Jacket with Strips

Using a slightly brushed Cotton type black fabric these jackets have stripes that have been turned through as a back across the jacket. Half the strips have the brushed side of the fabric out and the other half use the reverse of the fabric which is a slightly more shiny side giving and interesting contrast between the strap. 

This first jacket has the front looking like a normal jacket and the back consists of just the straps across the back so whatever is being worn underneath the jacket can be seen from the outside. So possibly a nice decorative floral fabric or something similar could be nice underneath...

This next jacket has the straps pulling a larger looser part of the jacket back in with a skewif type of gather being created and the straps have been continued onto the front where they would be just stitched down.

Dyed Cotton Lawn

Keeping with the dying theme, this piece of fine cotton lawn got thrown under the ice dying as well but as you can see it didn't quite get very much of the dye on it so it won't be used for the collection but draping it on the model did come up with an interesting shape which i thought was good and could be used in possible the heavier dyed fabric.. 

Bringing in the crossed straps here represents the trapped by structure part of my concept really well here and i think there is more potential in the straps idea..

Dyed cotton muslin

 This very light thin cotton muslin was dyed as well as the other thicker fabric so these are a few experiments that didn't really turn out into anything wonderful for the collection but I still think this fabric could be used for other purposes. 

I do think this has a very interesting neckline detail tho with a neat little pleat in the middle and wide, out to the shoulder neckline...

Turned Back Collar Jacket

This is a jaquard weave, double sided fabric so both sides can be used and it is solution dyed meaning that the fabric wont fade, so i came up with this simple design of a turned back collar, drapy at the front n half length at the back for a bit of versatility, which could possibly be turned and used on the other side.

I thought that seeing as it was a fairly un-detailed jacket that it would suit being paired with some quite intensely detailed jeans with a lot of seaming and top stitching detail.

Organza and Stretch Suiting Trials

This is some testing out how sheer organza looks and acts over top of a stripy suiting fabric coming from a few of the initial ideas and inspired by Jil Sanders collection..

I think this rendered idea here has some potential but im not quite happy with the sleeves being part of the cape at this stage. Am planning to develop a few more ideas for them.

Ice dying the fabric.

The content of this fabric is mainly cellulose fibres being Viscose, Linen, Jute and small amount of Polyester so I expect it will dye quite well. This is using the ice dying method I used in the first assignment as this creates a very natural spread of colour and create interesting organic shapes.

Below is the ice on top of the fabric with the dye poured on top...

And here is the result.. 

Beautiful splashes of colour and the fabric has still kept a bit of its shine..

  

Possible uses as a scarf..

Maybe a draped long jacket or a slightly fitted jacket?

I think this is way too much of the fabric and it is too intense and too hippy for my collection. Should be used in smaller doses.

It could be used as a small skirt, or maybe take advantage of the interesting frayed edge detail it creates on itself and have a layered feature at the top of a skirt..

Here are the designs that followed this experiment..