Design And Cut Portfolio

Alena Bessant DESIGN & CUT Portfolio

Central Saint Martins Experimental And Explorative Approaches to Patternmaking with Patrick Lee Yow Exploring unconventional and inventive approaches to patternmaking and shape creation to inform the design process.

Couture Corset Free Drape Geometric 3D Shapes

Couture Corset Processes

Free Drape Design development

3D Shapes Design development

Free Drape

Experimenting with geometrical shapes

Inspired Students Final Collection, BA (Hons) Fashion

Inspired Students Future Fashion, BA (Hons) Fashion, level 5

Central Saint Martins & Institut Franรงais de la Mode New Approaches to Fashion Design Experimental and explorative approaches to fashion design, design research, ways of communicating a clear vision of creative identity and an in-depth understanding of creative universe and style components.

Personal Portfolio

Transformational Reconstruction 9 month Master Class with Japanese Designer Shingo Sato TR– an intuitive and an artistic approach to creative pattern cutting without using the strict mathematical patternmaking system.

TR is an innovative and open-minded approach to the creative process for fashion designers.

Transformational Reconstruction

TR Design Development

Inspired Students: Charna Cole, level 6 Final Major Collection, BA (Hons) Fashion

Charna Cole

Charna Cole

TR Portfolio Class Couture hand stitching techniques suitable for double-sided fabrics that complement and complete the TR finishing processes.

Double-sided wool finish

Inspired Students Final Collection, BA (Hons) Fashion, level 6

Subtraction Cutting An approach to garment pattern making that incorporates chance discovery and the ability to cut fast and inaccurately without too much reference to numbers, fractions and sizing scales. Method developed

by Julian Roberts.

Images via Julian Roberts

Images via Julian Roberts

Subtraction Cutting

Inspired Students: International Summer Workshop 2014 Arts University Bournemouth

Inspired Students: Sugino Fashion University , Japan The Celebration of Alexander McQueen Summer Course 2018

Visiting Lecturer Prague Academy of Art, Architecture and Design Atelier of Fashion and Footwear Design Innovative and Explorative Design & Pattern cutting workshop for BA and MA Fashion Students.

Students work in progress at AAAD

Visiting Lecturer IMT, Fashion Design Institute, Prague, Czech Republic Free Drape pattern cutting workshop for fashion students and general public.

Arts University at Bournemouth BA (Hons) Fashion Design Mannequin experiments & Design development Stand exercises to explore possibilities of shapes and silhouettes through augmentation of existing garments to free up students attitude to stand work. Nothing is to be used in its conventional way.

Inspired Students: Frederick Olafsson, Level 5 BA Fashion—womenswear

Inspired Students: Catherine Thompson, Level 5 BA Fashion—childrenswear

Catherine Thompson

Inspired Students: Millie Turner, Level 5 BA Fashion—womenswear

Millie Turner

Arts University at Bournemouth BA (Hons) Fashion Design Conceptual design & experimental pattern cutting Working with Fashion Design students across all levels delivering conceptual design and explorative pattern cutting.

Inspired Students: Lara Gunnarsdottir Final Major Project –menswear

Inspired Students: Harriet Kendall Neal Final Major Project—womenswear

Inspired Students: Harriet Kendall Neal GFW catwalk, images via Vogue.com

Inspired Students Alice Polly – F.A.D. competition finalist 2015 (Fashion Awareness Direct)

Inspired Students: Leah Tuberville—Level 6 Final Major Project—menswear

Inspired Students: Yu Lin Fu — Level 6 Final Major Project 2017 womenswear & menswear

Inspired Students: Elizabeth Perry— Winner of the Burberry & Lectra Competition 2014

ALENA BESSANT FASHION DESIGNER/EXPERIMENTAL CUTTER CV: uk.linkedin.com/in/alenabessant/ / alenabessant@hotmail.co.uk Tel: +44 7935 855144 / United Kingdom

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