From Sketch to Reality- Wedding Dresses from Toilet Paper

    In the first week of my Fashion Design and Textile art Myself and one other collaborated together to make a avant garde body suit/ dress. Together we designed a dress that combined Lady Gaga's style with Beyonce's. To describe our dress it had long broad shoulder that stuck out like a 80's blazer. With a deep v neck that stops at the empire waist, form there an elegant bottom body suit would pull the across the body from the use of vertical line. Every wedding dress should have a train so the design had a train that would connect from the shoulders down in to a tuxedo tail.  Which Begun to look so beautiful in the sketch we couldn't wait to get started. As time goes on we as group realized this dress is going to be really hard to make. This is because when making the original design we did not incorporate hte fact that our fabric is toilet paper. At the end of the day i was proud of the work my partner and i had accomplished but we both realized took on a bit more then we could chew. Fortunately our group went from 2 partners to 4 in a matter of four days. Which allowed more hands to help, more ideas, more critique, and a design that worked.

     After my partner and myself got a new group member the three of us looked to find out what we wanted and what would make this dress look more like a weeding gown and not for a Golden Globe awards' gown. Together we thought taking off the shoulder pads, long tuxedo train and the deep v would allow the dress to look more elegant instead of avant garde. Within those few minutes of redesigning our dress i learned  that line placement and design play a huge role in the outcome of a garment. In particular  i learned that line gives direction to a design and break larger areas in to smaller ones. Lines also create movement, carrying the eyes across, down, up, etc. there are also many forms of line like vertical, horizontal, diagonal ,and curved. All of which i knew prior to this lab but did not know it played a huge part in fashion, i my elf will not look at fashion the same.with that being said as a group we created an optical illusion that allowed the eye to make whom ever wear this seem taller. this is because of line. line also allowed us to make our garment move the eye to make the hips seem larger. Overall with the help of brainstorming and knowledge of line our group made huge progress with our design.

     At the very last day in other person was added to our group, personally it was great to have the extra opinion and hands. unfortunately we did not get the chance to agree on the dress. the critiquing process was a great way to deliberate the individuals work effort and the groups ability to work together, with that being said it was much harder for my group to work for we started with only two people everyone else had 4. Not to complain but to make our work seem even more spectacular as wee had to work twice as hard to get our outcome. Our Group Mistakes such as designs and in ability to make a team decision, our accomplishments on finishing our dress and dedicated team effort made and beaked us. Thankfully we as a group made the dress on paper a reality.