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Concerns: progress documentation and fabrication analysis highlighting key steps from selected works, displaying previous creations and expanding the blog into social media.
 

Wave Gotik Treffen 2011 Outfit Roundup

Wave Gothic Treffen 2011 Outfits

Only days before the festival, when packing up becomes imminent and the work needs to end, a short recap is in place, recollecting the grander scheme of the outfits spanning the following cross-genre looks.

Thursday Primary: Elegant Gothic
Thursday Secondary: Harajuku Gothic
Friday Primary: Classic Gothic
Friday Secondary: Chique Gothic
Saturday Primary: Grotesque Gothic
Saturday Secondary: Androgynous Gothic
Monday Primary: Fantasy Mittelalter
Monday Secondary: Cyber Mittelalter

To adress the subject of Sunday’s outfits; they will primarily comprise of acquired pieces, either specifically purchased from renowned artists within the scene (some even visiting WGT themselves) or obtained from more general stores to be enhanced or modified, in correlation with some smaller of my original pieces  bringing the outfits to the level of my own designs.

Adding Trim

Adding feather trim

Secure-sewing noir ostrich-feather trim within its designated niches onto saturday’s accessories.

The Slanted Jacket

The Slanted Jacket, opened, frontThe Slanted Jacket, closed, back

A bias-cut bolero-jacket, exhibiting a rounded coupe devoid of side-seams, literally constructed around its own prototype, giving the fabrication that weighty pelt-like firmness, finished with inset coil-zips backing front and mid-sleeve closures.

Proceedings: sketchpatterns – prototypefabricfacing – lining

Cutting Fabric

Saving Fabric

Investigating how to optimally exploit leftover fabrics for making saturday’s accessories, yet saving enough for possible adaptions.

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