After researching into trends and other designers and still linking with our theme of Trypophobia, I came up with a few designs that kept it relevant to each section. Through out my trend research I found that the top trends where silk shirts that where baggy and overlarge. Another trend was having knit jumpers like grand style gilet/tanks so I thought that these would be perfect for our Marni Shoot. 
I really like how I have create this board with fabric swatches and images that our related with the trends, however I feel that I should of created more space between each of the images to make it clear what are the main trends, and I have some images overlapping other trends. Then working on the mannequin using both paper manipulation and draping to extract shapes from to use in my final designs. I feel that the draping was successful because it allowed me to explore how I was going to position the jumper over the shirt because I wanted to break the traditional jumper shapes that I saw on many menswear catwalks. However, when trying the paper manipulation I found it hard to extract shapes from as many images of my research just consisted of holes. In addition, it did allow me to experiment with the details such as the shaping of the sleeves on the shirt or the collar. I found that making a shirt was going to be hard so I had to problem solve when I made a toile for the shirt to see if it was successful and it was. Using Calico for the toile I knew it was going to be easier by which I mean sewing, than going on to use a silkier fabric for the final shirt, I found quite tricky when trying to keep the pins in place.
For our final Photoshoot, we wanted to keep the theme of the holes by using crumpets. This added humour to our photoshoot which really worked out well when it came to viewing our outcomes we made patterns and stickers with the crumpets to keep that running theme which captured everyones attention especially on the stickers which is what we wanted to achieve. When showing our work and final piece through a slide show one of our tutors gave us criticism. She said that we presented Marni well and energetic, the photos came out really well, however we needed to change some of the images to different images some from the still life for our Look book. She like the final touches with the stickers, the textiles and the shirt and badges that I made for the menswear. However, one thing that I could of developed when making a shirt again was the concentrate more on the shirt collars as you can see the seam allowance when the collar folds out and also the detail of the stitching to make it straighter in some places on the shirt especially when using a different coloured thread.
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