Final Evaluation

Evaluation


This is my evaluation for unit 122&128. Unit 122 is about pattern Development for Fashion and Clothing and the Unit 128 is about the Garment production.

The block that I have used for my final collection was the dress block because all my four design was a dress therefore I did not have to create my own blocks but because my time is running out I decided that my fourth design will be an identity of my third design but because I don’t want it to be exact copy I have made changes by reflecting the design and using different fabrics for every section. I have use a modelling-on-stand method for my third and fourth design because the look of my design was a side shoulder dress with stretch boobs tube and stretch short skirt and therefore I feel it is easier to work on stand with the stretch fabric as it give the perfect fit.

The information that I putted on the pattern was my name, design number, size, description or name of the pattern, grain line, seam allowance, notches and number of fabric that need cutting out. This information is so important to write down onto the pattern because if your pattern get lost they will know who its belong to and if u would send it off to the factory or to somebody who is working for you they will be able to read and follow the pattern instruction by looking at the symbol and information.

When I created a lay plan I have to consider the width and the length of the fabric that I will be using and the price of the fabric. From carrying out this process I have learnt that you have to be accurate with measurement because you don’t want to waste your money and fabric. This is so important to an industry because if you’re using a very expensive fabric and you’re not accurate with measurement you will be wasting a lot of your money.

After I have completed my costing sheet I have learnt how I can set a price for my design fairly. Relating to an industry the costing sheets help them to figure out the price and hours they spend for the design and the price they should sell the design for and also the price of the design will shows is your design are suiting your customer target.

At first when I started CAD I find it very difficult because it is very confusing to me but once I keep practicing everything became much more easy compare to when I first started the CAD lesson, from completing my spec drawing I have learnt how I will manufacture my design because you will have to put in every detail about your design onto CAD. In an industry CAD is important to use to show the worker how you want your design to look like and this will help them manufacture your design correctly.

The most difficult section in my collection was the pleats skirt because there are many pieces of it therefore it is very fiddly to sews and having to stiffen it for my final fabric was making it worst because it doesn’t give any flexibility at all so I find it really hard to attach the skirt to the bodice, so I have problem solve this by hand tack it to the bodice.

Reflecting on my fabric choice it was appropriate for my target customer because the fabric was a very good quality and very expensive.

In this process the toile diary and blogging process is very important because it will help you understand how you created your design when you come back to look at it in the future, as a designer it help you to memorise how you created the design and not making the mistake u did when u were toiling.

My target audience was couture/Avant guard market. I am targeting at female age 20-38 that has a well-paid income. My colour pallet meets their needs because it involved gold, silver, black and a little dash of pink. The choice of fabrics meets the market target by communicating through the sparkling gold colour and the choice of hem has also met the target because it has been hand sews. I was very happy with the final garment outcome; however I could neaten it by spending more time attaching the pleats skirt to the bodice.

I feel that my strength was the manufacturing side because I think I did really well on it and my weaknesses would be the writing and explaining side of it. Reflecting on the past academic year I am glad that I have picked this course to study and I feel I have gain more knowledge about how to construct clothes, working with CAD, illustration and understanding more about fashion.

My concept board for Asos green company

Spending my time learning how to use the photoshop...Pheeeewww! I finally completed it.
An image below show my concept board for the Asos green company, this is part of the unit 127 work that is outstanding at the moment.

Here is the result....

What do you think about it?

I am now slightly happy as I have now handed in all my work for the Unit. 127

My final fabric

I went in London on Monday to purchase the fabric for my final year collection and today am going to show you for what fabric I have purchase so far...

All together in total, my fabric cost £197.50
My favourite one out of all is the sparkling fabric in the middle, this cost £32 per metre and it is purchase from the fabric shop in London called The Cloth Shop.

The fabric you saw above is just a start because I also need to buy some cheap plain fabric for my pleats.
Once I've got my fabric from London and because it is so nice and lovely I just really cannot wait to start on my fabric.

Lifting the mountain off ma chest!

Pheeeeewww!!! I felt like my post title ^______^

I am very happy now because I has just complete my another outstanding unit, which will make my shoulder feel a lot lighter.
Today in college I have completed my unit 127 which is the Fashion Visualisation.

Here are some example for you to look at from my research file.

Yaeko Abe 

Yaeko Abe is a professional illustrator and a toy designer. She graduated from Fashion Institute of Technology I 2008 with a B.F.A. in toy design; she worked in a corporate toy industry as a designer in New York City and Philadelphia before entering the full time freelance world. As a toy designer, she has worked on brands like Barbie, Nickelodeon and Disney.

Method and Techniques.

-       Pen

-       Markers

-       Ink

-       Photoshop

Style and Mood.

Her style is quite simple as you can see from her simple drawing and colours that convey the mood of dark humour and beauty.

I think this is one of a clever simplicity piece of work. To me I just love it because it not fussy, just plain simple beauty.

Something simple that could make the work beautiful.

My attempt at illustrator ^^

This is my first attempt of illustration created on photoshop.

My No. 3 Design

This is my spec drawing for my third Design

Trend Board

Before leaving college I manage to complete my trend board. This is done by photoshop.

