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Thursday’s Secondary Outfit

Posted by on March 4, 2011 5 comments

Thursday's Secundary Outfit

For the secondary outfit for 2011′s thursday I went with a J-goth, black jeansy look, substantiated by a tailing 3-quarter coat, enhanced with leather accents emphasizing shoulders chest and hemline, whilst returning in the diverging cuffs and hood.
With both a central zipper and a set of draped silver chainlets as a means for closing the coat, the view of the blouse can either be limited to its towering collar or allowed to let its stunning grey silk to peer through, forming a connection of bright contrariety, from the fair hair, to the grey-scaled bindings encovering the narrow cut jeans worn underneath.

The Arch Down Skirt

Posted by on March 2, 2011 4 comments

Arch Down Skirt FrontArch Down Skirt Back

A weighted experiment, wherein heavy suede panels hold the skirt in shape while lightweight ones bestow it an airy vivaciousness.

The Suede Suit Jacket

Posted by on February 14, 2011 7 comments

Suide Jacket FrontSuede Jacket Back

The real breakthrough in this was finding fabric that could be used on both sides.

Primary Vs Secondary

Posted by on February 9, 2011 7 comments

Influenced by the bands playing, events taking place and parts of Leipzig I wish to visit, I associate each day at the Wave Gotik Treffen with a certain mood, theme or style. For each of these notions I work out two concepts. I call these the primary and secondary outfits.

The primary outfits are all about exploring new materials and construction boundaries. They feature mostly ornate and experimental pieces, sometimes leaving wearability a bit behind. As construction can be a bit unpredictable, making them adhere to a certain level of quality can be time and resource consuming, yet, the result is often worth the strain.
The secondary outfits are in no way inferior. Using the methods I applied before, knowing they work, I try to create strong, sleek items that adhere to a more simplistic and perfected design. They generally portray a shorter fashion, focusing on the waist instead of the chest and shoulders like the primary outfits do.
 
Because of this clear distinction, one could perceive the two concept types as ‘fashion lines’. For this reason I categorize blogposts by using tags saying primary or secondary, as well as tags stating the day the pieces will be worn on. Clicking the terms in the Tag cloud (found in the sidebar) bundles the posts in a more organised way, making my endeavor a little more comprehensible.

The Gray Shirt Blouse

Posted by on February 4, 2011 8 comments

or rather a blouse..

Sometimes, the best sketch can come together with the littlest amount of lines.

I knew I wanted to do something like this, and last week I found the perfect fabric for it. The finest light gray – almost aluminum shade – silk; the only roll left of its kind. Splendid, for you see, due to the addition of elasthan fibre to the weft yarn, the fabric was stretchy like jersey. Observing that was when it struck me; the gray shirt should actually be a blouse.

While I allready had the idea of the narrow pointed cuffs and collar, this fabric would enable me to slim down the waist, without having to cut open the pattern in the front. Thus, creating a blouse that can be pulled over the head and which takes on an elegant form, with only a minimal number of seams. Emphasizing that effect, whilst keeping the delicate material from overstretching are the large curved darts, strengthening the garment in the sides, like skeleton-fingers wrapped around the waist.

I was rather surprised how quickly this sketch came together. The forementioned concept copied itself to the sleeves, creating that classical, yet modernistic look I so yearn to accomplish.
Now, let’s just hope it all works out..

 

 

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