Nikola

Thursday 27th, Photoshoot,

On Monday 24,

I Sewed all three pieces, the two halves of top and the back strip onto the skirt , It was a bit challenging as I had to make sure the front were sewed to create this V shape also My goal was to make the leather top piece lines details to be connecting through he skirt so there's just one straight line coming through.

On Thursday 20th,

I created second half of the top from silk material of the jacket and sew it together.

When observing the skirt , what stood out to me was the fluff from the backside of leather material, as it kept on falling off as a result ,After looking through my left over material, I decided to bring the silk onto the skirt by sewing it underneath.

On Friday, 21,

I've just done few adjustments to the skirt by sewing small leather piece into the corner as the sharp edge stood out to me and I didn't like how it looked. Sewing it on made the line at the front more straighter, which I was happy about.

I also folded one of the sides and sewed it in , because the waist for the skirt was too big and had awkward gap on the side and mostly on the back. The process was bit more slower and time consuming as I tried to sew a straight line on top where it was already made.

On Wednesday 19th,

On Wednesday 19th,

I focused on creating the red skirt. I started off by folding and pinning the edges and sewing it to give a clean look. I tried my best to make the edges to be close as possible and zipper not to be seen. I like the way the skirt is asymmetrical, as a result I focused on making it clean, sharp and not too many things sewn on it to distract it away from the bright red colour.

Next I sewed the zipper onto the borders which took more time then I expected because the folded leather material make it twice as thick.

These are just few things I've managed to create later on the day, which is a flower from silk material by folding and sewing it together.

On Tuesday 18th,

I spoke to Linda and got few good tips on how to sew the zipper onto the garment and different ways to use the garment design for sustainable use.

I decided I wanted to create the red leather skirt but still was unsure of the top. I came up with different designs by pinning the pieces different ways onto a mannequin. As I kept creating various designs, I kept on coming up with different ideas.

On Monday 17th

We had a workshop with Ruth, where we explored different techniques through embroidery and applique. We had to choose a motif or picture design to work on through embroidery. I didn't have any pictures so I experimented on a simple fabric.

Ruth showed us how to do different embroidery stitches like stem stitch, chain and back stitch, which was helpful to know variations of techniques as I only knew one.

On Thursday 30th,

On Tuesday 28th,

I created six looks from inspiration of 2 different outfits, I created on mannequin. I will not be using these but I just sketched few to explore different ideas I had in mind if I had limitless material to work with.

On Monday 27th,

I had stuck 12 looks onto my sketchbook, to have them laid out and organized. I thought of drawing them out but before doing it, Mairead advised me to copy print them black and white to see the details and volumes more clearly.

On 24th March,

On Friday 24th March,

Continuing on from creating few looks by using the red garment I sketched majority of them which I liked the most. But instead of drawing a croque for every single top, I came up with an idea to draw one to save time and print out most all the looks.

The Goal was to use the croque as a model to be able to put all possible looks on top of it and switch around very freely.

On 24th Friday

I deconstructed the red jacket and camo pants, recorded my process in my sketchbook and at same time researched what they are made of, what material and brand they came from/ their origin.

The process took longer then I thought as I realized the jacket is made of three layers, the leather, fluff and synthetic fabric attached together within but also gave me more fabric to work with and created few ideas on how to use them.

On Thursday 23/03/23

I deconstructed the black shirt and sweater, from doing that I quickly realized the garment would be difficult to work with as all of the pieces were overlocked meaning the garment would just fall apart and be challenging to reconstruct at same time both pieces didn't have much fabric to work with, as a result I chose different garments that I found at my house.