The return of THE ZIPPER!

Some of the bags I am in the middle of making are having extra special zips.
Above is a picture of some zips in the mid dying process. They have been dip dyed, bleached, washed and tye dyed.

About a billion years ago I was zipper obsessed and manged to get nominated for the Up and Coming designer of the year competition, North West at the Triangle in Manchester. All the outfits were made from zips.
The zipper outfits also appeared in a few photoshoots which you can see here and here.

I must be going back to my zipper routes!

Photo Shoot - Collectively

Recycled dress (above)















I never got round to putting up more pics from this day so here we are.

I put a few of the main dress up here but here is the rest.

This shoot is collectively the work of a photographer, model, make up artist, hair stylist, jewellery designer and print designer.

The shoot has pieces from my 'upcoming designer of the year' collection 2010, the zipper collection 2009 and even a few dresses that were made from recycled camisole tops rescued from a department store (before they got chucked in the bin!)

Photography - Robert Kicka

Labels, branding . . .ZIPPER!

To go with the zipper garments I created a few tags, to help label each piece before it got marked and also to establish a bit of brand identity. It's not what I'm going to stick with but it was good to play around with the images I'd accumulated over the project. I used photo shop to distort images and incorporate some of the little doodles from my sketch book.

I'm doing much blog surfing this week to get together a few ideas for the summer project. Looking forwards to snooping through everyones latest posts!

xxx

7 concepts - Fashion Illustration

These are the final 7 illustrations that depict the style of the zips and they are overlaying the zipper samples that are all different colours and tones. So each outfit would be using a different zipper colour concept. I hope i've not totally brainwashed everyone with zips!!!! When i go shopping my eyes are now automaticly drawn to anything with zips or zip detailing! It's taking over my life! it's funny because before this project i wasn't overly bothered about zips but i love them now, it's so easy to get sooooo drawn into a project.

Zipper Love Updated

New Project at uni alert!

 Here is a bit of fashion waffle:

To get an understanding of the colour palette I intended to work with I covered my bedroom wall with paper and dripped wishy washy inks down white card. I loved the outcome of the dark metalic gold. I'm still not too sure what colour palette to go with because since i've begun to bleach the navy blue zips i'm loving the totally random colours it's turned the zips. This is the beginings of a garment that i've put onto manny the mannaquin for now.