Silhouette with chair
In this session, we used a chair to create different and unusual silhouette's by working on the chair before putting it on the stand. This was also achieved by using two or more tailored de constructed jacket.
I left three holes when pinning the jackets together for the head and the arms. After this we took it out from the chair and set it on the stand.
This image above is one of the ideas that came out just by putting the piece on the stand. This will help create many different new and innovative design ideas.
This image above is another garment idea just by moving the original shape on different places. Each turn has it's own unique style.
As shown on the image, In detail the draping and pleating can be clearly seen. If this was made into a real garment the feature of it will be the flaps around the bodice.
To get more variations, we got two chairs together and pinned the garment around it and a small single chair.
These two designs so far are the most interesting and unusual garment ideas that we have created. After this we have decided to combine other fabrics to develop it even further.
This are the details images of the garment, it is interesting to see the shapes and the flow of the garment.
Again this image are just more experimentation working around the structure of the chair.
From that chair, This are the two designs that I have produced. Overall, de-constructing tailored jackets are really interesting and helps create initial ideas.
Deconstructed Tailor Jacket
In this workshop, we had to deconstruct a man's tailored jacket to create other garments.
The jacket i got is from a charity shop in canning town.
To start this I have taken photographs of the jacket inside and out to get the details and its original state.
I also looked at the buttons, collar, pockets and the way it has been lined.
I have then started to unpick the lining of the jacket, by doing this it helps me to understand the way the garment was constructed. It shows the different materials they have used such as felt and interfacing.
After unlining the tailored jacket, the other fabrics and paddings can now be seen clearly. It is interesting to the inside of it.
I then took the lining completely and ironed it using the industrial irons.
Using the lining I used to create garment ideas directly onto the stand.
Here are some more ideas which are more draped and compliment the garments.
I also used the actual jacket to create interesting garment ideas and structures. By doing this deconstruction it helps to create unusual silhouettes.
To develop this even further, I combined the lining and the jacket to create more style and ideas.
After playing around on the stand, I have unstitched a seam and try to arrange them one by one. This way I can improve it by having different pieces to work at.
I have taken another seam off to have more variety into the garments ideas.
Overall, I found this workshop very beneficial and interesting. This deconstruction reminds of Yohji Yamamotos work which is about minamalism and asymetric shapes.
The Japanese minimalist movement, which radicalised and democratised the fashion world in the 1980s, is poised to make a comeback this year.
When the designers Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo, founder of Comme des Garçons, became the toast of Paris fashion week in the early 1980s, their relentlessly monochrome, asymmetric and intellectual vision of clothing was a revelation.
(Mark C O'Flaherty guardian.co.uk,
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