Wrap/ Unwrap: Initial Design Ideas

To begin my design ideas I created a mind map exploring the things I had been inspired by so far in the project. I thought about how I could explore the key themes, what materials I could use and what kind of garment I could create. This was a useful process as I started to piece together smaller ideas.

I then went on to drawing as I find this the easiest way to form ideas. I started by simply drawing shapes on to figures to see what would work,. I then took the shapes I found most exciting and combined them with ideas I also had for materials. I ended up with six fully formed design ideas which included variations. My favourite designs were possibility one, three and four. I also really liked possibility five but I thought this was too similar to the garment I created in my previous juxtaposition project as it's very geometric. To decide which design to create I thought about which was the most visually exciting then the practicalities of making. I thought my fourth idea where you unzip the dress to reveal a concealed yellow under layer was the most visually exciting, however with my limited sewing experience I didn't think making a garment with many zips would be possible. The easiest garment to create would probably be idea one however I didn't think this was very visually exciting and it's a shape that's done often. I was then left with idea three which would be a challenge to construct but still possible in the time scale. I was very interesting by the textures created with stretched bin bag for the skirt and my knitted bin bag ended up being my favourite sample from the investigation stage. Therefore, I decided to take this idea forward.