The Return Of Aimee

Been gone away for two years......omg how ive not kept updating it. Im going to try to update once a week show my progress of my uni work of year 2 fingers crossed i keep up with it lool

Group A, B Womeswear Group C Menswear

Looking at the list which has been giving to pick a group to reasearch on I have decided to go with Group A .
Which consist of :

• Comme Des Garcons
• Masion Martin Margiela
• Giles
• Basso & Brooke
• Christopher Kane
• Balenciaga

My New Home--------->De Montfort Uni

Recently just recieved my enrolment pack and my summer project in the mail. Oooh Im excited :). Ive got a list of things needed to be done for uni and this summer project is another thing added. Im unsure of yet which group of designers im goin to pick to focus my study on . I wanna pick soon though because I wanna start this project asap so ive got plenty of time to do it and do it to the best of my ablity .


Woop Woop bring on uni :-D

Just An Update

ive bin at home wrking on my collection . Its going on need to go to the pleaters to get my bfabrics pleated and i also need to re -draft on of my patterns cuz it seem that i didnt pick it up on friday or either i have lost it . will add pics lata

Thoughts.......

Mmmh haven't really been on i awhile ........been quite stressed try to get my toile finish for the photoshoot. Mt first attemps were terrible the pleating wouldnt hold and it truly pissed me off to the point where I wanted to just throw it in the bin. But try to stay positive i re-worked with my pattern to find another way to use my pleating. My toile looks ok I'm happy I got it done I think in my final fabrics it would look alot better. Im using leatherette , blackout lining and refelective strips. If i buy my leatherette tomorrow I can make two of my skirts which i know i can do :) .

Flats

These are the flats i have done on adobe illusatrator of my collection. I think they have turned out quite good , my skills on using illustrator are improving as i progress with using the program :)

Fabrics II

Today ive spent alot of time going to fabric shop looking for white fabrics :

Blackout linen
chiffon
georgettre
satin back dupion
microfibre
satin based panama
cotton drill
leatherette
panama
knitted nylon & cotton satin stretch

Theses are all the fabrics i have looked at questioned weather to use in my collection some were fabrics i used just purely to sample with , to see how i work with white.
I was unsure of what fabrics to use i really liked the blackout fabric , thats became my favourite.
Speaking with lorna she help me to decide which fabrics are best for my collection- cotton drill , blackout
Ive also with the link that emily posted been able to find a couple of manufacturers on the UK which stock scotchlite
www.williamsmith.co.uk/index.cfm
www.spandex.com/uk/
and emailed them about 3m the reflective fabric which they have replied sending me there price books.

Collection + Flats

Just finish re-drawing out my final collection , i have start to work out my flat for them there not offically finish i need to put more detail on them which i will finish tomorrow. Im sleepy it time for bed lool x

Add pictures in the morning cant find my lead lool

Template

Mmmmh I've been try to create sum templates I dont particular like them but oh well its apart of the progression lool . Im gna bring one of my magazines in tomorrow so that I photocopy some of the images out of in order to re-start again with this template thing, cause i know im not about to cut up my magazine espically how im trying to collect each issue :)

FMP Songs 2

Tiga - Move Body (Boys Noize Remix)

FMP Songs 1

Boys Noize Oh! ( A-Trak remix)

Coventry Transport Museum

Today I visted coventry's transport museum with my nephew. I was amazed to see all the different types of vechicle from cars, buses , bicycles etc. I werent able to do alot of drawings buti was able to take pictures of the different types of transport. I will upload the pictures lata .

Mmmmh is questioning what to name my collection. Any ideas ?

Fabrics

Following the talks from our crit on thursdays im going to see how it goes with doing an all white collection.

To day I went to get some fabrics :

• Leatherette
• Chiffon
• Panama
• Knitted Nylon & Cotton Satin Stretch

I wanna have a mix of light weight and medium weight fabrics. I also been looking online for perspex and reflectivce fabrics.

I have sent emails to a few compaines and are awaiting reply . There was one place I found were I could buy a roll of reflective tape for 0.50 put the posting n packaging on that was an ridiculous price for something that so cheap. And i ent paying that price for one little thing. KMT.

Tomorrow in my lessons going to BANG out loads of samples - take some fabric to tamekas pleater to get pleated and maybe start my pattern cutting, i would of went to college and done my sampling today but I ent really feel to good :(

Escher

Escher is a dutch graphic artist. He is known for his mathmatical inspired lithographs, woodcuts and mezzotins.They feature construction of architecture and tessellations.


Tessellation - is when something is repeated over and over again without any gaps or overlaps.


If I had luked at escher's work earlier on before I did my codatrace for my print i would of been inspired to use his methods of tessellation to create my print.Looking at the equations that are behind how a certain image is mapped out for a print. I find escher work inspiring an maybe if I have a chance if possible I could use my screen that I have and block out certain areas to recreate a tessellation print.