Fashion Illustration
In my Fashion Illustration course, we learned not only how to draw and render clothing on paper, but we also explored Illustrator and Photoshop for creating and designing our own themed collections. We focused on collections with themes including Eco-friendly clothing, Unisex, Haute Couture, and Mass-Production, leaving the design and creativity up to us!
We worked with patterns, light, fabrics, and color to understand how clothes look and fit on an actual human body.
Digital Fashion
As we moved to digital fashion creation, we sketched collections on paper with different assigned themes and then scanned them and rendered them in Photoshop with fabrics, colors, shadows, etc. - something real fashion designers do for collections.
First Collection:
For our first collection, we chose an artist or celebrity that inspires us and created a collection that reflects their style, vibe, price point, and color palette. I chose Lauv, a singer that loves basic denim, tank top, and sweater vibe. I created a mass-market spring collection with this denim, pink, and blue color scheme with patchwork.
Mood Board
Final Collection
Second Collection:
For our second collection, we focused on the biggest day in fashion design: The Met Gala! We were able to choose one of the themes from any past Met Gala, with the addition of a theme of our choice to create a new collection that could be featured at the event with our personal twist and theme added to it. I chose the 2017 Met Gala: Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons Art of the In-Between with the theme of Pride, adding rainbow colors and sayings of self-love and empowerment into each outfit design. For this assignment, we also introduced ‘flats,’ which are flat-drawn versions of the clothing with seams and stitches to be sent to an actual seamstress.
Mood Board
Collection Flats
Final Collection
Third Collection:
For our third collection, we each chose a different designer fashion brand and were tasked to rebrand it as ‘inclusive’ and environmentally friendly, digitally working with more eco-friendly fabrics we learned about like synthetic cotton. I chose to work with Gucci, creating 5 unisex looks, each with a different eco-friendly material while keeping the color scheme and feel of the original brand. We also created flats and a promotional poster for our collection.
Mood Board
Promotional Poster
Collection Flats
Final Collection