This is the embllished split peas un-wearable art garment

Add caption This dress was the first un-wearable  paper art garment  made on  on Level 6 and embllished with painted split peas

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Add caption This is a close up of the flowers on the  front hem  of the  paper dress

Add captionThis is a close-up of the laser cutting on the sleeve

Add caption This is a close-up of the butter-fly doillies on the sleeve of the dress

Add caption This is a close-up of the ruff on the bodice

Add caption This is a close-up of the  butterflie doillies on the dress

Add caption  A close-up of the butterflies doillies

Add caption This ia a ruff colour

Add caption  These are the two paper dresses

Add caption  These are the pettie-coats

Visual CVs from Level 5 continue fasinator

Add caption This fansinator is one of my favorate piece of work it is made from cinamay, sea-shell and netting. 

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Add caption This is  a close up of the embroidery on my evening dress done with the laser cutting machine

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Add caption This is the front and back of this dress made from paper the embroidery design in the front is done with the Laser Cutting machine. The colour is ivory, an evening dress with pleated front and open at the hemline with long sleeves.The flour at the neck is made of the same paper material.

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Add caption This is front and back view ofthe un-wearable paper dress the colour is ivory the design is beween the 16-17th century combine with contemporary style. The sleeves and collar are pleated with ruff pleats, the dress is emblished with butterflies doilles.

material that made up the paper dress

Add caption These are the line drawing I made on the intial paper

Add caption This is what it looks like after machining

Add caption This is what it looks like after embellished with the painted split peas

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Add caption This is my first unwearable art paper dress on Level 6 it is made from paper, long sleeve and emblleshed with  painted split peas.  All are glued on using fabric glue.  

The  paper is line drawn in the shape triangle and machine stitched.  The wide neck has a  pleated flounce and the dress has a single sleeve.

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Add captions  This is one of the garments which was done on Level 5 project , it is a dancing costume.  The fabric is Lycra material, the colour is purple,  the long  sleeves and top part of the bodice are  a mixture of purple and blue  netting Lycra fabric. To have my work embllished I first tested  the bounder-a -web  on to the lycra fabric  but the bounder-web  did not take very well to the lycra fabric, so I had to use the brown  lycra netting instead because the bounder-web  took to the netting much better .With a warm iron I ironed on the  bounder-web on to the brown lycra netting, then  took the backing off the bounder-web  and pressed the  netting  on to the bodice   using  a warm iron. I  embellished the brown lycra fabric with dimonta.  I did the same with the applica on the front of the bodice.

This is a dancing costume made from lycra fabric on Level 5 project for a girl aged eight. The bodice 

and long sleeveeves are made from  brown lycra fabric.  The skirt is made of pink embroidery  lycra fabric, the black trimmings at the front is also lycra. The brown lycra netting that made up the sleeves and the bodice are embllishement  with pattern cut out from the skirt fabric, these are glued on using fabric glue. 

Add caption This dancing costume was made for a girl aged five and was done in the same way.

Add captionThis is the model age five.

Add caption Here is the little five-year-old again  this time I made a sportswear,  another project on Level 5, the material is lycra fabric the design is raglan sleeves with hoody top, the long sleeves, cuffs and waist are trimmed  with white ribbing. The bodice and upper sleeves are trimmed with white bais binding .

Add captionThe little flowers on her sportswear are made from lycra fabric of many colours and then glued on using fabric glue.  The pants and the top are pipped with white bias binding, hoody is also lined with white cotton netting and the tuggle is put through  two eyelets from the front of the neck, the front has a long zip.

Add captionThis is my first paper dress,design is based on 18thcentuy style, with centre front pleat and flounce from the waist. This screen printed paper was done in the silk  screen prinigng room.

Add caption This is another dancing costume done on level 5.

Illustrative work continue, where my work sits wiith all three artists.

My work is inspired by three artists whom I have carried out research on for example, Issabelle de Borchgrove, fashion designer and painter, Issey Miyake, fashion designer and Hussian Chalayan, fashion designer, sculptor, film-maker and animator.  My work as a fashion designer and artist is similar to all three artists and sits somewhere in between the middle of all three artist work.  However, we all work differently for example; the equipment I use is a laser cutting, a domestic sewing machine and fabric glue. The material I use is in my work is paper and fabric.  Although my garment is designed as a formal fashion garment it is made from paper and can be seen as a piece of art work because it is intend to be placed in an art gallery or a museum. This garment is also seen as a sculpture because it is unwearable; and will not be worn by anyone; it is also seen as a piece of craft because of the material it is made from. The idea of describing this piece of work can be very difficult because it cannot be interpret as a single article. On one hand it is designed as a fashion garment, on the other hand it is a piece of art and in between it is a sculpture and a piece of craft, hanging in a room where viewers can walk around it and give their opinions of what their interpretations are of this piece of work is.

Example of the fuff pleats

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This is the back and side view of the second dress along with an illustration of the lazer cutting design.

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This is the second final garment done by lazer cutting machine, shown is the front and back.

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Here both side view of the garment are shown.

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This is the final garment showing both front and back view.

Illustration work continue these are the ruff sleves.

Add caption these are the complete ruffs sleeves prior to sewing on to the upper sleve.

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Add caption These  flounces are been embellished with butterfly paper doilies.

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Add captionThis is a part of the basic collar.

Add caption These are secctions of the sleeve, from the basic deviding the sleeve, then slashing it to obtain the width and cutting it in three sections to get the three flounce for making the  ruff.

The Elizabethian ruff sleeve

 

This is the  illustration of 16th -early 17th century Elizabethian ruff sleeve which inspired my work.

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1. This is a splinths with a fascinator on the top with  ruffs inside. All the rest of images are ruffs at the basic stage, with different stitches and experimenting.