Here are a few of my final trend book pages!!

For my first project this year I had to design a look book inspired by what I thought would shape fashion trends in the near future. I decided to base mine upon new found medicines but used the human skeleton and 'old school' science as visual inspiration. I used knit to convey the colours and textured shapes of the collection. I wanted to make my samples as three dimentional as possible so I chose to experiment with materials such as plaster and even egg whites to create form once the samples were knitted. Here are a few of my favourite samples that I used to create my look book.

Here are my fashion illustraions for my final samples!!!

For my final samples I decided to weave in with wool by using punch cards. I designed my own patterns that were inspired by Welsh cloth and my colour pallet was decided by the natural colour of my own alpacas. I also designed a protoype website explaining the concept of my designs and how the customer can be part of the story. I also decided to create my own tags for the garments, explaining what alpaca their certain garment came from and that it was a 100% natural alpaca wool!Here are my final boards.

For the collection of garments using the alpaca wool I was very inspired by Missoni's autumn/winter 09/10 collection! I love the use of layering and the dynamic effect it has. Im also inspired by the way the knitting has been draped and how contemporary it remains even though its layer upon layer of knit.

For inspiration for my project I researched in to a few other companies that work with the same sort of concept and i found this website very interesting. http://www.thetoftalpacashop.co.uk/ They have their own heard of prize winning alpacas and then have local knitters creating the garments to sell online, with it all being highly environmentally friendly. The garments they produce are high quality extremely delicate and beautiful, and have a strong sense of emotion attached to them. The other appealing thing about them is that they offer family days out to visit the alpacas and also run hand knitting courses!

To work more towards the concept of the project I wanted to think of ways to show the customer the story behind the garment they were buying. I wish to involve them in the story and give them a chance to get to know the alpacas as I know them, by providing names, photos and information about them individually. To do this I did some research into similar companies with same concept as me and here are some I found quite interesting.

http://www.izzylane.com/

I found her collection inspiring as the garments she had produced were very traditional yet looked contemporary. I also thought the natural colour pallet worked well and that the background for the fashion shots made a great look book.