AS Exam; Earth Design Ideas

My ideas focused around dresses that followed the same form as Alexander McQueen’s work, and I then used other things such as my drawings, photographs and textile experiments to build on these. 

I used a mannequin to create my form out of paper, and then created six design ideas before refining these ideas together 4 times, before I finally reached my final design idea. This contained elements of felting, batik, couching, plaster of Paris, embellishing and a lot more. I used the colour I’d experimented with, and incorporated lot of previous ideas from throughout the project.

AS Exam; Earth Final Piece

For my final piece, I created a dress which contained many different media, based on experiments. The top part of the dress has a batik pattern, with and ink and couching stretching up the side of the mannequin’s neck. 

The main skirt is a brown silk, that has been ruffled to add volume, and then a huge over skirt train with layers of silk, tie dye and also Plaster of Paris on thread has been added, with rips to reveal the layers. Finally, I added some felt pebbles of different colours, shapes and patterns, all embellished and scattered around the entire dress.