Parsons School of Design, The School of Fashion BFA Fashion DesignFALL 2017, Creative Technical Studio 1

Yula J

Dress 1.Transformational Reconstruction inspired by Shingo SatoDress 2. Laser CuttingDress 3. Pattern Magic inspired by Tomoko NakamichiDress 4. Felt + Yarns experiment inspired by Fashioning Felt, Cooper Hewitt MuseumDress 5. Geometric shapes and the experiments of materiality with wool-felt and yarns

The Dresses

and The Geometric-Felt-Yarn Dress

Dress 1.T

ransformational R

econstruction inspired by Shingo S

ato

The Research of Shingo Sato

The Process

The Outcome

The Process

Dress 2. L

aser Cutting

Research

Flat Line Drawing by Illustrator: Torso

Hand cutting

Flat Line Drawing by Illustrator: Skirt

Laser cutting

The Outcome

Dress 3. P

attern Magic inspired by T

omoko N

akamichi

The Research

Process

The Outcome:Volume

Dress 4. F

elt + Yarns experim

ent inspired by Fashioning F

elt

The Research

The Outcome:Experiments of materiality& hand stitching

The Paragraphe of My Design.

Throughout the experiments of four half-size dresses, I was able to consider the reconstruction of dress design, materiality, and learning sev-

eral machines such as, a laser cutting printer and a felt needle machine. From the experiences of four dresses, eventually, I got inspired to make the geometrically

shaped wool-felt dress with and yarns. 1. Form

I decided to design the geometric dress because of the reconstruction of patterndesign of Shingo Sato and Tomoko Nakamichi. Their pattern designs were unique and

avant-garde, and I liked their unconventional dress design. I wanted to try to make the dress more than usual; therefore, my fifth dress has the circle shape skirt part. I used a compass (a pen with a ribbon) to draw the exact circle shape. I wanted these two circle patterns were fixed its forms as much as they can, so I chose thicker fabric for the part. I designed a Kimono style of sleeves because I wanted to keep curved lines on torso part as well. These curved shoulder lines seemed to be more feminine and simple, and I liked that. The long fabric part is on the neckline to be a draped scarf or a belt, which make the dress more unique and practical.

2. MaterialI used four different colors and thicknesses of felt fabrics for my full-size dress. I was willing to take the risk of choosing various colors of material both felt and yarns. I loved the soft texture the solid colors of felt. Felt is also convenient for use because its hemlines do not need to

be sewed, and I just cut the hemlines. However, two fabrics among my four choices were wool, and I finished them with sticky tapes for fabric. I experimented to attach yarns on

the wool-felt with both the felting needle machine and the hand felting needle. It was a fascinating

experiment.3. Stitching & Zero-waste

Since stitching can be a part of design on felt, I have experiment-ed various stitchings with my home-sewing machine and

hand-stiching. Felt was easy to manipulate when I made the patterns, so I tried to focus on

zero-waste design.

The ResearchDress 5. T

he Geometrically S

haped Wool-F

elt Dress

The Process

The Process

Designed by Yula J

The research images are from Pinterest