With a second-hand tailored jacket as a starting
point, I unpicked most of the seams to reveal the panels and shapes that I was
left to work with. I began arranging them in various positions - upside down,
diagonally and upright to use the jacket's decorative detail differently.
I was
pinning the jacket panels to the stand, raising material at the shoulders and
hips to make it sculptured. After realising that by working straight on to the
stand I was restricting my work to the shape of the mannequin, I started to
work 2-dimensionally.
I
experimented by pinning curved edges of the fabric to straight edges producing
3-dimensional shapes that looked far more interesting than what I was making
before. I introduced a cut up second-hand shirt too. Draping shapes over the
stand that I had pinned together off the stand created interesting design ideas
that I could later flip, rotate or mirror to produce a final garment.
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