Statement

These images support my application to study fashion design at MMU 

I have arranged them to show how I develop design ideas and use a range of visual materials to express them.

Personal Project

These images show how I developed ideas of structure by looking at architectural design and thinking how this could be applied to the body. 

In two dimensions I explored ideas about planes and connections and this shaped the way I moved them into three dimensions by constructing a garment around a mannequin and then the human body.

‘Hock’ Shoes 

This shoe project and the way I approached it, is all about shape and structure. 

I produced my shapes by drawing animal legs and then transforming them into 3-D models.  I used these for developing the shoe design (drawings in 2-D) and then I constructed the shoe. I went on to extend the shapes into various menswear designs.

Print Project

I looked at cogs from a bike manual and developed this motif as a repeatable pattern. I wanted to explore the various ways I could transform the original drawing into different kinds of texture & pattern. In Vogue magazine, I saw some patterned tights and knew at once that my design would work well, so I produced the visual of them being worn to test this idea. I then developed this theme into a fashion collection.

Deconstruct - Reconstruct 

Transforming an existing garment into something new by looking and understanding the shapes and trying to adapt them as far possible into my own piece, is a new way of working for me.  It is pushing me to create more diverse designs with a better awareness of how a garment is constructed.

As you can see, I generate my ideas by taking two-dimensional images and shapes from a variety of environmental sources.  When rendering these ideas back into 3D fashion garments I always think carefully about structure and the practicalities of manufacture.