Seminar #1

My last developing practice project concentrated on understanding how the different pleating methods work. In that project my goal was to discover the new structural forms of the pleats by manipulating the fabric.

My aspiration for the project was to create pleating technique to create a new silhouette through reconstructing and modifying the structure of the body influenced by contemporary architecture. I took my inspiration from architecture to experiment with shape and texture and taken them to develop different hand pleating techniques, creating pleating samples. My intent outcome was to create a pleating technique and use that in my final designed garment.

At this point of new project I don´t know yet where my research or design process is going so it made sense for me to look the relationships between architecture and fashion design.

I have chosen text by Jörg Seifert “ Woven Architecture and Constructed Clothes. On Blurring of Boundaries Between The Second and Third Skin” for my research. The author splits the intersections between architecture and fashion design to five different sections.

1.     The metaphorical level

2.     2. The level of the design process

3.     The material level of the designed objects

4.     The material level of the objects

5.      The functional level of the objects (Seifert, 2009, p.209)

The author in every section subject explains the subject through architecture and fashion aspect and brings up things which are not that clearly taken from the other design practice. The author tells in the text “ the curved façade of the Selfridges store by Future Systems, completed in Birmingham in 2003, is covered in its entirety in sequins – a design element which has long been common practice in fashion design” (Seifert, 2009, p.212)

Work from my own developing practice project. Pleating samples inspired from architecture to create shape and texture.

 

Architecture Image: 

King Fahad National Library, Gerber Architekten Accessed at: http://www.detail-online.com/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/DP2014_Gerber_03.jpg (Downloaded: 22 November 2016)

 

Architecture Image:

Vents, Heatherwick Studio Accessed at: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_uIFyPrEnqHceKuWwDPhOduYBSDBFVVhqD7E87TBoZRJn64IiVRhtzJZcBcr2eraA9lCEXJ8x95RSvWfsalXiRMRE3-i4f7cwlBURVwk537u4h7d5gg3gWMRV1uiosGf0CaQYRneVJwJ/s1600/Heatherwick2.jpg (Downloaded: 22 November 2016)

 

Architecture Image: 

Brick Pattern, Marc Koehler Architects

Accessed at: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1b/97/9f/1b979f976b3fd53fc56be1ad3b5f0d2e.jpg (Downloaded: 22 November 2016)

 Reference:

Buxbaum, G (2009) Sashion in context. New York: Springer Verlag GmbH