Project Sportwearrrrrr!!!!!

SS14 was definitely the season of sports on the catwalk. Graced with the circular silhouettes of Chanel's SS14 Couture retake on skate boarding versus the intrusiveness of A.Wang's geometric print for his second line for Balenciaga it was only about time I was able to come up with my own trendy rendition of a classic sport. 
Research was very necessary! This was carried out by taking a trip to west end, sloane street and the Kings road, analysing luxury takes on a particular sport and comparing them to high street interpretations. Overall it was an opportunity to focus on the little features of all kinds of sportswear, from the fastening to fabric types. The information collected was used in three workshops carried out that afternoon. 
In Workshop One I had to create mood boards consisting of the images gathered on my trip plus some images of luxury and high street sportswear ; another mood board focusing on one particular sport ( I chose fencing) and then a final mood board focusing on just one landmark in the UK. ( Almost everyone chose the Gherkin or the London Eye so I decided to use The Eden Project). 

Workshop Two saw me using a small detail of any team of sportswear photographed to create a range of pockets right down to a collection of dresses but it was imperative that I only focused on the silhouette. 

Workshop Three was the most interesting and productive. Becca had us blow up a single line from one of the photographs taken on our excursion which we would then cut out numerous times in different sizes. These strips of cards were then wrapped around the mannequin creating some very interesting lines or seams later when it came to the development of ideas stage. It was very important that we followed the line, allowing it to go wherever the curves of the mannequin would take it. Under no circumstances could I interfere or manipulate the direction of the strip. By doing so, the ideas produced would be too pre-meditated, forced in some sense therefore limiting me in producing a variety of different design ideas.

These are the design ideas generated from the lines created on the mannequins.

Development time.... I began to merge my initial ideas with features of fencing uniform.

1 week later and these are my three final outcome. I was supposed to have six but I didn't like the other three so I haven't included them.