Final Year Collection Ideas

By Charlotte Weatherby

Original Ideas Re-constructed Textiles – Using Curtains,

and fabrics found in charity shops to create Garments.

Natural Textures – Looking at corals, floral, Bark, stagnates, etc. and manipulating the textures in to Garments.

Enchanted Woodland – using woodland textures, to make garments to fit within a mystical woodland theme.

Reconstructed Textiles• Using Used Fabric's like curtains and

furnishings to create garments.

• Looking in Charity shops, Vintage shops and ask for donations for fabrics.

• The thing that inspired me for this was when I made this jacket on my placement.

• However, an issue would be that a lot of the fabrics would be random.

Natural Textures

Natural Textures Looking at Natural

Textures:

E.g., Coral, stagnates, fungus, bark and floral’s!

And then manipulating these onto fabric and garments.

I would like to use print, Knit and laser cutting to achieve this.

Enchanted Woodland

Developing from the natural textures theme, I would like to look at woodland textures.

I was also inspired by the Enchanted palace exhibition at Kensington palace, To create an Enchanted Woodland Theme.

Enchanted Woodland

I would like to create a couture collection, for a high end market, concentrating on the detailing rather than complex patterns of the garments based around the story of a girl trapped in an Enchanted Woodland also Looking at the woodland textures and silhouette's.

“Step down the stairs under the bed into the Dark Woods,

They danced into the dark, into the wild, into the dark wild

wood. Each in their own way escaping”

- The Room of the Dancing Princess, Kensington Palace.

Enchanted Woodland

Key things to research will be;

• Bark, Floral and Fungi textures.

• Enchanted fairies• Enchanted Palace

Exhibition• Current collections

EG, Valentino A/W 11• Textile artist’s

creating texture• Tree silhouette’s

Enchanted Woodland - Samples

Enchanted Woodland

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