Shroud

Category: Apparel

This project has continued on from 'What Remains' - A series of thoughts and understandings I wrote during my first degree. I look back on my writing, observations and propositions, now 3 years later I see that I was attempting to and expecting yo find answers. My observations were all components of my personal creative language, a continuous investigation always present within myself and of the world around me. It is through my movement quality, my bodying my specific forms that guide me. In this project I struggled with fear but was able to accept the weight of this continual movement. Everything is always changing and moving and falling apart and coming back together. When I move, sometimes I can travel with it. In this work I explored an environment I spent lots of time growing up in, the Trossachs. I looked at photos I had taken of mist resting over the loch water and moss in the garden and the forest. From here I began to taken colour and texture into the garment. I found a bouncy fleece like wool that behaved similarly to the moss plant and experimented with treating it. I noted its responses to different levels of heat pressing and how it compared to moss when it became heavy and damp or had compressed by being stepped on. The shape of the jacket and trousers are both inspired by my own movement shapes and In this project I used both corestry and tailoring techniques to develop the silhouettes and the bespoke fit.