I felt my final piece worked well, however it was difficult making some of the parts especially the skirt as it was made from an old women's jacket meant that i had to do a lot of hand stitching to hold the folds together. I put a zip in the back so it made it easy to take on and off and i made sure the pleats ended before the zip so it wasn't something you had to put over the head. Overall i am very pleased with my final garment.

I did a photo shoot with my final garment, where i styled the garment and also did hair and make-up to add to the effect of the dress.

The beginning of the skirt i was creating with the deconstruct, reconstruct technique, i wanted it to have a lot of shape to it as the top half is quite fitted so it had an opposing effect.

Once i created my pleats i began experimenting in the way i wanted them to lay on my final garment i wanted to make a neck piece with them. I found that they laid quite flat so underneath i put a layer of wadding to make them stand up more.

The making of my final piece, first i began with the pleating as it takes the most time to create with making the moulds and steaming them with the iron to create the pleats.

Some design ideas for my final piece.

More of her work, which is a really effective piece and is greatly inspired by historical costume.

One of her design ideas.

Millie Cockton a new designer, who is greatly inspired by the theatrical costumes of the past, something that has interested me within looking at pleating and is an idea i would like to develop further.

I created a mood board based on some of my favourite techniques which i am going to use in the design of my final piece.

With the pleating aspect i would like to do a neck piece made from large pieces of pleated fabric, i really like this neck piece by Viktor & Rolf and how it is really layered with more ruffled fabric than pleated but i still think it is really effective.

For my final garment i wanted to incorporate two of the techniques we have been learning in our lessons, the deconstruct reconstruct technique and also the pleating.

Some design ideas based on the calico ideas we created.

On the pleated neck piece we began, I felt it linked with the neck pieces of Queen Elizabeth the first and is definitely something i want to continue further.

I felt some of the different design ideas we created had a similar effect to this Comme Des Garcons piece, how it is tapered in parts on the skirt to give levels of the fabric and it reminded me of some of the work we created.

We then created different design ideas using the top we created and we also used some of the pleating techniques we learnt the week before.

Re made up top from the pattern we created.

Creating the top we made into a pattern piece.

Back of the top with darts.

We created a basic top with darts in place to make it fit to the body so once we had created the top on the mannequin we could convert it into a pattern piece.

A Triangular pleat

Box pleat

We then create our own moulds to create different pleats, this is just a basic 3cm pleat.

Dress also made by Ciment pleating ltd for lady gaga on her monster ball tour

Dress used by Cadburys Flake advert made by Ciment pleating ltd.

More pleating techniques

Different pleating styles done a ciment pleating ltd.

Pleating

Ciment pleating ltd visited us to show how pleating was done in industry, they use cardboard moulds and place the fabric in side and steam it to create the pleats.

Karl Lagerfeld, Dries Van Noten and Hussein Chalayan, all look like deconstructed fashion garments.

Using the jackets from before, we draped them over the chairs to create new design ideas to then put onto the mannequin. It gave the jackets an odd shape and because of cutting the jacket into smaller parts so it didn't look like a jacket anymore. We created many different designs by changing round where the neck and arm holes to give completely different designs.