Sunday, 22 April 2012

Artist inspiration - Changing Colour Clothes


Whilst researching into this I came across a designer called Amy Winters who designs for Rainbow Winters. I was really inspired by all of Amy Winters designs and loved the ideas she came up with.

This is one of my favourite designs by Amy Winters. The dress is called 'The Rainforest Dress' and is a water reactive and sun reactive dress. The first picture shows how the dress starts off and the picture underneath shows the end result after the dress has changed. The water reactive ink dissappears revealing the colour underneath the dress whilst the sun reactive ink turns purple. What I particularly like about this piece are the bright vibrant colours.




Squid London is a London based brand designing and creating colour clothing. Whilst researching into the design company I came across some colour changing clothing that I thought would eb relevant to our project.
The coat below is covered in appliques which creates a monochrome effect however when the rain hits the coat it changes colour. What I really like about this piece is the colourful outcome afterwards.

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Above is the coat before, and below is the coat after making contact with the rain.
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Squid London also produced a shower curtain that changes when the water hits it. When the water hits the black and white areas it turns colourful. As the water drys up the shower curtain goes back to being black and white.


Below is a swimsuit that changes due to certain conditions. Its printed with pigments called thermochromatic/photocromatic ink that changes pattern due to conditions. The pattern changes from geometric print to a decorative pattern.





 

Sunday, 15 April 2012

Monitering an Environmental Change

Is wearable technology the future in fashion?
As a group, we are researching into wearable technology and looking at how it can link into the environment. We brainstormed into lots of different ideas from dissolveable fabric to paper dresses however in the end we came up with the idea of designing garnments that change due to environmental changes. These changes could be:
  • Pollution
  • Global Warming
  • Heat
  • Sun light
  • Darkness
  • Rain
  • Noise
  • Weather

We have decided to each focus on one of these environmental changes and make a garnment that shows this change happening.



Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Wild Card


The Wild Card was a task set where we had to go around Manchester taking photos but following a set of rules. We had to take a photo of each of the following:
  • Colourful Litter















  • Double yellow lines
















  •  Aerial view of something relating to your project















  •  Doorway




















  • A sample in a location




















I really enjoyed the Wild card task because its a method of working that i dont usually do therefore it was something new and exciting. I want to use this method again when starting a project or to try and find inspiration.