Precious project

For this project I had to work from the word 'precious' and find inspiration from a fashion area that to me was 'precious'. When I think of the word precious, bridal comes to mind as it's precious and seen as a one off experience to a bride. I went on to look at unusual and unique wedding dresses, the style of gowns and the techniques used.

 

 

 

I liked the dresses that had laser cut and embroidery on them and decided I would like to try these techniques out myself and see how they would work if I was to use them on my own designs.

 

These are some of my own embroidery, I first tried it on calico and then moved on to dissolvable fabric as I wanted to create a lace effect.

 

 

These are pictures from when I was sampling lazer cut designs for my second year final garment.

 

My final 'Precious' range board above.

 

- Making my second year final garment...

I began by outlining with tape around the mannequin so I had a kind of template to follow for my dress. I then traced my template using calico.

 

 

 

I had to make lots of adjustments and tweaks to pull in my dress as I wanted it to be very fitted!

Here are more images from my pattern cutting process...

 

 

 

 

I didn't take too many pictures of making the actual final dress put here are a few...

 

I had to ruche the bottom fabric to create the ruffled, puffed up effect I wanted.

 

putting the Dress together..

 

 

This lazer cut design was around the bottom of the black section of the dress.

 

 

My embroidery for the front of my dress..

My final dress..