Final Project

This garment shows the mix feeling of masculine and feminine. But in this piece, I want to present more about women's power. 

This is an oversized coat, because I want to present it in more artistic way. The shape of the cuffs is inspired by menswear, but enlarged the size a lot.  On top of the cuff, I laser cut on wool with my own designed pattern.  For the coat shape, I wanted the structure of masculine feeling, so I made it big and long till toes. In Order to make the structure, I choose the material of neoprene, which is thick but soft. And the grey color is a androgyny color which can be worn by both male and female. 

The coat shows more about women in nowadays, which represent the right for women. There is feminine on the coat, but there are more about hard structure, powerful and confident, to state women's social statues in 21 century by garment form. 

Final Presentation

I was very excited for the final presentation. Not only excited about my own work, but also excited to see other classmates' final work. They all amazing and creative! This semester is so worthy, I learnt a lot from my lovely awesome teacher and talented friends.

I am so pleased that I got many response sheets from classmates and the other class's students. I read all of them very carefully. What they wrote in the sheet really encouraged me a lot to face the difficulties on my fashion design way, what they said really made me feel that all efforts were so worthy.

Final Project Detail Photo and Back View

For the back

I tried to create an asymmetric form to show the unbalance feeling between feminine and masculine. The left part is a line shape and the right part is sharper with the square shape. Same as the front design---one side is in line form and the other side is sharper with a square corner.

Laser cut Part

This is my laser cut part, I laser cut on wool with my own designed pattern. I chose this pattern on this garment is that I think those cross lines makes people feel strong but not sharp as triangles, so I think it is an mix feeling of feminine and masculine, actually, it gives more masculine feeling in visual way.

Work Process

For the process of the final, I was struggling for the form of my design. I knew the coat form, but I thought a lot about the sleeves' form. I used muslin to try big sleeves,skinny sleeves, oversize sleeves. The sleeves upon shoulder and under shoulder. I will figure out  my favorite one and make it with the neoprene fabric.

Final Project 1--sketchbook&statement

For my final project, I want to make an androgyny coat. The coat shows more about women's power in nowadays, which represent the right for women. There is feminine on the coat, but there are more about hard structure, powerful and confident. To state women's social statues in 21 century by garment form. 

Here are some ideas that I sketched for my final project:

Silhouette Study Garment

What did you learn that you might apply to your final project?

When I was sewing the study garment, there were some problems for measurement. I made two garments, the first one was made by musline, but the size could not fit any dress form. And I found that musline could not give the form of hard structure. So I made the second one, which made of ironed cotton-very unique hard fabirc. For the second one, I measured the size on dress form and made the exact right size to fit the dress form. 

So for my final piece, I will measure right size by musline first and then chose the perfect material for my coat. 

Dress Pattern

What pattern did you select and why? 

A dress pattern 

How will you alter the pattern?

I will make holes on dress patterns to show more body form. 

What materials and method of attachment will you use?

I will use muslin or ironed cotton. Maybe I will make both. Because I want to see the difference between hard and soft fabric. And I will sewing machine to connect each pattern pieces. 

How do these choices relate to your topic research?  What is the message behind your design?

My topic is about Gender--Women's Power. This why I want to use ironed cotton fabric to make the dress. I want hard structure to balance the feminine feeling of the dress. The reason I want to have holes on dress is that , if the dress made by hard fabric, it would not show the sexy body shape, it will be more about ideal garment form. So, I want the hole to show a little bit skin, and the sexy waist line to present women's body. But at the same time, it also has the structure of powerful shape. 

Cite one example of an article that you have research in seminar that has influenced your design.  Explain how the article informed your ideas.

Online article "Little black dress"

This article talks about the beauty of simpleness. In the centuries ago, layers and layers dress meant elegant and beauty. However, since Coco Chanel's amazing design--Little black dress, women were liberated from "tight" fashion generation. The simple dress can be defined as another style of beauty. Maybe a little design on the flat dress can change the whole feeling of the garment. This design concept is a big revolution of fashion industry, which affected the fashion trend a lot.

For this project, I wanted to make a very simple dress as well. Because of this article, I decided to just change a little part of a simple pattern dress. I wanted to show the sexy part of women, where I think supports to be the waist line till hip line, so I just cut a hole to show the skin of that part. Simple but sexy. This article gave me the inspiration of simpleness, which helped me to simplify my design ideas.