Alice Callum: Portfolio
CONTENTS Define Your Identity meets Project B Tailoring Hawes and Curtis Fashion Design and Trend Prediction Context of Practice Shirt Project New Technology
Summer Project focusing on colour, in a variety of places around London, Spain and Derby.
Define your identity summer project focusing on colour. Looking at Gaudi, Notting Hill Carnival and street art to inform design process.
Representing colour through dot and line.
Project B Exhibition at Lamberts Yard.
Men’s tailoring project, sketches and research on leather jackets.
Research on Marlon Brando and the Rococo period. Looking at leather jackets whilst considering feminine colours.
Development of leather jacket designs and panel placement.
Further research on Marlon Brando and jacket details.
Technical flat drawings for tailored jacket, which were included in technical package. Using feminine materials and colours to juxtapose traditional leather jacket features.
Final garment.
Four boards working on a brief for Hawes and Curtis to create a new workwear shirt for the modern woman, following the trend of elemental.
Development board exploring piping techniques to add detail.
Final line up of three shirts, exploring muted colours and faded patterns.
Final Shirt Design.
Fashion Design and Trend Prediction inspired by the Earth, Fungi, Bacteria and Mushrooms.
Colour Inspiration.
Using natural forms to inspire design development.
Exploring illustrative styles.
Development on the stand focusing on fabric manipulation to create fungi inspired textures.
Developing stand work to create digital illustrations.
More development on stand, refining the designs.
Technical Flats showing the final designs in detail.
Context of Practice: Exploring internal and external identity.
Design development of a headpiece to represent the connection between internal and external identity.
Context of Practice: Final accessory shoot.
‘It must be questioned how fluid identity really is.’
‘Self-reinvention.’
‘My goal was to be different, strong; to sculpt my own body to reinvent the self.’- ORLAN
‘Internal and external identity are once again closely interlinked.’
Fashion Practice and Contemporary Context - Stand development influenced by Comme des Garcons.
Technical flats exploring design development.
Toile exploring techniques such as macramĂŠ and pleating.
MacramĂŠ and pleating development.
Final shirt.
New Technology - Exploring the feeling punk and Joe Strummers quote ‘Authority was only a system of control and it didn’t have any inherent wisdom.’
Inspired by iconic punks such as Siouxsie & The Banshees and The Sex Pistols whilst exploring the idea of class and symbols of power.
Mixed media and digitally manipulated illustration line up.
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