Monday, 25 February 2013

Final major - fabric

I have visited fabric stores and flicked through websites for a while now hoping that something would leap out at me shouting couture budget  and it has been painful to say tbe least.
I visited a fabric shop on line that supplied cheap muslin. So I purchase some for sampling. Once it arrive I tested starch on it to see how it would work on the muslin. The results were pretty good and I though excellent, I have my fabric however after watching the the first episode of Signe Lagerfeld and learning that couture toiles are made of muslin tbe put my off using a toiling fabric for my collection. I want budget fabrics wih coutue designs made in a way that could be mass produced. Street Couture.
I liked the idea of using jersey/t-shirt fabric, a fabric that is more than often used by high street and perhaps tbought of as cheap. If I used fabric often used by high street and gave it a coutue makeover then I could get the look I am after. So I bought some £1.80 per metre white jersey.
Looking back through my sketchbook I liked tbe look of the scaffolding and weaving styles. I have played around with an old tshirt and I think my results could work within my design development.
Things to do - Design develop around jersey and the above technique

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