For the Wales Bonner, industry week project I wanted to focus my research on Zanzibar in the 1913s as that was a big part of her research for her ss19 collection. Using this research to help inspire me, extracting shapes and materials that would have been used at the time, but also looking at Bonners past collections and her style. From my research I found that her style is minimalistic but easy to identify where she got her inspiration from. By using iconic clothing from India and Zanzibar and then modernise it to create her own collect. I really like how my draping turn’t out especially the picture at the bottom, using a blazer which she commonly uses in her latest collection. I really like how I have added another sleeve style to one side of the blazer to carry on the style of the traditional draping that I extracting from my research. However, my second draping I didn’t like how I created a cross over, I wanted to develop the blazer draping, but I don’t believe it was successful when I done it. I could of developed it by maybe using a different material or placing it into a different position on the body. However, I really loved my final lineup designs, I thought that they where clear with the technical designs at the top. However, I could develop my technical drawings further by doing them on illustrator instead of hand drawing.
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