My final Garment for my Black History Month Project. I really enjoyed learning about the Windrush Generation. I originally wanted to look at this particular story because of the recent news of some of the Windrush generation not being able to come back to their homes in the Uk. This made me feel uncomfortable that a society would let this happen to people, which is why I wanted to express these stories through fashion and textiles. For my outcome I really wanted to focus on identity, because I believe that identity shows a lot about your story and the experiences through marks and wrinkles. I also believe that the main feature of the face can really tell your personality, so by this I wanted to look into a few peoples stories. I wanted to focus more on the detail of the top than the silhouette, however I could of expanded on with different shapes that I haven’t yet tried. This could also be another way of expressing my project then just the detailing. However, I really liked experimenting with the dissolvable muslin for the faces. I felt that by having nothing behind the faces allowed the features to stand out as they hang down. I also really like how the layering of the fabric has created volume which is what I wanted to achieve. I really wanted to achieve the volume effect with the fabrics to show the tradition that you would find in a home, but also, by cutting the fabrics different lengths, to show the unsettled effect that this generation has had to go through. Using the bright and bold colours that I have seen from images of wallpaper and parts of furniture really fascinated me so I wanted to present this by layering them together. I could of developed this further by really expanding on a variety of materials that I wouldn’t normally use, get myself out of my comfort zone and really expand on my uses of materials.
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