Research Theme

My Research Theme is "Gender"

I want to research more about 

"What happens if traditional stereotype Masculine and Feminine are revised?"

Jean Paul Gaultier Exhibition Tour

I really enjoyed the "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk" exhibition. 

 The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk 

In the exhibition, I realized how exquisite the designer's work was. Every pieces was cared by little tiny details, there were no flaws anywhere. I could see the designer not only spent a lot of time on those dresses, but also the methods to exhibit. Like the decoration in every room, the careful choses of fabric on the wall, the lighting colors and the interior design of emotions; the singing models which were so surprising and awesome, and the way they standing to show the garments were so confident. For me, I felt every exhibit room gave me different visual feeling, which really matches the main idea of different collections.

I admire how bold Jean Paul Gaultier is. When I was walking through every collection section, I saw what others did not dare to design in that time period, even for now. Those unique combination of forms and fabric not just a revolution at that time, it's still a revolution in nowadays fashion industry.

I found different "revolutions" were divided in different section, for me I would explain sections as "Women's power","every girl can be fashionable"( in the exhibition there were few oversize models were wearing fantastic dresses) "neutral" "sexual"(sexy corsets) and "high-class world".

I like how he expresses himself in his designs, also expresses many kinds of human type in collections. For example, he designed suits for women, also evening dress with pants, perfectly showed women's power.Also, he designed lace clothes and dresses for men which satisfied some men's dream. I think, he is not only designs fashion, his designs are more about culture. He showed people's secrets and thoughts boldly in his design. 

From Jean Paul Gaultier's interview online, I found his inspirations were from his life, like the people around him, natural around hime and culture around him. I can see that from his designs, that is so obvious, because every collection seems like a story behind it, a culture behind it.  Not every collections seems all about beauty and fashion, some of them are not so pretty but the theme of that collection is very interesting. 

For me, most of my inspirations are from life also. However, I think sometimes I consider too much about beauty, and forget the original reason why I choose the theme. Really learnt a lot from Jean Paul Gaultier's exhibition.

Final Fabric Manipulations

        Inspiration Museum Label

        Black Evil in Red Blooming Rose

A died red rose?

No.

It’s the blooming black rose. 

Full of vigor. 

          Description:

My concept for this collection is a Drying Rose process. 

From bottom to top(photo attached):

1.The blooming rose

2.Through layers and layers

3.she's drying and she lowers her head with shy face

4. The Pain messed up inside her body

（this fabric has two parts）

Left part：cannot stand

right part：calming down

5. The rose became less rage of blooming because of stale. 

The arranged petals and clear layers were caused by drying process. 

6. The nerves stopped beating in rose, withering together.  

                                                          

Reflection:

I love this experience of making fabric manipulations, I had so much fun. I love each pieces that I made, because each of them was made by different techniques. 

It is really hard to choose the favorite one, I love the uniqueness of each of them. However, I would say the third one from the bottom is most successful one, the reason is that, this piece is very elegant in a clean way, also it gives a feeling of drying rose with emotion on it. 

I think this collection really shows my concept of beauty: unpredictable. I would not have known that I will make a collection like this until I finished everything. This result came out with lots of experiences. I did not make an exact rule for my fabric shape, I just had a feeling in my mind, like what kind of feeling this fabric will express, then I tried to make it. Actually, I tried to sketch a pattern for my fabric manipulation once. I tried to make an exactly same fabric. But, in the half of that process, I found it was more beautiful just kept the fabric in that unfinished shape.I like the surprise while creating stuff, it is even more exciting than getting inspirations. After that experience, I learnt that the feeling of the fabrics were more important, sometimes to make a rule for design really restrict ideas to pop up. Thus, this collection are made with unpredictable, and I love it.

Fashion Blog

Fashion blog

http://www.thesartorialist.com/

This is an awesome fashion blog, which provides latest fashion show information and great " on the street" fashion style photos. Really great website to get inspiration from.

Also this blog has different sections like"Women","men","style profile" and etc. Very clearly to  view and useful for everyone.

Beauty of Fabric Manipulation

My definition of beauty is about "unpredictable" and "possibility"

I think from this experience of making fabric manipulation, I found beauty is really about those two words.

Because all my fabric manipulation pieces were ended in the result which I didn't expect, and I LOVE how the results turned out.

I love to create in more unkown way, not the way like "It has to be end like this." It is not about figuring out Math problems, it is about surprise.

This two pieces below is more about test and try. 

For the first one I tried to fold fabric together to give more 3D effect. Because I really like structured items.

All-Sides Gathering

  

For This one below, I tried to cut holes to let fabric can go through into the other piece of fabric. I think this is an interesting way to connect fabric pieces together.

This one I was inspired by "Slashed Tucks"

Also, I was inspired by my beauty item, the "sunrise" one. I wanted to show the layers and layers, steps by steps of "sunrise".

I like this technique, because it can add pretty texture on a simple fabric.

Details

This sample I was inspired by the beauty of "Rose"

After I searched "Pattern Shirring" online, I felt I could make a bigger "Pattern Shirring" and gather them together. It may gave a really interesting result.

