Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Deconstruction Reconstruction

Deconstruction and reconstruction is the art of taking pre made clothes apart and putting them back together in inventive and abstract ways to create new garments from the old ones. When I first studied the brief my initial idea jumped straight to Faustine Steinmetz who was a huge success at London Fashion Week 2014 and featured clothes purely made from old jeans and other denim items that had been unthreaded and then remade into different garments using techniques such as heat pressing. i think denim is a perfect material for a project like this because it is used for many different types of clothing such as jeans, jackets, skirts and so on... Whereas you don't tend to find fabrics used for eveningwear such as silk and embroidered fabrics that diversely use, especially at a commercial level. 

Another obvious choice to consider as part of my research was Martin Margiela as a lot of his collections feature this process. 

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