Student Blog

Day 2

Using the structures, patterns and textures created during the previous day, we were asked to create collages on top on magazine images of models.

The activity given was quite challenging for me, as I had never worked before using an image from a magazine as a model to create collages of garments, or images that could relate to fashion illustration. The difficulties I had were dealing with the image, and then constructing and creating something new around it.

However, I had the samples created the day before, which gave me more or less an idea on how I wanted to create the collages. All the colours where very organic and I had in mind the patterns of fruits.

As I started creating the collages, I realized I did not have to strictly stick with the body of the model and create a garment form there, I could create something more abstract that could be placed outside the centre of the image and could still be targeted as a fashion collage or a fashion illustration.

One the collages were finished, the next task was to start drawing in our sketchbooks possible designs for the paper garment we would have to create the following day. This task came to me as something more natural and easy than the collage. Having worked for three years in a fashion design company, designing garments was not a challenge, although this time I would have to recreate the chosen piece in paper.

To create the designs, I used the first day samples and the collages to build up some sort of a mood board in my mind (colours, shapes, textures, patterns...). From there I designed several pieces in which I used the papers I had been using for the previous tasks to get a better idea on how the final garment would look like. I was not quite happy with my results, as I believe that they could have been more diverse and not only centred in one style.