let's get started!

On Monday my class had meetings with my design professor to make final revisions/approvals. She liked my colour balance, and I just had one design change to make. I handed in the changes today during class, along with my style summary sheet and drafting planning sheet for my first dress I'm going to make.

I discovered that printing at the print shop isn't the best way to go, my tan colour turned out orange looking, so when I buy more ink for my printer, I'll be printing off another illustrations sheet to hand in for Monday.

On Tuesday, we met with our sewing professor for her to approve our fabrics and for us to find out what kind of pre-sampling we need to do for sewing. We also decided which outfits would be made 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th. For my pre-sampling, I needed to make a sample for a lapped zipper, blind hem, chiffon strap application, and a curved seam with a casing and boning, and for my second dress, pre-sampling includes a pull through strap and a front bodice with the draped chiffon.

The 1st outfit we make will be featured in the magazine that our program puts out that features one design for each designer, but with our small class, we may be able to get 2 outfits in the magazine *fingers crossed*

Tomorrow I don't have school, so I'm going to be spending most of the day doing some patternmaking, and steaming my blue fabric so its already to go when it comes time to cut out my pieces.

I cannot wait to get sewing my dresses, thats when the time will really fly by!

Back From New York

I got back from New York yesterday at 5:30 in the morning. I spent most of yesterday re-cooperating and relaxing. Today I'm going to be working on the changes I'm making and illustrating the back views of the 5 that I'm going to make.

During the trip I had meetings with my professors to decide on which of my dresses I would make for the fashion show, as well as making decisions on fabrics and colours.

My colour palette was simplified from 5 colours to 3 colours. The colours I'm using are blue, green and tan. That's right, no pink.

Each dress will be made out of silk duchess satin for the structured part of the dress, and silk iridescent chiffon for the draping detail of the dresses.

All of my fabrics and linings were purchased at Mood Fabrics in New York, except my green duchess satin and chiffon was purchased at Silk House across the street from Mood because Mood didn't have the right shade of green I needed.

New York Tomorrow!

So I printed my illustrations at Staples yesterday, and right now I'm working on cutting them out and putting them on their boards for presenting to my professors in New York.

Tomorrow I leave for New York and my class and me will be going to Mood Fabrics to look at their large selection of fabrics in search for our fabrics for our final collection.

I will have a big update when I get back on the 15th. But for now I better get packing.

colours, fabrics, decisions decisions....

98 days until the fashion show! Oh boy.

So right now I'm looking around the mood fabrics website to see if they have the fabrics I have in mind in the colours I want, and looking for some other ideas for fabrics to use.

I have all my designs done and illustrated, now I just need to decide on colours and fabrics for them. That is what I'm going to spend the day doing because I don't work today. Hopefully I will have them done today so I can print them tomorrow.

I'm sitting here on my computer right now working on illustrator. I have 7 designs complete on there, one done that I'm going to change a bit, and 2 more that I'm in the middle of working on. I think I might do a few extra if I have time, just to be on the safe side.

After getting all of the designs done I'm going to work on my colours. That is going to be a pain because I think I might involve a floral pattern, but for now I will probably keep all my colours solid and see what my professors say about bringing in a pattern. With it being eveningwear, I'll have to be careful with a pattern choice.

I'm thinking what I might do is make every dress a different colour from my palette, print them all off and arrange them and figure out which way works best, and after choosing, I will still keep the other options somewhere for later in case I need to move to a plan B in the fabric store.

I'm feeling a little better about this line today than I was yesterday, it's finally coming together, I just hope I get at least 5 of the designs approved in New York, otherwise, I'm screwed.

Thats all for now!

Some design process today

From my original proposal back in December, I've kept about 2 or 3 of my designs and made changes to them. Today I've done some sketching in my sketch book and I'm pretty happy with what I have so far. I've also started transferring a couple of the sketches into illustrator images on the computer. So far I have 5 and a half done on illustrator, and I need 10.

I'm starting to get a little stressed about it now because there isn't a whole lot of time before going to New York for fabric shopping, so I'm going to be spending pretty much the rest of my break working on line proposal whenever I'm not at work. And I'll probably bring my sketchbook to work this week to work on it during breaks.

I work at 8am tomorrow and will be getting off at 4, after that, my evening will be spent with more sketching.

Anyways That's my little blurb for the night, time for bed.

Styling Details

Before I begin sketching and illustrating for the day, I decided to sort out what styling details from the WGSN website I am thinking about using.

So here they are:

Construction

Decoration

 

Necklines

 

Sleeves

 

 

 

Trims and Finishing