These designs allowed me to visualise different outcomes and percentage of different tonal colour ways on the Apron. In the end, before deciding on a final design I took my most successful samples and lay them flat to decide on a definite arrangement.
Looking over the Apron brief helped to refine design ideas as I picked two techniques from both the 'necessities' and the 'curiosities' lists. I chose ribbon ties (fastening) - which were made as a rouleux strips and pressed flat, a pocket/bound buttonhole pocket, and a mitred corner. I made a toile to figure out measurements and how long/wide I definitely wanted it to be. The main inspiration for the style of my Apron came from contextual research; All Saints (skirts), they have a signature style for their embellished skirts, just a simple A-line mini skirt with hand embellishments all over. However, I adapted this to my own needs - the 'skirt' style Apron will be backless to allow for adjustments around the waist depending on the wearer and only half of the apron being embroidered and embellished - which was inspired by the attention to composition in the Aprons from Platt Hall, this also helped with the limited time scale.
At the beginning of this week I visited an interior art fair in Paris, Maison et Object. During this project I have mainly focused on 'Locating' my work and so far have refined it down to decorative/embellished fabric surfaces that could be momentarily be taken into fashion. However, this fair has taught me that I can still produce fabric surfaces for interiors just by slightly adapting and changing compositions, pattern and weight of fabrics (even the style of sewing and adapting techniques, eg. hand stitch into machine stitch for more practicality).
Towards the middle of this week I started to make my Apron. I got as far as constructing the base, making the rouleux ties and adding a buttonhole pocket which left me to attach my final patchwork samples.
However, on Thursday I travelled to Florence to Pitti Filati (yarn fair). This also included some trend forecasting, the most inspirational part of this fair for me was the embroidered sample layouts.
This allowed me to visualise what I could do in the future to improve my context, as I would prefer to create and design fabric swatches that can be transferred to other companies and designers that could develop them into a sell able product for Fashion and Interiors. I want to eventually be skillfull enough to be able to instantly adapt my ideas to fit a client brief, using colours successfully with fabric.
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