Fashion & Textile

The project title was "Compress Expand". For compress, we had to think about pressing things together or to reduce in volume. The tutors gave us words such as : squash, make smaller, decrease, crush.  For expand, we had to think about laying things out, to open up; and the useful words were: stretch, enlarge and inflate.

In the first week we worked mainly on breaking away from the 'normal' concept of fashion. So we had to draw some very random drawings. I found it quite confusing because I didn't know why I was doing all those drawings. One of the examples is below.

 

After these drawings, we continued working with 3D models. Some examples are below.

Some 3D models made with different types of papers. We didn't have a specific purpose in creating these shapes, it was more about what we can do with them after we've created them. For example, we could play with scale and transform these models into jewelery or clothing.

 

There wasn't a final product for this project, therefore I was very confused all the way through the project because I didn't had a target to work towards... therefore, I don't like the result of this project.