As part of the exhibition, I am making a garment to explore the techniques of design development, which is something that I never really had nor learn before and the production of a garment; from pattern cutting, making a toile and sewing it to create the piece.
I started doing an experimentation on design development ideas with Marilyn during the previous workshop week. Basically, I was putting and mixing several already-made garment from home and playing along with it. Twisting some parts of it, turned it upside-down, inside-out, folding it backwards, making different shapes from it and see whether there was an interesting silhouette or shapes from it.
I also started to putting it all together on an image of a body and see how it would fit on a body, play around more with it and basically just finding more and more inspirations and ideas from this little yet reallu useful experimentation.
So I ended up with the dress that I have for the exhibition.
In a way, the theme and concepts from this dress is not based on Indonesia, but, in the other hand, it is still part of my Big Idea of what I'm aiming to do during this course; which is to explore in the techniques and materials on producing a garment.
I also played along with different materials for the garment, I used Neoprene as the fabric and added beads and sheer paper fabric as the decoration for this dress. I also learned the different techniques in sewing, whether it's machine or hand-stitching.
This whole experience have broaden my knowledge and I have finally reached one of my goals before coming to this course; which is to learn how to create a garment from scratch.
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