Toile production

Throughout my projects, I have completed a number of toile productions in order to produce my final garments. Below are a few images of how I have completed my design ideas. I have created my designs from paper and materials; I also used wire on a few designs.

Fashion Design Practice

This project enabled me to experience the design cycle in relation to current commercial fashion and consequently enabled me to develop my individuality and creativity as well as build on technical and practical skills.

I was expected to identify and research into a current trend story that informed a range of women’s wear and produce a pair of trousers aimed at a specific brand. The brand that I chose was Reiss. The design outcome was a shirt and a pair of trousers which were put through into pattern development and manufacture.

In this section, I have shown the research and development I have produced, a trend board, some of my final collection and then my final design.

Visual Studies

This project gave me the opportunity to utilise a variety of materials and techniques in order to develop, experiment and present a series of fashion drawings with both illustrative and technical content.

I was encouraged to experiment and gain confidence in visual communication. Initially, I was provided with 3 titles: monosyllabic, volumize and contortion and was told I had to pick one. The title that I chose was contortion. Using this title, I developed my research and compiled an A3 folder with all my research ideas. The first part of my book demonstrated all my experimental work using a number of techniques which included water-based mediums, collage/ montage and linear. I then chose one of the techniques and focused my work on refining the style using contortion as my inspiration.

After compiling a book together, I was required to produce 5 A4 professional presentation sheets using Adobe Photoshop and a number of flat drawings to support my fashion illustrations. The sheets within this portfolio section are some of my final pieces work that helps me to portray contorted fashion.

Welcome to my Fashion Design Level 4 blog

This is my Level 4 Fashion Design portfolio and holds three different projects which are Visual Studies, Fashion material and Form and Fashion Design Practice. Each section shows a range of different illustrations, fashion and material research and designs in working process. Each project is completely different with the way it has been presented and displayed and this is good because it shows how I can be experimental with the way I produce work.

By Kieran Rana

Fashion Material and Form

This project was mainly based around material and fashion research. I had to pick four different themes and then combine them to create one final theme. The final theme was expression. From all the research I collected, I had to design 30 ideas based around expression, targeted at the London press.

I then created a final collection and created one of my designs based on my collection. I had to produce a photo shoot and all this work has been shown in this folder.