These bright orange designs are developments of the rough sketches of designs in my research book using the draped shapes from a blanket which a homeless girl had wrapped around her. Tried to make them look layered, elegant and flowing, like Ancient Greek robes, Indian Saris or the outfits worn by Buddhist monks, to link to other cultural contexts.
I decided to colour them all bright orange not only because an orange blanket was my original source of inspiration for these designs but also because I have noticed that I seem to use the colour orange a lot and I wanted to emphasise this. Orange seems to be becoming a bit of a design signature for me, I think I am drawn to it because it is cheerful but also quite unusual. It is also gender neutral, which I think suits the androgynous style of my aesthetic well. The last 3 dresses are developments from my rough design sketches inspired by placing some sketches of homeless people on the body. I used the same basic structure, but added colours and prints that I took from my original sketches. I think these dresses are interesting but I need to think more about how they would be put together as they are all very complex structures. They look very wrapped and layered so I could do some experimenting on the stand with tieing and wrapping fabric to create a structure. It is not intentional but these designs remind me of Comme des Garcons in the way that they greatly distort the shape of the body and are almost ugly and anti-fashion.
However, all of the designs in this 'collection' are a practise of my method of using visual codes as design inspiration. They are too simple, basic and not developed enough to be used as a final outcome. However I found designing this 'collection' a good way of gauging what ideas I liked from my research and wanted to take further and what I thought was weaker and wanted to eliminated.
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