MARIE-ELISE LLAGAS
TRANSIENT TRANSFORMATIVE TRANSITIONAL Pre Collection 2011
Looking at the impact that 'Fast Fashion' is having across the design landscape. I'm fascinated with the pace in which we desire a change in our appearance through dress. Transient,Transformative, Transitional I feel perfectly describes what I'm exploring. I want to peal, layer and transform pieces. It will be transient, transformative, transitional. Pure Fashion. As William Morris once said "nothing useless can be truly beautiful"
MOOD
SHAPE
COLOUR INSPIRATION
MATERIALITY INSPIRATION
MATERIALITY EXPLORATION
00.1 content Iron shavings, petrol, magnet, food colouring 00.2 Fabric, PVC, petrol, food colouring 00.3 Neoprene encased in PVC, petrol, food colouring 00.4 Metal encased in PVC, petrol, food colouring 00.5 Patent leather encased in PVC 00.6 Metal foil encased in PVC
MATERIALITY EXPLORATION
00.1 Food colouring 00.2 Petrol, food colouring 00.3 Food colouring 00.4Vegetable oil, based paint
PRINT EXPLORATION
00.1 Food colouring 00.2 Petrol, food colouring 00.3 Food colouring 00.4Vegetable oil, based paint
Colour story one
SILHOUETTE PLAY
TRANSIENT TRANSFORMATIVE TRANSITIONAL Pre Collection 2011
TRANSIENT TRANSFORMATIVE TRANSITIONAL Pre Collection 2011
TRANSIENT TRANSFORMATIVE TRANSITIONAL Technical Drawings
TRANSIENT TRANSFORMATIVE TRANSITIONAL Pre Collection 2011
REVEAL CONCEAL Collection 2011
REVEAL CONCEAL Collection 2011
Reveal conceal is the concept behind my final master’s collection, which was born through examining the importance of the human silhouette. Exploration of shape in context to the body in contemporary times has always played a strong role in my work. I wanted to strip back and refine my designs to their simplest and most powerful visual forms. By using luxury fabrics versus sportswear materials I aim to push forward the boundaries of fashion creation. I question how we can contemporize un-conventional materials into traditional design-led methods. My exploration of materiality leads to the use of acrylic in the collection, this becoming a key element applied to create blocking, concealing and highlighting areas of the body.
MATERIALITY INSPIRATION
SHAPE
REVEAL CONCEAL Illustrations
GARMENT CONSTRUCTION
Colour story one
Colour story two
REVEAL CONCEAL Collection 2011
REVEAL CONCEAL Collection 2011
Technical Drawings
SHE IS MAGPIE Collection 2010
SHE IS MAGPIE Collection 2010
She is a collector. A hoarder. An opportunist with an insatiable impulse to collect, she gathers material and objects to build her “nest� her look which attract others and draws you in. Like the Magpie itself she has an intensely competitive and social nature. Often seen in a pack or community. Magpies are eclectic and able to draw on a variety of resources to assist them in their pursuits, then exhibiting themselves in all there hunter gatherer beauty for all to see.
MATERIALITY INSPIRATION Surface texture
MATERIALITY EXPLORATION Recycled Fabrics
Using the Magpie mentality most of the fabrics used for this project were either found or recycled below is a jacket I was toiling from curtain blinds.
SILHOUETTE PLAY Transparency
SHE IS MAGPIE Colour story
Just Normal Just Normal A range Aofrange colours for leisure and outdoor
of colours for leisure and outdoor
vegetal with a touch of animal. vegetal with a touch of animal. warm, warm, sensualsensual with thewith palette by the dominated palette dominated by leatherleather and caramel tones both softened by traditional knitwearknitwear and caramel tones both softened by traditional colours.colours. This colour slightly meditative – like looking through through a hazy a hazy Thisiscolour is slightly meditative – like looking glass. glass. A blurring of time. of A quiet A blurring time. mood. A quiet mood.
It is very individual . It is very individual .
A magpie likes to collect to attract to shine. She is an exhibition of all the things she deems of worth and status. Layers of transparencies and depths, tones looking past these layers finding embellished pieces. Shapes that you can hook pieces onto, heavy Metal laden necklaces to the point of excessive worn over flowing garments that are a Mixture of all the embellishment, organzas , leathers and other fabrics infused and created.
SHE IS MAGPIE Collection line up 2010
SHE IS MAGPIE Technical Drawings
“THE HYSTERIC OSCILLATES BETWEEN THE CRITICAL EXPOSURE OF HER DISCONTENT WITH THE IDENTITIES THAT HER CULTURE EITHER OFFERS OR PRESCRIBES HER.”
SEXUAL HYSTERIA AND THE IDEALIZED BODY Collection 2010
Colour story one
Colour story two
SEXUAL HYSTERIA AND THE IDEALIZED BODY Collection 2010
SEXUAL HYSTERIA AND THE IDEALIZED BODY Technical Drawings
SUSTAINABLE FASHION:
I DRIVE A CAR. I HEART PLASTIC. I’M A CONSUMER. MORE IS MORE. I EAT MEAT. I HEART METAL. I CREATE MY RULES. THE RISE OF ANTI-ECOLOGY. THE NEW SUB CULTURE. 2025 IS GOING UNDERGROUND THE RISE OF ANTI-ECOLOGY Collection 2010
MATERIALITY EXPLORATION Leather
MATERIALITY EXPLORATION Metal
SILHOUETTE PLAY
MATERIALITY INSPIRATION
Colour story
THE RISE OF ANTI-ECOLOGY Collection 2010
THE RISE OF ANTI-ECOLOGY Technical drawings
EXPEDITION INTO OWL Collection 2010
SILHOUETTE PLAY
MATERIALITY EXPLORATION
EXPEDITION INTO OWL Silhouette play
EXPEDITION INTO OWL
Colour story one Blurred and unidentified, these colours are a product of imagination and not a little dreaming. Neutral and softly natural with a hint of cool. Even if the shade has cool overtones the touch is soft. We have the idea of nesting in a feather light cocoon. Grey and lavender are the prime influences in this essentially natural palette. It is sophisticated and chic but also with a new style edge. These are creative naturals.
Colour story two
EXPEDITION INTO OWL Technical drawings
EXPEDITION INTO OWL Collection 2010
DISTORTION OF LIGHT Digital draping
DISTORTION OF LIGHT Digital draping
Digital draping is a new form of pattern cutting and body draping that uses light and projections to determine cut, texture, pattern, integration and future silhouette. This process was developed by Nancy Tilbury, Clive van Heerden and their colleagues during the wearable technologies projects at Philips Design in the late 1990s. By using a full-size or handheld projector, the designer places graphical or textural elements (of their choice) onto the body of a fit model, dancer or stand to develop dynamic shape and form.
DISTORTION OF LIGHT