My garment is finished!

Overall I am pleased with how it turned out.

I did have to make some changes to my design however. For example the skirt panels aren't completely covered in buttons as I had planned because it was too time consuming and also as the fabric I used is quite light it would have been very heavy.

Another change I made was to the pattern of the quilting. I had intended to do even parallel lines from top to bottom on every pattern piece, however I found that this didn't work, and so changed it to have parallel lines but not all from top to bottom, and not all with the same distance between them.

Final Design

Ethical Statement

I had originally planned to use ethically sourced, organic cotton from a local shop called Green Fibres located in Totnes in Devon. However due to the need to dye the white fabric grey using Dylon chemical dye, I thought that this would be contradicting myself and chose instead to support another local business in my hometown called Percy's, by buying the fabric in the shades I needed them in.

www.cryoflesh.com

This jacket I found on Cryoflesh that shows the kind of neckline and sleeves that I was going for in my own garment. I like the shapes because they're a bit unusual and definitely futuristic looking.

Some initial design ideas.

The above picture was from an Alexander McQueen Collection from spring/summer 2010. I thought that it worked well with my garment as the hairstyle shows the style of Giger, whose art inspired my own work, carrying on the sci-fi theme.

These shoes, also designed by Alexander McQueen are based on another of Gigers designs, the Alien from the film "Alien" The silver colour would work well to go with my own garment.

Garment Narrative.

A young woman, early to mid 20's going to a science fiction convention wanting to stand out from the crowd but not necessarily in cos-play costume or too outrageous.

She wants her clothing to be ethically sourced and organic despite the general cyber/ sci-fi mould of being made from plastics, metals and PVC and manufactured.

She wants the colours to be metallic and futuristic and have hard lines and angles to follow the futuristic theme.

I recently found this bracelet whilst surfing Cyberdog.net (A site that sells futuristic, club/cyber wear) I thought that it was beautiful and would look good with my garment as it works well with the colour scheme and the metlic parts fit well with the futuristic style.




This also caught my eye whilst browsing the Cyberdog site.
There wouldn't be much point in pairing it with my garment because of the very high neckline, but if I were to develop the idea into a collection I would definitely use this.










The face piece, also from Cyberdog looks really futuristic and the colours fit into my colour scheme, it would look good with silver face paint to give a robotic look or freaky coloured contct lenses.