Major project: Further research

Since Charlotte advises me to create garment designs, I started to look at some designers' work. Here is one of the collections from Kawakubo.

'Kawakubo’s nonconformist clothes are the visible expressions of her inner life, a passionate cauldron of ideas, feelings, and intuitions. For Spring 1992, she showed garments that looked like the paper patterns of clothes rather than the actual cloth clothes themselves, and for Spring 1997, she sent out outfits with outrageously bulbous lump-and-bump padding, genuinely stunning (and, in some cases, horrifying) an audience that you’d expect to be unflappable.' (VOGUE, 2019)

I was attracted by textures of her fabric design. She combined 2D and 3D effect, like the clothes in the middle, she used fabric print, but the one on right-hand side is more three dimensional.

Moreover, this designs has flat and repeat patterns, let me associate Kusama Yayoi's pattern design. It may be a good inspiration for my major project. Also, the strong contract between these bright colours also works in my theme.

More examples here.

References: Kawakubo.R. (1942) Comme des Garçons. [online] https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/designer/comme-des-garcons. [viewed] 14/11/19

Kawakubo.R. (1942) [online] https://hypebae.com/2017/4/comme-des-garcons-rei-kawakubo-history.

[viewed] 24/11/19

Yayoi.K. (1929) BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE TALK: YAYOI KUSAMA. [online] https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/talk/british-sign-language-talk-yayoi-kusama. [viewed] 24/11/19

Petrarca.E.(2017) [online] https://www.wmagazine.com/gallery/2017-met-gala-comme-des-garcons-red-carpet-rihanna/all