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.

Comme Des Garcons, using deconstruct reconstruct techniques

We bought an old mens jacket and unpicked the lining from the material and started to created different garment ideas with the lining and then the actually jacket fabric. It was quite simple to use the lining as it was thin and made really nice ruffled shapes whereas the jacket fabric was a lot thicker so it made more sculptural designs. It was really interesting experiment and it made me think about the ways of draping the fabric to make different ideas.