Summer Internship: Day 37

Before I left the studio on Friday, Christopher suggested that I buy a couple fashion magazines.  This was to assist with the other part of my homework, which was to come up with four total print ideas for the collection I am creating. I already had created one, which was the black and white randomized print.  The other is the jacquard print that I had bought from JoAnn's.  

This morning I went out to Target and picked up an issue of the August Harper's Bazaar.  

Rather than looking at articles, I was mainly interested in the advertisements as well as fashion photos.  There was texture everywhere!

Beading, lace, studs, leather, quilting, furs, and much more were included within the issue!  Another concept Christopher wanted me to pay attention to was the placement as well as proportion and scale of the additives.  Ideally, within the Avant Garde piece I needed to come up with for the finale, he wanted to see an evolution of the previous print I had come up with.  That meant taking those scale-like shapes I had created and moving them, minimizing/maximizing or changing the figures themselves somehow.

I thought back to the original inspiration; my pearl ring.  What if I used physical black and white pearls on the gown versus trying to re-concept the flat print itself?  I brainstormed out my ideas, analyzing everything from trim, to silhouette.  I needed to evolve this somehow so the whole collection would make sense and read well to an audience.  This is what I came up with:

   

The dress is strapless, hugging down the body until around the knee where it flares out giving the same hem shape as the evening cocktail dress.

I wanted to stick with the theme of having a trim but rather than doing silver like the rest of the pieces, I wanted to use black lace to stick to the elegance and sophistication that pearls have.

The grouping at the top near the trim represent black and white pearls.  They gradually drip down the gown fewer and fewer.  We still have that black and white randomized concept but they are smaller and in a different pattern than the original; therefore creating the evolution.  The gown itself would be done in a white pearl color, so a little more iridescent than what is displayed.  

Tomorrow I am going to continue the process and source materials that I could possibly include in the collection.  I would love to for sure physically make a couple of the pieces depending on the luck I have:)