This document provides a project briefing for a fashion design project focused on textile design and materials innovation. The goals of the project are to enable students to quickly generate work, support planning and time management, explore ideas, and develop communication skills. Students are asked to develop textile designs related to fashion that focus on materials innovation and can be applied to areas like high street fashion, health, performance, or protection. Research on the theme is required along with material and process investigations to support viable design conclusions. Advice emphasizes effective planning, testing ideas in workshops, and exploring non-traditional materials and processes.

1. briefing : fashion

4. Unit Code and
Title
BA3a
Project 4 Fashion
Project Leader: Les Bicknell, Nick Rodgers
Tutors: Les Bicknell, Jill Rodgers, Nick Rodgers
Key Dates:
Project Briefing - week 7
Critique (formative feedback) - week 11
Assessment hand in - week 13
N° Weeks Study 6

5. why
Why we have set you this project.
What we hope you will gain by undertaking
this project?

6. The purpose of this short project is
to enable you to .........
• make work quickly
• support your planning and time management
• explore ideas
• work on more than one strand at once
• tell stories - what is your narrative?
• develop communication skills

7. Context
Textile design has a fundamental connection
with the body. This can be the decoration of
the fabrics that make up our garments, the
fabric we sleep in or the fabric we perform in.

8. Context
Sometimes the use of fabric is functional
therefore less decorative but more concerned
with comfort, protection or performance.

9. Context
Do you want your knee to work?

10. Context
More recently there have been advances in
medical textiles so that the textile can become
part of our body and some garments can be
used to monitor our health.

11. Context
How can you stop Bullets?

12. Context
How can you just look fantastic walking down
the street?

13. Context
Do you want to sweat less and smell better?

14. Context
We don’t all want to look the same - do we?

15. Context
Historical and cultural approaches to
transforming the body show that there is a
long history of modifying our shape to suit
current fashions.

16. Context
What influences our tastes and choices today?

17. Brief
Develop a range of textile designs that relate
to the theme of Fashion.
Lucy Orta

18. Brief
You decide how you wish to interpret this
theme but you must ensure that there is a
focus on materials innovation.
Bertjan Pot

19. Brief
You may want to produce textile designs for
high street fashion or explore material
applications for health and well-being or
develop new methods of protection. The
spectrum of approaches is vast.

20. Brief
You need to research your theme and propose
viable conclusions that are supported by
material and process investigations.
Chalayan Hussein

21. Indicative Content
Personal planning
http://www.elinorcarucci.com/

22. Indicative Content
Material manipulation
Wim BothaColors Magazine

23. Indicative Content
Research strategies Andres Serrano

24. Indicative Content
Innovation in technical process
sensate - Tonita AbeytaRobert Stone

25. Advice
Remember that this project runs in parallel
with project 1.
Issey MiyakeLeonardo

26. You need to ensure that you manage your
workload therefore effective planning from
the outset is essential.
Advice

27. Advice
Use the workshops to test ideas and
processes. You may not reach fully resolved
technical conclusions but what you do may
inform further study.

28. Advice
Your designs can be decorative textile designs
(print, weave, etc) for contemporary fashion
or you can create a new context.

29. Advice
Explore material properties and processes
such as bonding, cutting, welding. Don’t just
do what you already know.
Nobuyoshi Araki

30. Advice
You may want to use non textile materials.
Iris van Herpen

31. Some possible starting points
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/body
http://www.booooooom.com/
http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/
http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/investigating-
identity/the-body-in-art
http://www.tate.org.uk/search/the%20body
http://psychologytomorrowmagazine.com/the-body-in-fashion-review-
by-tiago-pinto-ribeiro-and-raquel-barbosa/

32. what is fashion?

34. what is it to have a body?
what is it to cover it?

35. nicki minaj
Rubens
image?
Botticelli Bosch

36. image?

37. what is it to inhabit a body?
what is it to design for it?

38. Ryan Trecartin

39. We are all mediators,
translators.
Jacques Derrida,

40. Marie ChouinardMatt Fraser
body image – LGBT – disability
Laura Bridgeman and the
Drakes

41. There are so many young
women who tip over into
being a facsimile: they don't
really inhabit their lives or
their bodies.
Susie Orbach, Fat is a
feminist issue

42. Leigh Bowery

43. Live art development agency
http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/
http://www.double-exposures.com/double-
task/
The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein
Oreet Ashery
http://spillfestival.com/

44. http://www.nicolacanavan.com/raising-the-skirt.html
Nicola Canavan

45. Heather Cassils
http://heathercassils.com/

46. Franco B Orlan

47. Stelarc
Aimee Mullins
Matthew Barney for
the Cremaster 3

48. Valerie Belin

49. The body is not a thing, it is
a situation: it is our grasp
on the world and our sketch
of our project.
Simone de Beauvoir, The
Second Sex

50. J D Okhai Ojeikere

51. The chief function of the body
is to carry the brain around.
Thomas A. Edison

52. Rebecca Horn

53. Transformers cybernetic stuff

54. Transubstantiation.
To describe the change
from bread and wine to
body and blood of Christ
in the Eucharist

55. Jo Spence
health -
Helen Chadwick

56. skins for Minecraft

57. My body is my art, and
it's also the tool that I
use to make money.
Sasha Grey

58. skins for Second Life

59. Queer theory

60. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7CTo2-bAA8
FKA Twig

61. Guo Fengyi

62. decoration - adornment

63. Body politic

64. decoration - adornment
Eliza Bennett Abas Amin

65. third wave feminist theory

66. http://www.ufunk.net/en/gadgets/culotte-anti-viol/

67. A culture fixated on female thinness
is not an obsession about female
beauty, but an obsession about
female obedience. Dieting is the
most potent political sedative in
women’s history.
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

68. http://thecuttingclass.com/
structure

69. http://cockyeek.com/projects/kuma-kuna/

70. narrative?

71. Arthur Bispo do Rosário

72. Phyllis Galembo Ghana

73. nick cave sound suit
performance?

74. dance

75. costume?

76. You're only young once,
but you can be
immature forever.
Germaine Greer, The
Female Eunuch

77. costume?

78. tradition?

79. sport

80. One is not born, but
rather becomes, a
woman.
Simone de Beauvoir

81. defence

82. defence

83. Aya Tsukioka

84. sleep

85. death

86. From my rotting body,
flowers shall grow and I
am in them and that is
eternity.
Edvard Munch