Summer School 2015

 During November of 2015, I had the opportunity to do a summer school paper that involved learning about stretch fabrics and how to design patterns for using them in lingerie, swimwear and activewear. This was a four week course which involved me designing, pattern making, and constructing a lingerie set (pictured).

Second semester of 2015

For my second semester project, we had to choose a historical garment from the Museum of Te Papa and contemporise it in terms of either Gender, Modesty, Function or Technology. I chose a beautiful 1890's blue silk wedding dress, which had sections of gold lace on the bodice and sleeves. I decided to contemporise it in terms of Technology and looked into laser cutting.

I used the blue colour from the historical garment and used it in the balloon skirt which mimics the leg of mutton sleeves in the wedding dress. Wanting to incorporate lace somehow, but not being a bit fan of it, I decided to laser cut my own 'lace.' Every second panel in the top has the word 'not lace' laser cut through it many times. 

Once the garments were complete I did the above photoshoot and created a postcard to be sent back to Te Papa (shown below).