but actually it's fun. Just, setting thread is slightly hard. Then Me and Sai had already decided what we gonna do today. First, we make a new one, then while it leaves for drying, we do development for last week's work.

I am putting on the development documentary today. I will talk about the new model another time. Anyway, we manipulated the last week one very quick and many. We changed the shape within 5minutes each. Just do very quick, without thinking any, just believing our creative sense. So, luckily we got 12 designs in 90 minutes including photo time.
I am going to explain each design points tomorrow because there is not enough space any more. Sometimes, 'Less than 160 words rule' is not enough for me, especially when I want to explain details...



So, now we can see the difference from the first shape which is in 14th October, and personary this development ones are seemed to be better. Especially the last one, we were satisfied very much.

Glue & cloth:1 [Cut out and modifying]

To be honest, I am not satisfied about this outcome. I might be able to do something more. We didn't try other shapes so much because when we put it on the mannequin, it was almost looks like a dress. Moreover, it was seemed to be "correct" position as a dress. However, that kind of thinking is not good for creating because there should not exist any correct shapes. I may try modifying again if my partner allowed.
Anyway, positive side is I love this colour. natural plain with blue and green remind us nature world. Sky and forest, lake and field. I imaged soft organic shapes for this dress.

Paper folding workshop:2 [Make a bigger model!]

The task is making a big model from one of previous weeks'. The aim is how we can modify into human size (=planning as a garment) it. We are allowed to break rules we made last week.
I chose no.13 (please see 08/Oct. post) because it was seemed to be easier to turn into a dress. I had a roughly idea before I start. So I simply enlarged no.13 with calculation (It was 8 times bigger than the original model). After I made all parts, connected exactly same as no.13. When I put the big maquette onto a mannequin, I realized I needed to make a hole for neck. Like that, I kept changing it gradually.

Problem: Ugly. Less impressions around neck and back (see 0:44 & 0:50)
Solution: Extra squashed paper adding and labeled my name on the back.