Overall, my aim for this project was to create fabrics that
focused on restricting and deforming the skin, as well as revealing elements of
the skin when placed on the body. I have found the process of this project very
interesting as I was developing and moving forward from a previous project. Looking
back through this journey, I believe I have developed and designed unique and contemporary
fabrics that fit well with my target market, high-end womenswear.
At the beginning of this project I struggled with developing
my ideas, colour palette and initial fabrics, and felt I hit a standstill
quite early on. I overcame these issues
by taking more photographs and creating drawings from them to give me
inspiration on shape, textures, and techniques I could use in my samples. I
also began looking at more fashion designers and other areas of the art/ design
world which enabled me to progress my ideas further.
I found my strengths in this project were developing my fabrics,
once I had overcome the difficulties of creating a colour palette, I approached
them with a lot of confidence to experiment and push my own technical ability. I
found I gathered a lot of strong and relevant contextual research throughout
the process, which enabled me to maintain my ideas and samples for a high-end
market.
This project has advanced my abilities as a designer as I
have improved my knitting technical ability when combining yarns like
monofilament and elastic that aren’t always the easiest yarns to knit with. I now have the ability to take a project and evolve it into something new without
replicating what I had previously made and achieved. I have also learnt what is involved to make high quality fabrics like yarn choice and the research needed.
