Creation process

Once I had established my creative idea for sustainability and how I could present this in a magazine like editorial photoshoot. I began the process of construction and designing my garments in which I was going to use to style the photoshoot I began by using scissors to slice the Tires in half and cut them into rectangles. I then washed them and treated them to remove all the dirt and grime that they had acquired over the duration of their use. From this point I needed to connect each rubber tube to the other. However this is where it proved difficult, as rubber is a very durable and thick material after several attempts at experimentation with a domestic sewing machines it became apparent that this material needed something more powerful. This is when I went to the fashion and designs studios and asked to be inducted in the use or industrial sewing machines. These machines proved to be much more powerful and fast and this being my first time using a sewing machine in years it took a bit of practice to master. However I used this to construct the entire corset as well as a skirt. The fabrics I found for the fabrics were mere scraps in the fashion design workshops that again I thought I could recycle and implement as a form of sustainability. When creating the skirt to compliment the corset, I followed a similar way of designing it to the designer Yohji yamamoto, using expresses shapes and structure to create a skirt that allowed for fluidity as well as symmetrical shapes.

 

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