Design Assistant Blog: Part One

For this part of the assignment we had all been assigned a 3rd year student to intern with during the lead up to their final year fashion show. I have been working with two designers, Karen Luong and Jessica Brown, I was working mainly with Karen a weave student but was helping other students in the knit room.

For the first part I was working in the knit room. 

Jessicas collection was vibrant and colourful, the collection was inspired by the Tron movie,  and incorporated British wool, coloured nylon-stuffed Italian yarn and crin, the crin added a futuristic feel to the garments, they look like wires of electricity. She also used Aluminium to make her trousers, the material is used to line the ground of greenhouses. The trousers added a space age feel to the collection, and they could stand up on their own without anyone using them!..

This is the piece I was working on, I worked on the top layer. The was garment crocheted by hand with four layers and a turtle neck. Two layers would fall at the front and two layers at the back.
My job was to sew square pieces of plastic into the gaps in the garment. The pieces had been laser cut and were made from transparent acrylic sheet, with a shiny finish to it.  Jessica was very organised, she had strands of fabric dyed and cut ready for us to use, I then used a needle to feed the strands through the holes and tie in place, after all the pieces had been tied in I had to flip it all over and then sew the loose strands into the garment so that it is neat.

Working in the knit room makes you really appreciate the work that the students do, as you understand how much time and effort goes into each garment.

Back layer with crin

top layer with acrylic square pieces

 

 Some close ups of the knit