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It’s time to do the mens wear outfit for photoshoot!

I have designed a vest with shirt and pants look the first set of men’s wear, incorporating with the cord tie details from look 2 and using piping trimming for the pants.

Look3- Toile- Jacket-front

There will be using a softer fabric at the side as the panel is flare out, another function for the pocket is to gather the side piece.  The extend…

Friday night, movie night

Here we are in the A Design Film Festival Singapore 2017, on the Friday nights, I have a movie date with my classmate and lecturer at Capital theatre, to watch an intimate portrait of the fashion designer: Dries Van Noten.

  Capital theatre

I was enjoying watch the movie, it brings me get to know Dries Van Noten better.  I am very agree with the word he said in the movie, he wouldn’t call…

However… I had made a mistake before that, the fabric should be painted before it sew finish as a jacket, and now I am challenging to paint it right on the actual jacket.

Champagne mix Gold.    /      Gold paint

I tried the painting on a piece of fabric in different way, one is using pure gold or champagne color, another one is mixing champagne and gold together.  By the effect of the sample, I chose to use champagne as the base and gold as the second layer.

Painting on the actual jacket

Actual Jacket- Painting detail

This is my first time try painting on a garment, luckily, the jacket can be painted with no accident happen, for what is going on next, I will doing more research and development for the paint.

Look 1 – Jacket- Toile

                As you can see from the toile of look one jacket, the idea was using knit for sleeve and woven fabric as bodice, but in case of this is a over size jackets, knit fabric will bringing the sleeve looking saggy.

               After I had a consultation with my lecturers, I decided to change the fabric into the off white woven fabric with texture for bodice and sleeve, the collar, pocket, cuff and belt loops is gold fabric. In order to create the oversize jacket into a slicker looking.  The sleeve need to be fold into three pleats in order to sew with the cuff instead of rib knit.

  Look1 – Actual- Jacket- Front

Look1 – Actual- Jacket- Back

                      For the bottom I design a wrap skirt with two panels of chiffon at the size to match with the pocket,  I had a problem with the finishing of the silk chiffon pieces.  The pattern piece is a shape of a  quarter circle, I followed the grain line to cut the fabric and therefore there is the seam line on bias, it is difficult to handle for finishing.  Unfortunately I couldn’t found any place in Guangzhou can do baby lock for chiffon while I went back in term break.  So I tried few different ways to finish by myself: baby lock, roll hem and home machine roll hem. I chose home  machine roll hem because this is the easier way to handle and lesser stretch the fabric.

Look1- ACTUAL- SKIRT-FRON

Look1 – actual- skirt-back

Look 2 – Toile

In order to save fabric in a better way,  we are doing two toile before we cut the actual fabric.  The second look a a short oversize jacket with detail forcing on the back and a overlong waist belt hanging in front, There is a sleeveless knitted high neck top with fabric manipulation and a slick pants to match with the jacket.

Look 2 – Toile – Front

Look 2 – Toile- Back

                    The…

Look 1 – Toile

After we came back from the Hong Kong trip, the first thing I do is redesign the collection according to my fabric, my color story is decided as gold, brown, black and white color tone.

The whole collection I am designing 5 women’s wear and 3 men’s wear, For the coming November photoshoot, I will be shooting two looks of women and one men.  Therefore, the first look is women’ wear: a jacket with…

Reflection of HK trip

Amazing student from Raffles Singapore!

I have enjoyed the time in Hong Kong, it is one of my best trip with my classmate overall.  However, I do feel this trip was going a little bit rush, we don’t have enough time to have our design, details and color story confirmed, so I was aimless on the first day of sourcing until I found the silk chiffon with brown and gold print, I decided my color story…

We are enjoying the rest of the time in Hong Kong

For this 7 days trip, I managed to finish my fabric purchase in three and a half days, so the rest of the time I can enjoy and have fun in this amazing city.

So on the last two days in Hong Kong, I visit the placa call PMQ that is featuring a lot of young Hong Kong designer.  It is around Central in Hong Kong,  there are a lot of very interesting boutique, not just for fashion but accessories,…

THE WOOLMARK COMPANY WITH AMAZING HONGKONG VIEW

What we have in our mind of wool fabric is always thick and heavy, old fashion looking fabric, but the Woolmark company show us a lot of incredible items that are made of wool,…

Roughly place with treasure

Here we are in HongKong!! The first step we heading to is Sham Shui Po, the place where we going to spend most of our time to.

I have been to HongKong a few times, but for fabric, sourcing is still the first time, even though I am can Cantonese, can speak their local language fluently, I still must do some research about the place before I go.  But we are lucky to have our lecturers with us who…

We are going to HongKong!

On the process of doing research and sketches, we are also planning a trip to HongKong for fabric sourcing!  We are lucky to be the first group of student who takes global experience in art & design, which makes the HongKong trip into a module so that we can have a clearer idea of the trip in order to bring the best effect for the collection as well.

Before the trip, we have a lot to prepare. At…

Death can be bright

Western cultures are always so different between Asian’s, even different countries in Asian have their own way to see death.

In Indonesia,  Balinese funeral is a big cremation ceremony, the western tradition, mainly imported through Hollywood movie, but the Balinese Hindu belief: death is not an end or punishment, rather a golden bridge to heaven, to begin a new life in a different, better…