Traces Project

Traces Project


Industrial shut down

Day 1 of our project me and Nat discussed some initial ideas for our team theme. We decided to look into the industrial shut down in England to give us Inspiration for a fashion trend.
We proposed our ideas to the designers of our group, Jen, Jasper and Amy. They seemed very impressed with our initial research and industrial shut down era and have decided to take our inspiration to research further for their design work.
Our theme is based on the survival of unemployment looking particularly at old factories, derelict buildings, and old industrial towns. We will take photographs and look at colours, textures and shapes to inspire the designers of the group.

For our next meeting the promoters (Me and Nat) will prepare 6 mood boards to present to the designers to show a visual mood of our ideas.

After getting to know all of the people in our group we decided to note down our strengths that we all bring to the group to help us decide what roles we should each take.

Amy – Strengths in pattern cutting, construction and fabric technology

Jasper – strengths in sourcing, designing and sketching

Sam – strengths in creating mood boards, creating work digitally.

Jen – strengths in Design, illustration and construction

Nat – strengths in coming up with initial ideas, project management, and trend forecasting

2nd group meeting

We have all researched in more detail, to expand our theme. We all discuss what we have collected and found when researching individually. The designers of our group had made a start on some sketch book work. Jen has showed an interest in 1940’s tailored jackets, and has found lots of inspirational images of stitching details, and Kate Moss’s 1940’s collection.
Jasper has created a range of hand drawn designs and wants to explore the idea of deconstruct/ reconstruct with second hand, used clothes.
Amy has researched images and photos relating to our theme, looking at rust and derelict buildings.

Our Next meeting

The promoters of the group have collected images, colours, fabrics and trend research to create mood boards to present in a group tutorial. We have shown and discussed the research we have gathered with the designers to see if it will inspire them. The designers were pleased with our ideas so for the tutorial we will have a good range or boards to present to our team.

Meeting before Tutorial

We met up prior to our group tutorial to show the designers our finished mood boards and went through what we where going to say when presenting our ideas. The designers will take the bits they like from our boards and expand into jacket designs

Tutorial

The tutorial went well and we were all impressed with the boards and ideas. The designers have picked out the bits they liked and will produce some illustrations for next time.

Next meeting

We have all decided to use a textiles student to help us with making our fabric for the final jackets. Kay has joined our group meeting and showed us some really exciting samples that we where all very impressed with. This will help the designers to create really original garments reflecting our theme.

Next meeting

At this stage the designers are very busy with constructing their garments. Kay will be dyeing and texturing the fabric for the designers. Promoters are creating professional trend books. When all the work is complete we will meet to discuss how we are going to present our final outcome. Selecting modals to wear the garments, and how we will style them. And how we will present our Industrial Shut down idea.