Monthly Archives: September 2012 - Page 2

Magnanimous Suit

Posted by on September 16, 2012 No comments

As the couture project of my upcoming workyear, this new design of a knee-length suit jacket with matching trousers is to be a unique piece of men’s apparel, set to be created at the highest of standards. Sporting the Romantic-Gunslinger  look with evident touches of futurism, both pants and coat are fully tailored by angular and sharp-edged seamlines, with diagonal pieces set in between side, breast and back seams, that continue into wide flowing hemlines. The jacket is complimented with rolling lapels that end in a pointed collar, whilst buttons are concealed inside fly-closures to grant trousers, body and sleeves a sleek and streamlined effect.

Gothic Gunslinger Coat sketch design.Gothic Gunslinger Cyber pants design sketch

Including Trim

Posted by on September 14, 2012 2 comments

Adding sensitive trimlines onto rough fabric.The semblance of lines on the new cape is achieved from including long straps of half-bias tape between the fabric pieces, by aligning the tape with the seam allowance – measuring exactly half the tape width – before the seam is sewn, and pressing both ends to the same side to create a layover effect of fabric on trim over fabric. The downside of this approach lies however in the material choice, where the slickness of the polyester-satin tape would make it shift while being attached onto the fabric by machine, and just pinning it already created small unseemly waves in the trim’s structure, all these lines, including the full lengths, were to be sewn on to the fabric by hand.

Photo Shooting

Posted by on September 12, 2012 7 comments

With lack of scheduling on thursday the opportunity to do a photoshoot with Xelorian Arts presented itself, at which we’ve made use of the weather to shoot a high-contrast series, set at Leipzig’s most famous fountain.

Wave Gotik Treffen photoshoot

Frontal Zipper

Posted by on September 10, 2012 1 comment

Invisble zipper with a silk blouse's front.Hidden zipper within a pleated collar.

A rump-long hidden zipper, skillfully installed into the blouse’s front as a hand-sewn bearing between fabric and lining; a single invisible fastener to tailor the waist and continuate the pleat-sequence within the collar.

Opus Cross

Posted by on September 8, 2012 3 comments

Relinquish, Modernistic-Gothic cross 3D model.Content to finally show this long-going 3D-design, that adroitly continues my lines in a solid piece of identification for both the blog and myself; this cross expressing perfect ratios, counting thirds for length to width and measuring sevenths in thickness.

Gothic cross with both straight and rounded endsThe concept commences with the layering of a straight and narrow cross on top of a wider one, with both having their ends cut following the inner triangulates connecting the cross’ mid points within their bounding box; and continues with dilating the under -cross, once for its sections and twice towards the ends, enforcing the piece’s duality by creating a rounded elegance that translates into facetting the plane when venturing into the third dimension, which adds a notion of leggy thinness to this rather robust concept.

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