Week 1

 Hi! My name is Elizabeth Ojeda, I am a senior at KCAD. I am excited to be presenting my capstone collection. 

My collection is inspired by my love for fabric manipulation and surface design. I will be including hand done embroidery, beading, and pleating. For this collection I want to focus on textures and the beauty in simplicity. My goal for this collection is to design clothing that makes women feel confident, and classy in a way that highlights their natural beauty.

Here is the beginning of my mood board and a rough draft of silhouettes that I am aiming for. I hope to convey a feeling of class, simplicity and elegance in my designs. I'm thrilled to be sharing my process with all of you! 

Week One - Ophelia

 

I'm Arienne Stoye and I am a senior in the fashion studies program at KCAD

the original idea for my capstone collection was to create a collection inspired by Hamlet's Ophelia, however, I found that my true passion is not necessarily in costume design. I also wanted to work with more knit fabrics than I had originally planned, as knitwear is a medium I enjoy sewing in.  While I'm still keeping the name, the new Ophelia will be more focused on power than sorrow and grief. I aim to embody the divine feminine and the complexity/power of womanhood. I have been extremely interested in the idea of mythology and storytelling and I wanted to include themes of religion and mythology in my collection, as I am moved by the stories that they tell and find a lot of meaning in the tales that have been told over time in order to understand the complexity of humanity and existence. While I do not necessarily find myself to be a spiritual person, I am intrigued by spiritual imagery and the power it has over people whether that be good or bad. I am excited to revise my collection and create some new designs that better reflect my artistic vision and sewing abilities. I started out by creating a new mood board for the collection and I am ready to move forward with illustrations. 

of course, I am also inspired by music, so I started to create a playlist that embodies the theme of the collection for some added inspiration. 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/221WE5BoMSHGWWgZKPKnUQ?si=7047cad3c63b41ef

 I'll end the post with this passage from Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, which moved me and inspired me to create this new theme 

BORISCHI - Week 1

 

Week 1- Materials and Cutting

Something I have loved about fashion is learning about sustainability and material studies. I look for function, consciousness, and self realization in my designs. Because of this my brand "Borischi Bridal" and collection "Something Old Something New" focus on reusing gown fabric to make new off-beat bridal designs. There was little method to the disassembly madness, the les recognizable the garment is post surgery the better for the purpose of the final outlook.

- Mali Jean