Deconstruction/Reconstruction: Day 3

Today I started to think about my concept. I went to the library and looked at some books on architecture. One them that I found was about an architect called Richard Rodger. I really like his work especially one building called 'The Lloyds Building'. Because of its appearance, lifts, stairs and pipes shown on the outside, it is often nicknamed 'The Inside Out Building'. I really like this idea of have all the clothes seeming to be inside out and the buildings he designs also has lots of interesting shapes and colours that I could use to inspire my designs.
Since a lot of clothes I've used so far are made from denim I decided to look at American Workwear in the 1920s and 30s when denim first become worn. I photocopied a lot of images from book about denim which I am then going to use in collages.

Doing this research really helped because before, although I knew I wanted to used denim, I found it hard to come up with solid ideas to create a collection and felt I needed more than just a material to link my designs. I like this concept because I think it is a real good idea but it's not a concept that needs a lot of time to understand and research and it will still allow for the clothes to be my main inspiration while still giving them a common thread.

Next I made collages joining together my research, some the stand work I'd previously done and illustrations to see how my research could fit in with the work I'd already done on the stand. I then tried to recreate some of these looks on the stand. I found going back and forth with my illustrations, collages and stand work was really helpful for my design process. The collages and illustrations gave me inspiration and then I used working on the stand so I could properly visualise how these garments would look and how they would be made. Today was really successful because I now have a clear idea of my concept which is influencing the design work I'm doing.