Fashion Rotation - Day 2

For this lesson we were told to bring in an A4 print of our favourite painting which had to be quite abstract. Therefore I chose this painting by Leonid Afremod because I love the colours, the scenery, the way it has been painted, the context of the painting, the meaning of the painting and much more.

After printing out the painting we were then asking to create a view finder with 3 holes and to line them up with 3 certain points on the painting that you liked. In this instance I lined up the view finder with the bench, the tree and the couple walking.

We were then asked to recreate these parts we outlined using just materials we found in the room. All I could find was paper, cardboard and tape therefore those are the materials I built my 3 objects from.

My first object was a tree which I made my screwing up paper length ways to create a tree bark effect and then taping them together to look like branches.

The next object I produced was the bench. I assembled this object using cardboard and and tape, however with the short amount of time given, the bench wasn't structurally rigid and collapsed.

The final object I created was the small portrait of the couple walking. For this I just got a card board cut out and then stuck two polystyrene balls onto it and then coloured it all in with felt tip.

We were then set the task of creating one of our objects, much bigger and repeating the process up to 10 times. So I chose to recreate the tree 10 times.

We were then asked to use our objects to make some sort of outfit onto a mannequin. Here I created almost shoulder pads made from my trees.

We were then asked to move around the class to other mannequins to do the same again but with other people's objects. These were the results.

Here I took advantage of the folded paper and made it into some sort of front top by covering the chest region of the mannequin.
I then used the almost paper bag like objects as large exaggerated shoulder pads for the mannequin.

Here I took a different approach as the objects given to me were much different before as they were more frilly and less solid. Therefore I was not able to fully cover the mannequin, however I feel if this was meant to be an outfit then it would be more of an accessory piece.

This outfit, I feel, looks the most complete and looks like something you could actually wear. By taking advantage of the large sheets of paper given, I was able to mould and form the paper around the mannequin to create this almost oriental look outfit.

Here, the crumpled up paper was used to create some sort of dress, skirt. I feel is gives a very rustic and abstract look and is effective in catching the consumers eye.

Finally we were told to go back to our original mannequin and make a full outfit out of our original objects. Here is what I produced