Fashion Journal

Research for my Project

I have a project at college to design a one off shirt for an exhibition. I had to pick either the 50's 60's or 70's era to collect visual research that would help me produce a pattern and shape for a shirt.

Here is my inspiration:

 I looked at punk rock and had already started looking at designing

in the early stages of research!

 I then looked at images that could influence my pattern for the shirt

like these word prints. But I didn't end up using it.

I found looking at Vivienne Westwood's early work really helpful

and started playing around with designs with a subtle hint of

fetish.

I also looked at her Punk designs to help inspire my own.

I looked at punk images and patterns and came up with these

designs. I took my inspiration from Vivienne Westwood's

punk designs, punk images which I found a houndstooth print

and Henry Hollands big leaopard prints from which he took

inspiration from 70's punk.

These are the rest of my designs. The last 3 were ones I took from

David Bowie and his guitar. These are more outrageous designs

that would have been complicated to make. However my group

suggested I make this one:

So then I started developing my pattern and creating my toile:

This is my shirt bottom as my shirt is more like a shirt-dress

The first stage of my toile. I haven't yet developed my collar

and button stand pattern so that is my next step.

Also this fabric is really quite horrible so hopefully

my fabric that I choose to use will look better!

I started on my final toile to see how it would work.

The button stand, collar, and cuffs worked well here

and the hem. Everything went well and then I 

realized that I wanted to use Leatherette for these

parts instead so I had to do other samples

 I found it easy to change these parts of the shirt
and I think the leather really works well with the
colours and my theme.

  I developed my design boards so that they were
simple and that the illustrations stood out. So I 
took the pattern I developed from my research that I 
used on my designs and put it in the corner of the design 
boards and wrote the collection name down the side in black glitter to represent Glam Rock.

I needed to start looking into my packaging and my swing tag
so I did research on 70's packaging and promotion 
to give me inspiration.
From it, I developed this print for my bag and swing tag: