Workshop 3: From real half-dress to imaginary whole

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Photoshop-edit by me

 EN:  In December I had my 3rd Fashion design workshop. We have no fashion design courses at the university, but we had 3 workshops each about 1 week in 2 semesters (I think it is not so much). Here you can see again what I had done in the first (here is the fashion show the dress was shown at) and second workshop.The third time we had a female Professor, who led the workshop. Somehow it was hard to come to the same opion as she, but nevertheless I was impressed by her knowledge of fashion – all the facts about designer, shows and movie, which were equipped by designers. I found that very interesting. The task which she provided us was this one: We should stitch a ball of 3-4 meters elastic material – without having to create a cut previously (it shouldn’t be done of lamellae (e.g. like a beach ball) or of multiangulars (e.g. like a football), but of quite different geometric shapes. Misttakes (sewn left to right), ripples, darts were desirable in order to achieve interesting effects. Then, the “circle” (hardly anyones looked like one) was held to one half of a mannequin and we kept looking for interesting part to appear. These were then pinned, unwanted parts were cut. On the second day we took a meter of a rough textured material and it should be a complement to the existing dress half and draped around. This should be  benutztbar (not befästigt on slip).