For one my modules at level 2, Research and Design Development I was set the task to design an autumn/winter collection for the Japanese conceptual designer, Junya Watanabe. For the first part of the project, I worked within a team to research the designer and his typical customer. We put together the customer board below to give us an overall view of the 'Watanabe customer'.
We then researched the trend predictions for
autumn/winter 2010/11, to gain an insight on the up and coming trends. We kept these trends in mind when designing our
mood board (shown below), however, didn't stick to them completely as throughout our research we found that Watanabe's style was
not completely led by current trend.
We then chose a range of fabrics and components to use within our collections and designed a
fabric board to display them.
The
team work ended here and we split off to design our own collections. A few of my
initial ideas pages are shown below.
I then went on to choose a range of garments for my
final collection. I was to design
10 outfits and show them as fashion sketches illustrating the feel of the collection. I first drew my illustrations by hand, then scanned them into the p.c and used
Photoshop to add colour. I am pleased with how they turned out, as this was my first attempt at
fashion illustration.
We then had to show each of the garments as professional
flat drawings. I used the software,
Lectra, Kaledo Style to draw my flats. I enjoyed experimenting with this new programme although it crashed too many times! The stress was kind of worth it though because I think the flats look really professional. Here is one of my flat drawing boards:
