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3. Circular fashion


Image of the final result of the week

##Assignment must-haves

  1. Zero waste! Design on a grid if you want to do this. See Jessica Stanley's example.
  2. Make it modular: same module should enable the creation of many different garments
  3. Create a garment
  4. Take nice pictures
  5. Upload .dxf files
  6. Add design to opencircularfashion website.

Personal must-haves

  1. Volume!
  2. Color!
  3. A big garment!

Cecilia's Tips and tricks

  • There should be a logic to this to I guess. Write it up, document it REAAAAAAALLY well. Test your instructions with someone else.
  • Make a "pattern", like a knitting pattern.
  • To make a garment: design the modules into the dress pattern, you can design finished edges.
  • Rhino can make nice arrays
  • Grid: triangle, hexagon, square? This determines your structure.
  • Use decorative elements: what do you want it to look like?
  • Material: determines width of cuts and arrows.

Inspiration

###Drag aesthetic of Kimchi and Trixie Mattel

Here are two of my fav drag queens who featured on RuPaul's Drag Race: Kimchi (top) and Trixie Mattel (bottom), and Violet Chachki (bottom right), who is probably not my favourite, but this pink tassled ensembluh is pretty amazing.

What I love love love about Kimchi is her fearless choice of geometric garments. I mean she goes big and chunky and pulls it off so well. I think she self-tailors almost all of it too. And the color palette with the pastels, especially the minty green with pink. It's a win.

Trixie on the other hand, way less avant-garde and instead more country-barbie on steroids just knows her hot pinks and I love how she uses big shoulders and jackets for added curv and swerv. She makes ugly even uglier: utmost respect. I'm all for the camp.


Images by Studio Brak, taken from Klaar's instagram

Some inspiration after-the-fact came from Paulina (thank you!!!) whose friend Darvin Klaar designed these gorgeous outfits for his graduation project. Love.

###Technical inspiration

The very very basic technique of increasing and decreasing like is done in crochet to gradually increase the width of the grid you are crocheting.

This church I pass by everyday actually has a gorgeous pattern! The way it goes from small elements to bigger ones is also a way to increase and decrease in width. One of the things I'd like to do.


The church I pass by every day, Loes Bogers