Having worked on the placement piece with Julinka we started talking about translating some of the 20s inspired looks that we were seeing on the catwalks during fashion week to a story design sample.
This was the first design where I was being allowed to go off on my own a bit more with what I was doing. The main brief was 1920s art deco style. I went off on my own and started to drawn up some draft ideas of what I thought could work. This took a little bit of time but I was using the same symmetry and swirling styles that we had been seeing on the shows for my main inspiration.
After I did my first draft Julinka spoke me through how there couldn’t really be any large bits that were going off the side and that we should try and keep it so that the whole design can be put onto the front of the garment rather than carrying onto the back. This made a lot of sense but I hadn’t thought about this on my first attempt. So all of this was a real learning experience for me as I was learning little rules like this that they use within embroidery production. I made sure to take mental notes of everything that she was saying to me so that I could take this all into consideration for the next design that I would be doing.
I neatened everything up a little bit and digitalised my design a bit more whilst taking everything that Julinka had said to me into consideration.
Having come to a final design that both me and Julinka were happy with we now had to start to consider other things like technique and colour. As far as the technique I leant on Julinka a bit more as she was the expert in this area.
It turned out that she had an old sample that was a duplicate that we could use for a technique reference for the artiliers. It was this lovely built up sequin pattern.
As far as colour Julinka had a huge collection of samples of fabric etc that were part of her catalogued colour category. The artiliers had all of these colours as well meaning that we could really delved into what we thought looked good together and the artiliers would be able to match these perfectly when creating the design that we were writing up.
Here you can see the write up for the design. It has all of the technique references and also the colour references.
I was really happy an quite proud with how all this ended up turning out. I was also very excited to see the sample come back to the studio!