Spec drawing

As I had mention on the last previous post that I will upload some more spec drawing as soon as it finish.

Today in college I'd been drawing my design spec drawing, in total I have to complete four spec drawing but this is what I had so far...

Now am ready to present my second spec drawing ^_^

My Spec drawing

This is my first design spec drawing for my collection.

At the moment my fabric sample isn't yet ready to be photoshop onto the design so what I did here was just a plain spec drawing.

I will soon upload some more design spec drawing as soon as I have completed them.

My final design ^_^

On this post I will show you my final four design out of 50 design that we had to complete for my second year college fashion show.

My theme for this collection is a mixed culture. It about the two main countries that myself had experienced. My collection was mainly inspired by origami paper and crystals. My concept for this collection is a special occasions. I am designing for a culture market level and below is my design.

Design no.1

Design no.2

Design no.3

And finally last design...

Design no.4

Market Levels

Market level

High street fashion – this is the fashion you commonly see people wear on the street.  There are three levels in High street fashion; low high street ( Primark ), Mid high street ( New look ) and High-end high street ( Karen Millen). Because people are trying to buy clothes they see on the runway but cannot afford this is why high street fashion come in and try to copy the runway clothes but they are not allow to copy because of the copyright, what high street fashion designer have to do is they have to do is to made an 80% changes to their design otherwise they will get sue.

http://www.couturelab.com/products/Summer_Wool_Dress-5390-c1243D13PT1.html 

Because an image is copyright, I cannot upload it. Please click the link above to view an image.

http://www.newlook.com/shop/womens/dresses/black-capped-sleeve-dress_248030001?tmcampid=76&tmad=c&extcam=CSE_2010_Ggl_001&CAWELAID=1247014976

The link above show the similar dress but with an affordable price.

High-end high street – this is similar to the high street but more higher quality and price as the name describe it self. Example of High-end high street would be Karen Millen, Debenhams etc.

Here are examples of High-end high street looks.

http://www.couturelab.com/products/Forest_Green_One_Shoulder_Jersey_Dress-5648-c1111PT1.html

The link above shown Isabel Toledo one shoulder pleat dress in a price of £3,511

http://www.frenchconnection.com/product/Woman+Collections+Dresses/71AO7/Spell+On+You+Maxi+Dress.htm 

The link above shown the similar design but different colour in a much cheaper price. £150

Fast Fashion - this is a cheap and affordable clothes which are the result of catwalk designs moving into stores. Example of fast fashions are Primark, Select etc.

http://www.alexandermcqueen.co.uk/uk/en/shop/Womenswear/Shop/Dresses/P-RASPBERRY-SILK-FAILLE-COCKTAIL-DRESS.aspx

Click on the link above to view Alexander Mcqueen raspberry silk faille cocktail dress. £1,495

http://misshighstreet.com/article/index/view/id/2042

The link above show the similar outfit but has a different material and print in a very much cheaper price for only just £10 !

After researching the high street market, I am quite surprise of how prices are completely changed with a slight change of the design.

Toile Dairy

Cut out the skirt piece.

Cut x 1 : waistband and Cut x 1 : interfacing.

Iron on the interfacing to the waistband piece.

Attach the waistband to the skirt piece, sew a waistband piece to a skirt with a 1.5 seam allowance like the picture show below.

Fold the top edge to a 1.5 and bring it to the stich line and sew closely like the picture show below.

This is what it look like close up.

And this is what is look like as a whole piece. Next step is to stiffen my fabric, cut out and make an ankle piece and attach the string on to it then it finish. ( I apologize there is no complete photo of my design because the waist is too small to fit the maniquin therefore if I was to photograph this, I would need to find a model who have a waist to fit my design.)

At first I was going to use Non-shrinking dope to stiffen my fabric but as my company is suistanable I had a second thought and decided that I would like to use a different method that suit the suistanability and I has found the starch method to stiffen my fabric.

 

While I sampling with my starch, I decided to make my ankle piece ready.

Iron on the interfacing to make the waistband.

Cut out my skirt piece on a real fabric and attach it to a waistband.

This is the starch I used.

Mixed the starch with water until it became unitedly.

While waiting for the starch to melt with water, I washed to skirt with water; this is for the starch to soak evenly onto the piece.

Add the starch little at a time onto a boil water and keep stirring.

As you can see that the starch is now clear, almost like a water.

Stir and check the thickness of the starch.

Once it clear like this. This mean that it ready!

Soak the whole piece.

Drying time ^_^

This is what the result came out like. It is stiffen but not to a level that I was imagine it to come out like.

Now the skirt piece is ready it is time to do my ankle piece,  I decided that I will use velcro as it save time and convenience to change size if this doesn't fit the model; this is also suitable for my design because my company collection is quite sporty so using Velcro remind me of trainers which links to the company collection. The picture you see above is a heavy duty Velcro that I will be using for my ankle piece which you can convenienly stick on the garment.

Place the sticky side of a Velcro onto the fabric.

Stick the Velcro onto the ankle piece.

Over locked around the skirt.

Fold in the hem, using the over locker stitch as a guide and sew closely.

Inserted the invisible zip.

Attached the top end of strings onto the bottom of the skirt

Attached the bottom end of strings onto the ankle pieces.