Paper Garments

To create these garments to put on the mannequins, we chose our favourite piece of art, and by using a view finder, we created 3D models of that particular area of the painting. I chose Paul Virilio's Bunker Archeology, therefore my 3D model was very cubic and structural. Once we had experimented making different models, we chose our favourite and created 10 of the same model on a larger scale. I simplified my model each time as it was very difficult to make and therefore very time consuming to make 10 of them.  There was a wide selection of models throughout the class which meant each mannequin would look completely different, giving a variety of different ideas. We went around the class in pairs, dressing the mannequins with other peoples models, and other people did this with our models on our mannequins. Each pair left 4 words to describe their models, this acted as almost instructions on how we would create the designs. It was interesting to see what other people had come up with and how we chose to place the models differently to other people in a way which we thought looked nice. It was also interesting to see how other people had arranged our models on our mannequin and how this differed from how we did, it shows how peoples minds think differently, and inspired us further as it gave us more ideas on how we could improve our original design, using other peoples inputs. The models below had words such as 'bright' and 'dark'. We interpreted this as psychologically dark as there seems to be fire on the 3D model. We thought this acted as a good skirt.

On this (to the right) mannequin, we wanted to make the design very bold and expressive, we did this by projecting these tentacle-like pieces outwards from the centre of the body, creating an exciting and bold composition.

The instructional words for this piece included 'innocent', therefore we thought we could use the long strips of paper to create wings at the back and a modest neck piece to make the mannequin appear more angelic and innocent. 

To the right: this is what a pair interpreted our models and words (the words included 'bleak'). They have used one of the cubic models as a mask, which I found very interesting and I wouldn't have thought of this myself, and I became inspired and interested by the idea of someones identity being taken away as their face becomes more robotic looking.

This is another selection of models which we interpreted in our way. One of the pieces reminded us of a spinal chord so we decided to use this at the back of the dress for a more structural appearance.

On this piece, the models were very different to each other, so we felt we had to incorporate them both in a way that would allow them to compliment each other. We used the large folded pieces of paper as a statement skirt, and the smaller, more delicate flowers as a floral bralet which covered one shoulder completely.

To the right is our final design for our own models. We used the curled strips of paper for a flowing dress which stretched from one shoulder to the knee. At the back, we have used the cubic shapes to create a counterbalancing selection of shapes. The back looks as if it is part of a different dress, which we found interesting.