Arts Thread

My graduate collection is heavily inspired by instruction manuals, blueprints and plans. By researching into this theme, it has allowed me to develop a collection that explore the functionality of a garment. The concept of this collection is to have garments that can be transformed from being 2-dimensional to a 3-dimensional wearable garment through fastenings by taking the concept from plans and implementing them into garments (viewing a garment as a flat object rather than 3 dimensional much like floor plans do for buildings). This lead me to developing the concept of flat pack garments. I have researched into this theme by taking apart existing garments to develop different ways garments can open out and lay flat. The garments will come with their own instruction manuals on how they can be constructed, deconstructed and worn. This collection was also heavily influenced by air fix kits and how all of the pieces needed to build the final product were set onto grids and popped out, i developed a way to incorporate this into the designs for these garments.