It ended very well, I was imaging this pattern could on a beautiful big dress, it must be very romantic.

Details

At the bottom of this pattern, I cut a hole on one piece of fabric

I wanted other two pieces can be connected by using this hole.

Go through it and stay in the hole because of the tightness of the hole.

For this piece, I was inspired my beauty item "ice cube"

I was wondering if I could sew some ice cube on a 3D fabric.

I sew two layers of fabric all together but one side, then put tissue paper through that side, at the end, I sew all sides together.

But when I tried to sew "ice cubes" on the puffy fabric, my sew machine stuck a lot. And when I tried to sew the bottom edge together, my machine didn't work. So, I finished at handed-sewing. I like how the fabric stretched against each other.

I think it would be great to be a fabric of structured skirt, or collar.

This piece is also inspired by "Rose"

I tried to make a "rose feeling" pattern instead of to make a real rose shape.

I wanted to give more possibilities of this piece, and "possibility" is also my definition of beauty.

Research of Fabric Manipulation

Garment Fabric Manipulation

Tutorial 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTAxf72vzI4&list=PLU4HaJGK1Yi2lD16_RyGeeONpiz0VUree

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Process of Beauty Container

For my container, I put rose in a clear bowl of water, then freezed it.

Because I think beauty is unpredicted, I want to hold the beautiful moment, but I still want to see what will happen to the blooming rose day by day in frozen ice. 

It may surprise my, or let me down.

Luckily, I love the result of how the roses turned in refrigerate.

First Day

On the first day : The rose still in blooming red color .

Second Day

On the second day: The rose turned a little bit darker, but still very beautiful.

The part in ice, was drying a little bit slower than the part in the air.

Third Day

On the third day: The rose gave the kind feeling of black rose. Very dry, and if you touched it, it would break easily.

 I like the feeling of the frozen ice seems like spreading on the roses and petals, like a monster is trying to corrode the beauty.

One of the reason why I love this result so much is that, when I went to the flower store, I tried to buy black rose, but they didn't have it. The red rose was the only choice I had, and I was kind disappointed. However, after days, I found I mad black rose by myself! 

 I love how this turned out. I felt lucky that I tried to use frozen ice to be a container, there were so many unknown results that this container could make, it gave the new born of my beauty items.

Spring 2014 Fashion Studio 2---Definition of beauty&Artifact Catalogue

Definition of Beauty

My personal definition of beauty:

For me, beauty is the thing with unpredictable. Beauty can be comfortable, also sometimes, it can be painful. I like comfortable Chanel style, but also Rococo style sexy corset, for me, they all very beautiful. I cannot define that beauty has to be one kind of style, because beauty for me, is a concept with many possibilities. Just like that blooming roses are beautiful, drying roses are also beautiful. Thus, the beauty of "Beauty" is the unknown chances.

Artifact Catalogue

A died red rose?

No.

It’s the blooming black rose. 

Full of vigor.

This traditional dress is the signature of Tang Dynasty, China. The yellow chiffon sleeves and big back-dress with embroidery on show the power of royal which only high status people has the right to wear it. Especially, there are many phoenixes are embroidered on the dress, in ancient china, phoenix means queen. Also, the red silk dress with many delicacy details like clouds, sun and flowers show the luxury of ancient Chinese fashion style.

This is a sexy red lace corset with silk corrugated edge which is so popular in 18 century. Corset is always the best fashion item to show women’s body shape, or force you to be a sexy corset shape, just like this one. Sometimes, beauty just hurt, but worthy.

A luxury Rococo style dress with huge hip and lotus leaf shape sleeves which is the classic silhouette of 18 century in France. The embroidery of the whole dress is delicacy and beautiful, also shows the culture of that period. Anyone can be princess if they can wear this elegant dress, but not everyone has the right to feel it. 

This is a big luxury candle holder. This candle holder is built with different shapes of crystal like rounded shape, needle shape and cylinder  shape. The holder parts are made of silver, the  combination of those wave lines are like big puffy dress under the candles.

The yellow sun is wrapped in the red river like a burning egg. Half is showed upon the river, half is hided secretly. The whole sky is reflected by the sun with red orange which is so quiet. The nature is waiting for the sun baby to come up.

A clear bottle with yellow liquid in, everything is showed, but the smell. The white square label on the bottle rises the elegant feeling of it. Simple design but mysterious. You just cannot resist to put that on to enjoy the pure of it.

This is a bracelet made of hundreds of shinning diamonds. There is a big circle rounded by diamonds and filled in black agate. In the middle of this circle, a leopard is sitting there looking toward the left side. This wild leopard is made of diamonds and black gems. Right upon his head, there is a big green gem. The rest parts of this bracelet are black and white pearls, around 10 lines of them make the bracelet not only luxury but also stylish.

Clear ice

Melting diamond 

Transparent tear

Fade in an hour

Temporary Beauty

This bracelet is made of sanders which is for buddhists. In our belief, sanders can avoid evil. Thus, with this bracelet, buddhists will be healthy and safe.