Name: Rachel Blackburn Student Number: H00163048 Course: E19CP: Commercial Portfolio Academic session: 2015/2016, Semester 2 Heriot -Watt University, School of Textiles and Design
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roduction In this portfolio you will find a collection of work showing the design process and the final outcome of 2 outfits made from my capsule collection. The idea behind this collection came from three pieces of art work that related to nature which helped me realise what concept I wanted to create, this concept being “Nature Changing Through Time” This concept was kept in mind throughout the project to help design a collection of six outfits and to then make two of the outfits. After the two outfits were made they needed to be presented in a professional manner so to do this a location for a photo shoot needed to be decided on. To experiment I first took photos in the “North Wales Hospital” an abandoned mental asylum which is run down and being taken over by nature. I thought that this would be ideal as it linked to the concept and had an urban feel. However I ran out of time to take photos of both outfits at this location so another had to be decided on. So as I wanted to show the concept through these photos I thought it could be interesting to go to “Formby Beach” as it has a forest that is just before the beach making it an ideal location. This location also fitted with the concept so when looking through the photos you will see both locations.
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