3. Circular fashion
##Assignments must-haves
- Zero waste! Design on a grid if you want to do this. See Jessica Stanley's example.
- Make it modular: same module should enable the creation of many different garments
- Create a garment
- Take nice pictures
- Upload .dxf files
- add design to opencircularfashion website.
Personal must-haves
- Volume!
- Color!
- 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
Here are two of my fav drag queens who featured on RuPaul: 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 know her hot pinks and I love how she uses big shoulders and jackets for added curve and swerv. She makes ugly even uglier. Utmost respect. I'm all for the camp.
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
Tesselation and interlocking inspiration
- See documentation of of Jessica stanley from last year: it's male/female AND zero waste.
- You can encode messages in the textile too! Eg. Jessica's binary.
- Rei Kabakubo-Comme des Garcons worn by Rihanna. OMG yes.
- Post-Couture Antwerp. Look at their double interlocks. It helps to make things really wearable. Like a tiewrap.
- Ernst Heinrich Häckel's biological drawings!
Other beauties by (left to right): Katie Roberts-Wood, Matija Cop and Stephane Rolland AW16 Haute Couture