Trends A/W 2011/12

This season has comes with an array of colour and textures. Crayola brights, latex leathers and animal fur all connect creating strong trend to be seen throughout the market.  

" Swinging Sixties"

 "Fantasy Fetish"

 "Teddy Boy"

"Colour Pop"

 "Victoriana"

"Animal Instinct"

Apologies about the terrible photos!

First Impressions

I was really excited when I received this brief as it was the first brief of 2nd year but after the long summer I found it quite difficult to get back into the swing of things. We had to design 8 looks for A/W 2011/12 along with creating illustration boards, mood board, colour board and fabric board. it was a daunting project at first but now that its complete I'm happy to continue on through the year improving with each project I get.

 "The River Runs Uphill" A/W 11/12 Nicola Flynn

Illustration Board 1

  "The River Runs Uphill" A/W 11/12 Nicola Flynn

Illustration Board 2

  "The River Runs Uphill" A/W 11/12 Nicola Flynn

Illustration Board 3

  "The River Runs Uphill" A/W 11/12 Nicola Flynn

Illustration Board 4

  "The River Runs Uphill" A/W 11/12 Nicola Flynn

Colour Board

  "The River Runs Uphill" A/W 11/12 Nicola Flynn

Fabric Board

 "The River Runs Uphill" A/W 11/12 Nicola Flynn
Mood board

Final Design

Sorry about the delay in posting these images. I was going to wait and put up pictures from a photoshoot I'm planning but those plans have fallen apart so unfortunatly these are the best photos of my final garment that I have.

My final design turned out to be a top with giant power shoulders that you can open and close with fasteners. Its made mainly by jersey, ripped and then stuck onto the main structure of the piece. The shoulders were made simply by creating a pattern, cutting the material to that shape and filling with lots of wadding.I hope you like it!

Ranking Project!

This week, for our first week of fashion, we have a research brief to do.

Research Area 1:

Research and develop potential ideas from these five words:
Enclosure
Decay
Tribal
Electric
Memories


Research Area 2:
Investigate and research the following techniques;

Fabric manipulation:
Quilting
Origami
Pleating
Gathering
Twisting
Boning of Fabric

Knit techniques:
Ribs/Moss Stitch/Loop Stitch/Cables/Ladder Stitch
Simple lace
Four needle knitting, Tubular knitting
Five needle knitting, Circular medallion
Shaping, Increasing and Decreasing/Integrated shaping
striping and Intarsia


Let the fun begin....!

Mood board and final collection

More pages from my sketchbook...

My colour story for my designs...

And my final 6 piece collection ( the pictures didn't come out the best so I apologize!)

A few pages from my sketchbook :)

I've been meaning to upload of images of my work but I've been so busy recently I haven't got a chance. Here are a few pages taken from my sketchbook in which I was designing a 6 piece collection which was originally inspired by coral.