Production of Look 4

LOOK 4 - The 'BIG' dress, the final piece to my collection, this dress consists of loads of digitally printed satin organza circles applied to the entire front of the main dress and being placed ton the seam of the fish tail skirt. All the applied circles were individually starched 2-3 times for the small and medium circles and the largest circles were starched 4 times to create the firmness that I wanted in order for me to create the sculptural look. 

This look consists of using all 4 of the circles blocks  had designed,Circle 1 - 30cm, Circle 2 - 48cm, Circle 3 - 70cm and 110.5cm in circumference. These digitally printed circles are from 4 different prints , each print being 2metres in length and 135cm width having the print in extremely large scale. This entire dress of applied digital print circles has 10metres of print featured on this dress.

Having a one shoulder fitted dress with a fish tail skirt from just above the knee line, which has 10 layers of black net around the entire fish tail. For the main dress I have constructed this look in double-sided duchess satin in red, the dress being heavy and fitted I inserted a boned corset constructed also in the double sided duchess satin.

Half way through applying the digital circles..really love the sculptural shapes created from these

One of my paintings that has been digitally printed onto satin organza

 Circle of digital print cut from circle block

Another one of my paintings that has been digitally printed into a very large scale

Side view on my progress with look 4 and applying the circles

With the fish tail of this skirt, which was designed to very big and have lots of volume. With the applied digital prints, this meant that the fish tail of the dress would be weighed down with these and the 10 layers of black net, therefore I thought it was appropriate for me to then construct an underskirt with 3 row of double up and gathered stiff black net in order to help the fish tail skirt not lose its volume and be weighed down.

Back view of look 4 in progress

All circle 1,circle 2 and circle 3's have been attached to the dress now moving onto attaching the largest circles over over a metre long.

Front view of look 4

Close up of bodice of look 4

Back of look 4 

Side of look 4

Production of Look 3

Look 3 is a full length gown produced using double sided duchess satin for the main dress, with application of digitally printed organza.

With a fish tail skirt in the train of the main dress which will have digitally printed circles applied to this, because I want the dress train to big quite big and have volume I applied several layers of gathered net on the lining of the train, this then helped to keep the applied circles up and not be dragged.

The main body of the dress has been designed to be very fitted and to sculpt the body, with this I have constructed a boned corset to be fitted into the bodice of the dress.

This dress consists of all four circle sizes used within the digitally print, circles circumferences of 30cm, 48cm, 70cm and 110.5cm.

Toile of Look 3 - Side View

Toile - Back View

Toile - Front

 Front corset pieces in double sided duchess satin 

Stitching the shoulder seams using a french seam in the printed organza

 Yoke of the dress digital print

   Applying the digitally printed circles of the dress back train 

Main dress with applied circles with digital print and circles of double sided digital print

 Creating sculptural shapes with the train circles

Back of dress completed

 Front of dress completed

Video Day - of final collection

For our Graduate Fashion Week stand, we will be having a video of our collections played on a television for the duration of the show.

This involved a day of filming each individual dress, focusing on close up shots, looking at details within the garments, and the overall collection. 

The models were required to stand in front view of the camera and then the back view. They were then required to walk to show the movement within each garment. 

Final line up being filmed front view

 Looks 1 and 2

Looks 3 and 4 being filmed front view

Studio shot after models were required to walk as a collection

Look 4 

Look 1 Front view

Look 1 side view

Look 2 front view

Look 3

Look 3 full length shot 

Look 3 close up shot

Back view of look 3

Side view of look 3

Production of Look 2

Look 2 features a simple fitted bodice and skirt with full length sleeves, layers of black net joined in at the waist seam with circles of digitally printed organza applied onto the skirt of the dress.

This look has been designed to a short dress with layers and layer of printed organza covering the entire skirt to create volume and drama.

The layers of organza feature print which has been hand painted, placed onto photoshop and printed onto satin organza. There is only one print on the dress however the print has been blown up to 2 metres long and 135cm in width, having this repeated three times equalling to 6 metres of the same print repeated. From this print the circles were cut out from my own circle blocks of certain circumferences of 30cm, 48cm, and 70cm.

Constructing layers of black net to join the waist seam

Toile of Look2 - Front

Toile - Back

Cutting double sided duchess satin from block of bodice for look 2

Cutting the skirt block from double sided duchess satin

Constructing dress sleeve

Main dress completed with applied layers of black net in waist seam

Applying digitally printed circles

Creating sculptural shapes with the digital print