Designs

Designs in progress

Useful books

Riccardo Tisci is an inspiration, the younger coutourist in history, he does not create garmentss , Riccardo creates art pieces!!!

a mixture of shapes, materials and textures used to create unusual garments

Inspirational Videos

Looking for sources of inspiration when designing a collection

The power of memories

In case of people that weren't born blind like my nany, its harder to get used to the absence of vision.
So they rely on their memories and what they have learnt, the rely on shapes, textures, memories of colours, tastes.

The power of touch

Textures are a blind's person guide to understanding and recognition by touching and feeling textures and shapes.

Blind people reading

The Braille system is a method that is widely used by people who are visually impaired to read and write, and was the first digital form of writing.
Braille was devised in 1825 by Louis Braille, a blind Frenchman. Each Braille character, or cell, is made up of six dot positions, arranged in a rectangle containing two columns of three dots each. A dot may be raised at any of the six positions to form sixty-four (2⁶) possible subsets, including the arrangement in which no dots are raised. For reference purposes, a particular permutation may be described by naming the positions where dots are raised, the positions being universally numbered 1 to 3, from top to bottom, on the left, and 4 to 6, from top to bottom, on the right. For example, dots 1-3-4 (⠍) would describe a cell with three dots raised, at the top and bottom in the left column and on top of the right column, i.e., the letter m. The lines of horizontal Braille text are separated by a space, much like visible printed text, so that the dots of one line can be differentiated from the Braille text above and below. Punctuation is represented by its own unique set of characters.

Medical view of blindness

These images shows how layers cover the eyes and blocks the vision. The perfect example for my ideas of construction of some of my designs, I want to translate some of these aspects into my designs.

Inspirational Quote

"I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound"
~ Helen Keller

Inspirational Quotes

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see"   ~ Mark Twain

Workshop #2

Workshop #1 Subtraction

After cutting both fabrics , we traces the patterns of the upper part of the bodice

sew both fabrics around as if making a pillow case leaving a side open and cutting the patterns only on one fabric and leave the othes fabric intact.

Link both paterns so it creates a negative space between the patterns, to create armholes

We have placed the dress onto the mannequin in order to understand exactly what we were doing

Front view

Back view

Then we layed it back on the table and trace the circles in four different places on the fabric

andt cut the circles  once again on one of the fabrics only

carefully pining the holes created

after pinning the holes, lock stitch the edges together

trace the patterns, this time of the full bodice, for the lining

after cutting the patterns for the lining , we lined the dress

And this is the final outcome,

and this are everyone's final garments, which were all made using the same process and techniques, but everyone place the circles in different places, and used slightly different fabrics,  which proves to create a wide range of final outcomes and effects. I will definitely use this technique again in the near future.

Footage of me and Erica half way in the process of the making of this garment.