Knitwear Accessory

   

(Photographs & Accessory piece produced by Myself)

      I have finally been able to construct my accessory piece for an experiment for my Final Major Project (FMP) "Living with Dementia". I must admit that I would have liked to have completed a better shoot but due to short time, I kept it quick and easy with a white background to get more perspective of the details and shape without it being in a really busy background. In addition to this, the photo above I decided to do a minimal layered drawing, which brought me back to when I did the paintings referencing back to Francis Bacon's work. My accessory piece came out rather successfully as it highlighted the majority of the processes I experimented with from my samples, not to mention the gaps, holes and ladders on the knit which refers back to my first mood board which was purely texture, similar to what I have constructed. 

     It is crucial at this point in time that 3-D stand work should be carried out as more quick sketches need to be produced by myself to develop deeper and more effective concept ideas as I am drawing closer to the deadline. Using these photographs, it may be a good idea to use these as inspiration for shape and scale on the stand, but also for my design ideas. Subsequently, the accessory piece was rather minimal and basic from perspective, although I used around 5/6 processes on the knit. Nonetheless, I need to sample further with my knit and I want to see whether I can incorporate my print via weave within the knit to express and show this through in both my designs and final piece(s).

     I was impressive to see  how my headpiece accessory would stay in a stable shape once placed, but it was very hard to get it back into the original shape once disturbed; this referring back to dementia and how their memory has gone. Although, using the creative arts and in my case womenswear design, I want it to be an indication of memory as oppose to being the "lost" memory itself. I would really like to experiment further with this accessory piece and this can be done on the photocopier and perhaps even to photograph it in a more professional manner like I have done with previous accessories and garments. 

      From looking at these photographs, they remind me of a similar style to some of Alexander McQueen's 'Savage Beauty' looks with the distort shapes and positioning. If I could have done anything differently, I would have liked to have perhaps added more details onto the knitted head piece, despite this, there is enough to see from the photographs. I used processes such as honeycomb, ladders, weaving, lace holes and a few others, but they seemed to combine very nicely and eventually got to a stage where I was happy with the outcome. Once the piece was constructed, I had to take it to the sowing machine to attach it together so that it would stay placed around my head as oppose to being loose or falling off. It would have been interesting to have created different accessories such as a bag, neck piece, cuffs and many more, but we will see in due time when my designs begin to develop further to see whether they will involve knit or not.