Giles Deacon display

In the main reception at college all of our Giles Deacon dresses are on display with the photo shoot images! It all looks really good together and we have all done a great job! The competition winner is announced on Monday so fingers crossed one of us wins.

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Giles Deacon concept

Since making one of Giles' dresses I have been interested in looking at his work which has linked perfectly with the researching designers task. His latest A/W 13 collection was inspired by Black Adder, yes my exact reaction what on earth is Black Adder???

Well heres your answer, Black Adder is an old BBC 1 sitcom which each series was based in a different time periods. Looking through Deacons collection you can really see this inspiration coming through as theres lots of over sized puff sleeves, tight bodices and flowing silk dresses which show different eras of fashion.  

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Giles Deacon Photo shoot 2

Here are some of the images from my photo shoot yesterday, I have started to edit them and narrow down the ones I want to use for the competition and my portfolio....

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Giles Deacon shoot

Disaster Disaster!

Well after slaving away getting my dress finished in time for my shoot today I faced a massive problem which set me back about a million times. I stupidly never checked the heat of my iron at homw when going to do the hems and melted the fabric! So my relation with the iron is no 0 and I have no self confidence with it at all. So this morning as soon as I got to college I got straight onto it and re patterned that piece, and I managed to fix it and do all the hems in time. So by now the disaster was over and I got cracking on the make up and hair for my model, I decided I wanted really natural hair and natural makeup just with a bright lip to give it a pop.

My model, Jen in my dress

 Which socks to choose

Make up look- bright pink lipstick

A few snaps from the shoot! Ive got more to go up tomorrow then I will reveal the final images when I decide to use to you all soon.

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Pattern cutting- 9

ITS FINISHED!!! 
Well kind of all I have left to do is the hems and rejig the hock and eye. Im really pleased with the outcome of this dress as it was a challenge as some points. I think with my pattern cutting I need to try and to a pattern by myself as I think it will build my confidence and allow me to be more independent. 

So coming up I have a shoot to go along with this dress and Im really looking forward to it! 

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Pattern cutting- 8

The fabric I have chose to the make the Giles Deacon dress is a purple taffeta, Its really pretty in different lights as sometimes it looks purple, pink or even blue! I think it will be great for the photo shoot.

First of all I laid out the pattern pieces on the fabric 

Because the good sides and bad sides of the fabric weren't obvious I have to make the wrong side visible with tailors chalk 

Adding in the dart. There is a really small tricky one which is above the seam allowance at the bottom of the pattern peice and you cant go over the edge which really took some patience to do

Over locking of the two sides  

Then attaching the two sides with a 1cm seam allowance

We then had to carry out the task of adding in the bodice panels, which really confused me at times and I really had to concentrate and think about! Once I have done this task I few times Im sure it will come to me a lot more naturaly 

Over locking all the raw edges after the bodice was complete

Once the garment was constructed up to this stage it needed to e pressed on the iron making sure all the edges were pressed in the right places

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Pattern cutting- 7

Giles Deacon A/W 2007- The Troubadour 

 
The pattern

Today we finished off our 60's style dress (thank god) and have been given a new live brief- what is a live brief? I had no idea before hand as well, and basically its a brief that is online and its competition! 

The brief is a dress pattern that Giles Deacon the British fashion designer has put online on Showstudios.com for you to download and create your own version of his garment that he used in 2007 for his A/W collection. You can adapt the pattern to how you want it and you can use whatever fabrics take your fancy and you can be as innovative as possible. Once you have manufactured the dress you then have to then publish it online and wait to see who's the winner! Giles and his team will pick a garment to then feature in an exclusive fashion film!!!!

So today consisted off printing out all the information for this brief and sticking the pattern pieces together and cutting them out. So now Im ready to go and buy some fabric, but I really cant decided what colour or fabric I want to go for (hmmm). Anyway I best hurry up and decide as we only have 2 WEEKS to make this garment.. I MEAN 2 WEEKS!! As after the 2 weeks are up we are then going to photograph and shoot/style the garment ready to be published online and entered into the live brief.

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