VR180
Filmed using Google’s new VR180 technology, this video forms part of the projects experimentation with new digital technologies, knitting together two single channel videos to create a 3D image.
3D Imaging
Created using 3D imaging software combined with an iPhone camera, this virtual model was created within the museum archive. Utilising emergent technologies as a means of quickly capturing a 3-dimensional visualisation in the archive space. Continue reading “3D Imaging”
Charles James – Work in progress
Halston – Work in progress
Comme des Garçons – Work in progess
Comme des Garçons – Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman’s series Fashion Pictures challenge the industry’s conventions of beauty and grace. Her first such commission, made in 1983, parodies typical fashion photography and features garments from the Comme des Garçons AW1983-84 collection. Continue reading “Comme des Garçons – Cindy Sherman”
Comme des Garçons – AW1983-84 Show
Kyoto Costume Institute mannequins
Charles James – Selected garment
Halston – Research
Halston – Fitting
Charles James – Fitting
Balenciaga – Editorials
Vionnet – Copyright photographs
Research – Fashion drawing at CSM
Madeleine Vionnet
‘When a woman smiles, her dress must smile also’
Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975) was part of a group of creative women who transformed fashion in the early 20th century. That she preferred to identify herself as a dressmaker rather than a designer is a testament to her commitment to the craft. She sought to bring about a cohesion between body and dress, starting her design process on a half-scale mannequin and working with the features of the fabric to value the natural contours of the body. Continue reading “Madeleine Vionnet”
Cristóbal Balenciaga
Designer bio
Charles James
Designer bio
Halston
Designer Bio
Rei Kawakubo / Comme Des Garçons
Designer bio
Comme des Garçons – Editorial Fall 1983
Charles James – Dress detail
Charles James garment interior view.
Balenciaga – Pattern pieces 1965
A black pattern ‘toile’ from Cristóbal Balenciga, February 1965 Continue reading “Balenciaga – Pattern pieces 1965”
Comme des Garçons – Aoyama store
Comme des Garçons store in Aoyama, Tokyo.
Comme des Garçons 1970
Charles James – Pattern making
Bunka mannequins
Mannequins on display at Bunka fashion college in Tokyo.