So, this is what a fitting for collection looks like:
I work for a week patterning and sewing together toilles, I take it into my design class on Wednesday afternoon. And with the help of my design and construction instructor, we pin, mark, cut apart, and otherwise modify each garment to fit into what is desired by them for my collection.
So we start with this:
(week 1)
Which turned into this wider, baggier version:
(Week 2)
And most recently into this:
(week 3)
Mind you, my instructor is notorious for changing his mind, wanting something different every time… so it’s hard to say what the next step will be. For now, I’m taking our latest fitting and turning the ugly baggy pants into more tailored, controlled baggy pants. We’ll see what happens.
The most difficult part of this is finding the happy medium between my ideas and style and their ideas and style. After this particular fitting, there was talk about many things: scraping my collection all together, re-designing garments to be more modern or more traditional, changing all color/fabric for something different, more interesting fabric stories.
I’ve been torn all week between continuing with this collection or dropping it entirely. Re-designing everything to be extra baggy and oversized like my design instructor wants. Or starting completely over with a whole different collection and direction. We’re still working on it. Nothing is set in stone yet. But the likelihood of what you see in my pre-collection and what I have by the end of this semester being even vaugely the same is very slim.
Needless to say, all of the actions against #Occupy this week have made it really difficult to stay focused on my work. I spend many an hour reading, catching up and staying tuned to the events happening in SF, NY, OO, and the UC campuses. It’s something I care passionately about, and though I can’t be there in person, my thoughts are with this movement much of the time.
Stay tuned….
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