Nearly there...........

I am at the final stages of making my dress and its come together so well, i am really happy with it :-) Just need to finish off a few bits and pieces and then I'm done. I am going to do a photo shoot tomorrow of the dress for my portfolio! so i have been rummaging for accessories, i found some quirky shoes in penny's for 5e, bargain! Just need to get some bangles etc.
Ill post some photos soon!!

Mood Board, Design and Dress so far........

Here is my design for nokia and moodboard:



This is a climpse of the dress so far........




The dress has wire in it which allows you to change and customise the dress, here are some photos of mock-ups that i did when i was experimenting with the wire.



Original



wire pushed up and curved



wire moved up on one side



wire pulled down



standing up



folded down

pricked fingers

I keep pricking my fingers with pins ooooooooowww, its all part of the hard work, as you can tell I am sewing up the dress at the moment, its going well, except for my poor little fingers ;-) I have run into a few problems along the way but nothing too big to be fixed. The wire has been soldered together, courtesy of my dad! That is next to be put into my dress. I will post new photos soon!!!

I received an email from our mentor Tim Ryan with some great advice on finishing the garment etc which has been very helpful. You can also see an interview with him about the NYFDA by following this link: http://www.rte.ie/fashion/2009/0113/ryant.html and for those of you who may not know him, you can check out some of his fabulous design at http://www.rte.ie/fashion/2009/0114/ryant.html

The fabric has been cut, there's no going back now! i have started to sew the dress and its coming together really well, really looking forward to seeing it all finished.

Pattern and Mock-up

Hooray! I have finished the pattern construction of the dress. I have added a photo of it below, you probably wont be able to make head nor tail of it, but you can get the general idea of how the dress will go from paper to 3-d. 

                                         

The photo below shows a mock version of the bottom half of the dress, just to give you an idea of what the finished dress will look like! I will be adding more photos over the next few days, so keep checking back!