3D Superimposition

First of August...2018

Behind this gate hide several layers of life: 

on a wet day by Tay Ho Lake the circumstances look unusual, everything takes on a glistening reflection for a stop in time when things appear in a new light, exposing the superimposition of layers of lives...

From a further perspective the story changes again. More seems to appear in the distance behind the red roof. Another two or three rows of apartment blocks and buildings emerge to reveal a superimposition of architectural forms from various eras in time linking a sequence of life stories.

HierarCHIC...

HierarCHIC  HierarchicAL... 

Have your pick...

Linguistically the word seems to offer freedom of choice...

Creatively speaking... not so sure...

 Beautiful sketching, excellent pattern cutting, yet unfinished Unit: no final outcome for quite a few participants of the hierarchic ladder design-pattern-construction...

Questions:

 Is this a common feature of the Fashion Design Delivery process? 

Is the hierarchical element detrimental to final outcome achievement?

Isn't it more productive to create within and be nourished by non-hierarchic systems?

Evaluations of the design process of a new garment help establish the Design Challenge and list the possible issues before the pattern cutting stages start, ask the lecturers for input, then solve those issues gradually and make notes each time.

Thick folders display weekly assignments, each envelope contains the final industrial pattern with all important notches: a coding system to allow the smooth production of a garment by linking each pattern piece to the next.

Going back to Tweed and ...

  Meet soon at the Studio--- to work on more mini - productions -  all made in North London from Sueme Creative Studio to local jacket factory ...

Recycled Fleece made out of post consumer plastic bottles... with Echoic jackets designed and made for Sueme Sustainable Sportswear London...

sporting most comfortable natural eco-friendly next to skin, hybrid jackets and interesting nature loving graphics...

and highland inspired traditional UK woolens mixed with high-tech US fleece, finished with a touch of Japanese recycled zip technology and French super lazer cut reflecting tapes

Most Inspirational...

Final year Collection Designer, is Number 8 Creator who designed cut and made her entire sculptural collection evoking Human Nature Imbalances turn to beautifully balanced designs...

Well Done TT...

                                      to be revealed after Show, 11th of August...

Final Presentation Week

Celebrating Global take on Fashion at LCDF 2018-- Evening Wear -- Final presentation -- following 5 weeks of French Draping lecturing:

From Mauritania, presenting the Eye of the Desert print:

Emerging Label Tetou

From Myanmar, talented print turn textile turn funky wearable outfits,

New Label: Dandy Ageless

From Vietnam, beautiful intricate panelling cut to perfection, 

DaNia architectural Creations 

Most Improved ...

The true gift of your hands...

Term 3 - year 1 - HNC BTEC  - Evening Wear - French Draping - Student presentation of final project -- following a Street Wear project (Term 2) and white shirt project (Term 1) both rendered with flat drafting techniques which turn out much more arduous then draping fabric, using new techniques learnt over a period of 5 classes, shaping straight on the mannequin, drawing every design line exactly as wished  on the calico covered form... a true revelation...

Women Leading the way to Peace

Courtesy of the Vietnamese Women's Museum

Amazing Women

 

Casting

Well done LCDF 2018 Graduates to present your beautiful creations... What a buzz in the College...
What a treat to see your designs trotted down the middle of the design studio... What an emotion for those of you who worked in the sewing studio every day, every evening late, in order to finish these exquisite montages. Congratulations and good luck for the 11th of August Fashion Show.

Re-collections

Our inspiration today comes from discovering Treesforlife.org.uk for their contribution to the global warming fight by planting trees to restore Caledonian Woodlands---   https://treesforlife.org.uk/

Textile and wood link eternally into threads-- with so many global usages we can spend days recollecting, sketching, creating, being connected and re-connected, with our own hands, creativity, people, regions, passions...(Duang Ninh Museum)

Re-collecting textile projects:
Pick a Leaf nor a Fight ...  Tottenham based youth creative textile design workshops delivered from 2012 to 2016 to learn about and display leaves from various regions, sketching them, write a story and create group artwork as inspiration for textile design and fashion design...in partnership with Haringey Youth Center 10 Bruce Grove, run by Creative Studio 4 participants --- to promote nature, art and peace in our inner cities.

Plastic Hearts ... cut out of production factory offcuts of Echoic Jacket (Sueme Sustainable Sportswear) PET recycled fleece from Polartec... can be used as little cotton pads or essence diffuser in cuboards to deter moths or just a room aroma freshener...

Celebrating the magic of your own creative hands...

5 French Draping Sessions

To achieve the Evening dress of your Dreams...

Emerging Global Sustainability

Message to Ella from UKftRise: enquiring about possibilities: our College graduates collections centre around sustainability, is there a way to capture global youth forward thinking in any kind of Global Youth Creative event- yet to organise?

At College

Walking to College

Views from Vietnam

Street Wear Creations LCDF 18

Some of the designs of term 2 students interpretation of Street Wear

French Draping at LCDF

Third term student working on Evening Wear...

  at London College for Design and Fashion, Hanoi 

IconicPlisse: IP

IP--- Intellectual Property ---
All designers face difficulties to keep their original designs or ideas protected, especially when displaying online...

 

#selfprotect : new sustainable self protection : date, time, location -- respect                                               

Visiting Protected Bear Jungle

 Getting inspiration on a trip travelling alone to Luang Prabang to get visa renewed to work in Hanoi as Pattern cutter Lecturer...

IconicPlisse: Free Yourself

IconicPlisse: Free Yourself --: Celebrating crafts that last... Political Marilyn...  Choosing a type of textile effect can be a task... Looking at Marilyn