Wearable Art

Photographs of my final outcome; wearable art in a Gothic style. To produce this outcome I joint various different materials together to form a neck piece. I took my inspiration from designer Rowan Mersh, who uses a lot of fabric manipulation in his work. Here are some examples;

Here are some photographs of my final outcome;

I started to add tassels of different types of material such as lace and velvet, inspired from Mersh's work.

Close up of front view

Side Shot

Another side shot of woven velvet

Front view of final

Front view of final with tassels

Deconstruction/Reconstruction Workshop.

These are some photographs I took of the garments I deconstructed by picking at the stitches using a stitch picker, I unpicked the lace detail from the top and unpicked the seams on the leggings so I was left with different types and sizes of lace to work with. I used these particular garments and chose to work with lace because I felt that it worked well with my current theme; Gothic.

So after I deconstructed the garments I started to reconstruct them into different fabric manipulation samples using the lace. I added beads and buttons to some of the samples. Overall I am extremely happy with my outcome of this workshop and feel that the samples work well with my Gothic theme. :)