Transform and Restructure

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TRA NSF ORM.

KRUTIKA SHARMA

explorations done with paper to create textures.

TRANSFORM AND RESTRUCTURE.

The project aims at building a new design approach, one that questions the existing paradigm of garment and body.

Inspired by sculpture, architecture, photography and various art forms,the project approaches the garment with precise sense of dissesction and engineering. It interrogates the tension between two-dimensional pattern and its three dimensional materiality, playfully exploring and utilising- shape color and texture- to articulate the form.

In the brief i had to take a mundane form and translate it into a 3-d garment which plays with the space around.

EHT SUTOL YROTS .

THE LOTUS STORY .

observing behaviour of forms around body at different angles and movement.

sketches of packaging done from different angles, considering and exploring the keywords extracted.

PACKAGING. The first task was to study the relation between the garment and the body and how to respect the space between to sustain a moving form.

For that i studied all aspects of an interesting packaging.

Understanding how to incorporate movement in solid forms through different techniques of folds and pleats.

Issey Miyake’s vocabulary of pleats gives a whole new

possibility for dresses and forms.

origami pleats folds

veasyble project : self structuring ruff

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Spec to understand how a packaging pattern can get transformed into garment and extracting elements and techniques to be taken forawrd to get 3 dimensional forms: 0.5

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PACKAGING PATTERN

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repeating expanding stretching

: SPEC SHEET

connecting

INSPIRATION: OXYMORON. Next task was to take an oxymoron that inspires us and help us build the narrative and concept which was then taken forward into a 3-D form.

flowing dreamy mysterious

exciting

surprised

MAGI CAL REALI SM

motion

poetic

intangible

I have always been fascinated by nature and life. So, when i look around I see the oxymoron existing in all usual and monotonous and mundane life and things. like i observed how the fallen leaves from a tree are dead but they still grow old(they decay), how when we see a serene view or a sunset or some piece of art, we experience a silent music and also how clouds looks like calm explosions.

We all can observe this but stll its all unexplained like a mystery and for me this is all MAGIC BUT REAL.

For which i took the lotus’s story as my inspiration. As lotus itself incorporates all the magic i can talk about.

A lotus is a belief, it’s love, it’s poetry and it has it’s stories connecting it to hindu mythology.It is said to be the connection between the creator and the creation.

Lotus life itself is magic, the movement and its relation with water droplets and it’s resistenc to the dirt and gives it it’s significance.

Mythology

lord Vishnu

Pure super natural

lakshmi connection

Rebirth

perfect analogy

Brahma

Saraswati

divine beauty

T EX T URE

self regenarating MOV EMENT

TEXTURE. Lotus petal has a beautiful texture that provides the lotus with its uniqueness “the lotus effect” which makes it the self-cleaning flower. my explorations with paper to create this texture and to understand the texture’s nature and properties and it’s behaviour to get a better idea of what magic does a lotus petal have with the crevices that gives it it’s meaning and uniqueness.

The movement itself is so life like. It closes and opens up with the day and night. I call it home to all the day light, which resides in the locked petals so tight. for me: in the lotus resides the universe.

--inspired by movement of lotus flower.

translating texture into fashion techniques:

folds crushed pleats gatherings twists shirring fluting ruching

DECAY.

pictures dipicting different stages of the flower’s life.

I got intrigued by how all these pictures have different stories to tell of the same flower.

A bloomed flower would represent fresh, new day and life and that same flower when pressed in a book would represent nostalgia and memories.

MOOD BOARD.

Mystery Decay Movement Texture mystical

COLOUR-BOARD.

4RO5 SP

P 87-15 U 1815 U

619 U

676 UP

ITERATIONS.

My main focus was to design for a moving form which justifies the magic and gves that unexpected element to the garment.

PROCESS. drapping fabric on body

to get the head shape

pattern used for making the structure. joining two leaves together to create volume and then stitched them together.

DYED . EXPERIMENTED

Fabrics dyed with the colour story derived from lotu’s life phases.

SPEC SHEET. length of fabric used on top,

drawstring to facilitate the opening shirring done on the neck to make the fabric hold the shape size and no. of leaves used.

total circumference when it’s on rest and when it’s stretched

fabric width taken was 84. technique applied is shiiring

bobin elastic used to make it strechable and adjustable

Spec sheet and details of the garment focusing on movement possibilities.

The opened and unopened petals of the lotus represent various stages in one’s life. Its showcases it’s incredible daily cyc

s ability to retract into the water at night and emerge again from muddy waters, cle of life, death and rebirth.

MOVEMENT. My idea depicting the posibilities and image of my garment in it’s true form.