I am interested in knitting for the future. Consequently, textile is the top choice course I am applying to. Therefore, my final outcome will focus on textiles and my final outcome will be making ten samples, and also some different ones to present. For example, make a cake beanie. The reason why I want to make these kinds of samples is that I want to make a difference in the least time and I want to make better quality samples and learn from this time while making the samples. Moreover, I also want to design many garments and choose six to be my final lineup.
I want to design for a brand called Viktor and Rolf. The reason I want to choose this brand is that I think my design style is suitable for Viktor and Rolf. Their style of design looks chunky and I feel like having a second childhood while looking at their design. It is also suitable for my concept. I want people who know the history of Marie Antoinette to feel happy when they look at my design. However, it is not a good ending and not a pleasant story, I still want people to look at it in a joyful way.
My topic will focus on the issue of disparity between rich and poor at that time and use the saying from Marie Antoinette. She said to let them eat cake. I will start with research about what kind of experience Marie Antoinette had during her life at that time and also research about the rococo period because I can know why she want to say it. However, I have done a lot of research about her life and the rococo period, I think I need to look at some movies from that time and visit some artworks from that period. Thus, I went to visit the Wallace Collection in London. The swing is in this collection. Before I saw these real paintings, I always saw them in textbooks or on the internet. Although I know the rococo period is famous for its light colour, I did not see it in person. Furthermore, I felt like I know more about her real-life after watching this movie. The painting also gave me a lot of inspiration for colours and styles. I think these types of research are extremely useful.
I think I demonstrate and improve a lot. In the beginning, I didn’t know how to do deep research for the last term. However, I think there are still a lot of things I can improve, like doing more research about its history, using more different special materials to do my research, and drawing more. Consequently, I decided to draw more and do more research on history. Additionally, I also improve a lot on doing samples because I make different types of samples and my colours are similar. For the first time, I used too many colours to do the samples. Thus, this time I followed my colour story to do my samples. The last time the teacher gave me feedback they suggested that I can use special or different material, so I added fake whipped cream on samples. In addition. I think I improved a lot of things and also demonstrated better than last time.
For my plan and time management, I also will refer to what the teachers said on ppt and also discuss my artwork with classmates. Therefore, I will know what progress I should make. The first time I discuss my artwork with the teacher, he suggest that I can go to the bakery shop to take pictures, and I can observe the real cakes and bread. It is very helpful because I think internet pictures and real objects are a lot different. Moreover, this suggestion is really helpful to my garments’ structure.
I think I need to implement my plan. I am a textile student, so I need to focus on samples. In addition, I will distribute more time for textile sample making. when people look at my work, they will easily understand that I am going to the textile pathway.