Architecture...

Takaaki Kihara

History of Origami

The earliest history of this art form originated during the early seventh century, when this technique was introduced to Japan from China. This technique had a strong impact on Japanese culture; which influenced their architecture and everyday life. It wasn't until the 1600 that origami developed into the technique we know today, which people then created objects from the paper. This lead to it being passed down generation to generation and soon after the art form was named Origami.
This form has been used by many artists and with them doing so they have maintained the important part of Japanese culture and have spread this technique around the world.

Textile designers.....

These are a few origami inspired textile designers...

 

 

These were created by Elena Salmistraro which were inspired by an origami design.
Her work in these images show how she has incorporated the origami chatterbox to create layers and detail on her work.

This was created by Anna o'neill.

These textile samples are Richard Sweeney's, who is a origami-based textile designer.

 

These are some more origami-based textile work.

Origami inspired designers..

These are garments from Roxanne Zamani's Incongruous collection. Her collection is a collaboration of 100% silk and leather, which inspired the name of her collection. When it comes to her garments she makes sure they are wearable sculpture.

These garments are both from Amaya Arzuaga the garment on the left is from her s/s 11 collection which reminds me of the shape of insect wings and the other from her spring 2010 collection; this collection was inspired by the notion of metamorphosis, she also added that each garment in her 2010 collection connotes the transformation of a butterfly.

These are garments from Lianna Sheppard's wearable origami collection.

Garments from Anja Mlakar a/w 11

These pleated garments are from Georgia Hardinge a/w 11 collection. (Which was also showed at LFW.) Her collection was inspired by the construction of the human body.

These garments are from Louise Goldin fall 10-11 collection. These garments relate even more so to my insect research due to the shape and patterns on the garments.

These garments from Malousebastiaan a/w 10-11 collection are very origami-based and relates more to my project due to this.

Kirstie Maclaren

These garments greatly relate to my project through colour as well as the shapes.

Japenese origami

These next pictures is of origami that I researched...

These images were very extreme examples of origami, the the shapes created within each one has made me develop designs and possible shapes for my final piece.

Origami ...

Origami is the Japanese word for paper folding. This technique is well known art form that has been passed down for generations. So Orimorphosis will be taking paper folding to create a change in form and structure.

These are a few photos of origami that I created from paper and card. I found origami hard to create at first, but soon got into it and found there are many shapes that can be created.

Plants, petal structures

This flower reminds me of how some garments can have sink holes to add detail, which has gave me ideas.

I found this photo of a flower very inspiring, because of its unusual structure I think the layers it has could also be interpreted onto a garment to add volume.

This flower resembles origami strongly, because of its shape and the thickness the petals seem to have. I think this shape would be great on a garment if possible.

Metamorphosis extended research...

After more research into metamorphosis I really found the body structure of insects and animals inspiring and plan to develop them more.


With this image I liked how it captured the wings of the ladybird and found the shape could be transferred to a design for a garment. E.g. the ladybirds outer-shell in this shape could make high-rised shoulder detail or hip detail. 

This image I concentrated on the detail to the beetles body detail and found the pattern made could be made into panels on one of my designs.

This fish drew my attention to its spiky form which lead me to inspire to make a spikes on my garment for detail.

The detail on this fish could make pleat detail on a garment; which could then be explored more to make a more origami- looking style.

This photo once again gave me inspiration due to the wings, the view of the wings in this photo could be made into pleat detail and panels.

Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is the process in which the original form changes; this can happen in insects, plants as well as cities.
For animals it takes place after birth in which they change from cell growth etc. Insects undergo a change in texture, physical appearance as well as their form when they turn into an adult.  Amphibians are similar but the process is regulated by thyroxin in the blood, the change in their forms can take within 24 hours.

This is a simple diagram of a insects metamorphosis cycle of an insect.

From my further research on metamorphosis I have found the shape and structure of cells inspiring as well as insects texture and shape.

Plant cell



Animal cell

These are a few images of cells that I found interesting from the shape and structure of the inside. I will be developing this inspiration more.

New brief ....beginning of 2nd year

After finishing my first year at college, we have been given a new brief for the first project of the second year.

The new project is Orimorphosis, which is using the technique Origami and Metamorphosis.The garment will be created using only white fabrics. I believe this project will be quite tricky but all the same really interesting, because of the different folding structures you will be able to create for your garment.

coming soon....

I will be uploading my images of my sportswear project final garment, which is now over and show my inspiration and favourite pages in this project sketchbook....

End of year fashion show

The last couple of weeks at college I have mostly been taking part in the fashion show for foundation and 2nd years, my part was the t-shirt design team which also helps out with production work incase anyone needed help. My little black dress and flotsam final garments was included in the show. I also was chosen to be a model for the show and I had many changes to do and found that I got the hang of how quick the changes had to be straight away. This catwalk was very different from the CAT one, because there was many more people doing the models make-up and hair (which was Androgyny as the theme with smokey eyed and dewy make-up for models and all females hair was pulled back into a low ponytail with a side parting) my make-up was smokey and also the rail management helped with each garment the models had to get on and off. Overall I found it a busy atmosphere but a great experience and I am be interested to this again. Now its just about waiting to see who will be doing the VIP show next week.

great weather......serious tan

soo the weather is GREAT and I have a serious tan ....you  can literally see the out line of my dress on my back :D Feeling a good summer is coming!

College Catwalk for caterpilla

Last week I was a model for a catwalk; which was for the caterpilla tractors. I worked along side others from my course, but also professional models and the 2nd year and foundation fashion students. The experience was crazy and I really got to know what being a model would be like and the pressure in the rehearsals, beacuase I only had one garment to model I got to sit back and see how the others had to cope with two chabges and fast they had to change. It was a really good experience.

 These are a few images of what hair and make- up did, all the models also had cranes in our hair to relate to CAT. The mak-up was kept simple with eye stickers on our faces and just neutral make up.

More images from that night to be uploaded .....

Photo shoot for styling live brief

 These images are only a few images of the photos me and my group did for this live brief for yellow week. We had to take a photo and using graphics as well make it appropiate for Scene magazine. I had to work with other 1st year fashion students like myself and graphic students. I found that our group worked well together and we all got along well together. I am very happy with our end results and enjoyed this yellow week than the other.

This is the final  photo we went with for the front cover. 

Check out the blog we made for this brief: http://theteam9.blogspot.com/