Scott Rennie: October 2011

A/W 2012 Collection Final Line Up & Flat Drawings Line Up

Well it's finally done! The collection has been designed and finalized but changes will still probably occur during the making stage so when the collection is finally made it may look different in some ways to the line up.

It's now time to move on to the toiles! It feels like it has been a long time coming that has finally arrived. Still have the colour and fabric board to do but that wont take that long so will add them on tomorrow's post along with photos of my studio space where I will be giving a presentation to the 1st years on Wednesday.

Mood Board

A/W 2012 Collection Final Line Up (Fronts)

A/W 2012 Collection Final Line Up (Backs)

A/W 2012 Collection Flats Final Line Up (Fronts)

A/W 2012 Collection Flats Final Line Up (Backs)

A/W 2012 Collection Inspirational Designs

The final line up is almost finished! Just two more tops to design on illustrator and the collection is complete and ready to be molded to a models figure to then fully complete the final line up. Should be finished tonight so that can be tomorrow's post!

Today's post is giving you all a glimpse of some of the original inspirational designs I have drawn. My idea was to draw designs inspired by as many of the different research paths that I have went down. This was to give me a wide range of different silhouettes and details happening within the garments. Since my theme is shadows I wanted to create a collection that would alter the look of the bodies form and create unusual shadows (to be captured on the catwalk, photo shoots etc.). Because of this look I wanted to create I did not develop a key silhouette for the whole collection as this would make all the outfits the same shape and therefor they would create the same shadow. So I decided to make a final line up of the theatrical designs and develop the different silhouettes, details and shapes from these designs into a collection that mixed toned down versions of these garments and garments that still keep that theatrical look.

Inspirational Final Line Up

Examples of More Inspirational Designs

Hopefully tomorrow's post will be the fully completed final line up, but that's only if I get it finished tonight so will just have to wait and see.

A/W 2012 Collection Styling & Magazine Front Cover Mockup

As promised it's now after 12am so the new day has come and the next post in the series of my A/W 2012 menswear collection. If your wondering why I'm jumping to styling instead of showing design developments it's because I would rather publish the design developments with the final line up (when it's ready!) to show the thought processes to the final outcome more clearly. From the small taster of my research in the previous post you can probably see that the abominations was a strong theme and so I thought I had to take this further. I initially drew a few designs incorporating aspects of humanoid animals but while designing I began to realise that trying to mix garments with shadow elements and the abomination aspects they started to look O.T.T. So I then made the decision to make the abominations the styling to accompany the collection and base the garments purely around the shadow ideas.

Depending on the "evolving" changes to the collection the styling maybe scrapped if it would make the collection too O.T.T but hopefully not as I think this would give the collection a good look but we will just have to wait and see.

For the magazine front cover mock up I used the abomination styling images I created as they are very strong and make a striking look for a magazine front cover. So if the styling does get scrapped in the collection at least it wont have been a complete waste of time and can be used within the magazine.

Deer Mask

Wolf Mask

Bull Mask

Snake Skin Mask

Zebra Skin Mask

Tiger Skin Mask

Magazine Front Cover Mockup

A/W 2012 Collection: Research

Been trying to get around to doing this since my last post but been far to busy doing work for the collection and the magazine. I have loads to put on here but want to do it in order and start from the beginning so everything just flows better. But found myself a spare couple of minutes in the studio yesterday and today to finally do it.

Anyway here is a couple of pages out of my sketchbook showing some of the different themes I've researched that fall under my main inspiration, that being shadows. I couldn't find my good camera so I had to make do with my rubbish one which adds a green shadow/light screen across the photos that I actually ended up liking and think adds a bit of ambiance to them. Glad I found this out could be use full later on in the year.

Intro Page with Manifesto

Bound in Chains

Chains & Snakes

Insanity is My Reality

Abominations

Shadow Projection Experiment 1

Shadow Projection Experiment 2

Light

Space

Apple of Life (Religion)

Jesus Charcoal Drawing

Mary Charcoal Drawing

There is so much more research in my sketchbook but I'm afraid it would take forever to show you everything so this is just a taster. Tomorrow's post will be styling and the mock up of the magazines front cover!

Shadow People

Here it is! This is what began the inspiration for my 4th year collection. This is the video I made which was the end result for the commercial portfolio class. The research began with optical illusions that can be seen at Camera Obscura. While on a visit there I noticed one of their interactive exhibits, you strike a pose against a wall then push a button on the wall which makes the camera on the other side of the room flash and when you move your shadow is captured on the wall behind you. It's really cool! Anyway I wanted to use this idea for commercial portfolio and started thinking how this illusion can be transferred and interpreted in fashion. So here is the video I made to portray the idea without totally spelling it out.

P.S Now that the research stage is basically over for the collection and we are moving onto finalizing the designs very soon, there will be updates coming soon showing some of my research and the direction I've decided to take the collection in.

Shadow People

Fashion Theory Garment / The Bride-Groom

Well after some trouble uploading pictures straight onto Blogger I've managed to get back on to a roll again by uploading the photos straight onto Picasa. So if anyone else has problems uploading images I suggest to try your account on there. But anyhoo lets get back on topic...

I totally forgot all about this garment until we stared back at uni and had to pick up our work. This garment was another that was designed for a class last year, Fashion Theory. I should mention that we were aloud to be as experimental as we like, hence I went with this idea... For my research I looked into the news topics that were current at the time and came across the story of a woman from Taiwan who was marrying herself due to pressure by society.

Here is a link from the BBC website for the whole story...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2010/11/101108_outlook_taiwan_wedding_married_herself.shtml

This story got me thinking. If she doesn't need a husband? Does she need the traditional wedding dress? I began looking at wedding dresses and groom's tuxedos then that filtered into casual everyday wear. Considering in someways marriage is taken less seriously now a days than it once was say 50 years ago my idea was to merge elements of a wedding dress, tuxedo and casual wear to create a garment that is meant for the huge occasion in some one's life but for it not be taken so seriously. And here it is...