MOOD AND COLOR BOARDS

Full Sketchbook Flipthrough

Process:
Sketching and Draping

skecthing and collage section flipthrough

Sketching Process:

I started out my design process by collaging, doing some textile manipulations, and just sketching to get some ideas out.

When sketching I tried a few approaches: sketching as many half sized silhouettes as possible in a set time, using a wide tip marker to just focus on shape then refine and add detail with a pen, and focusing only on a certain details such as pockets or waistlines and then sketching a look around that.

Half -size speed sketches

Broad strokes with marker, then add detail

Details only, then taking those details and sketching around them

Draping Process:

I was very inspired by Rick Owens' and Junya Watanabe's patternmaking with jersey knits when I was draping for this collection. I wanted to capture their ability to create amazing structure with knitwear that still maintains the beauty of the fluidity of the fabric.

I wanted the drapes to convey the message of my collection by creating a sort of visual tension between the structural and fluid. To do this I draped thicker stiffer knits in more structural and more fluid ways, and then thinner stretchier jerseys in more structural and more fluid ways.

Fluid Draping

Structural Draping

Draping Section Flipthrough

Tracing the drapes

Making structural drapes more fluid looking

Making fluid drapes more structured

Some of my favorite drapes and traces:

Zero Waste Draping Process:

To get even more abstract with my draping, I wanted to try taking a square of fabric, cutting it up into random pieces and then trying to sew those pieces back together in a way that resembled a garment. As a creative exercise this really helped me think outside of the box with my patternmaking in a way that I couldn't with traditional draping.

There was also the added bonus that all of these pieces would be zero-waste which is something I am passionate about. If a garment is going to be zero-waste though, I think the pattern should have a creative worth of its own regardless of the zero-waste aspect of it, so these experiments were perfect for me.

I started out draping with paper and scrap fabric. But then I realized CLO 3D would be the perfect tool to do tests in as I wouldn't be wasting any materials and I could adjust seams and placements infinitely and quickly.