"Design Development & Portfolio" is a compulsory module that looks at improving our design skills with regards to fashion, in the hope of creating a respectable portfolio that we can show to potential employers.
For semester one, we were split into groups of four and handed a brief that outlined what would be required of us. Following this, four designers were assigned at random to the groups within the room: Comme des Garcons, Maison Martin Margiela, Rick Owens and Yohji Yamamoto.
With the nature of these designers being a lot more conceptual than the high-street retailers we had previously worked on, we were all excited to get started. The group I was a part of was assigned Yohji Yamamoto who, over six weeks, would be the focus of all our research.
My knowledge of Yamamoto was very limited, I was only aware of his "Y-3" collaborations with adidas however, as we began the project, my eyes were opened completely to a designer who's name truly rings out yet suffered much negativity from the fashion world when he first brought his oriental/western style to Paris in the 80's.
The layout of our project consisted of a series of research pages, followed by customer profile boards. After which we split and carried on individual work comprised of drawing of potential designs, a technical spec sheet and finally a finished collection.
The images below represent a few pages of this project all in the style of Yohji Yamamoto:
The layout of our project consisted of a series of research pages, followed by customer profile boards. After which we split and carried on individual work comprised of drawing of potential designs, a technical spec sheet and finally a finished collection.
The images below represent a few pages of this project all in the style of Yohji Yamamoto:
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