La Fantaisie: Final Garment, Conceptual Photo

There are stress, pain and many other unpleasant elements in reality, thus sometimes people want to escape from reality. Many people have fantasy because they create their own satisfying world by doing so. I created the fitted dress to represent the reality full of pressure, and the freely coming out elements to represent fantastical.

La Fantaisie: Final Garment

Finished altering the pattern of my dress by elongating the sleeves, adding the pointy tip to sleeves, making the neck higher and the dress longer and tighter. Then I was starting to figure out what fabric manipulation I wanted to make. I connected it to the mini assignment I did, which has circular figure.

La Fantaisie: Final Garment-Sketch

For the final garment, Im going to create a long dress, that is similar to the last one, with a head cover to create more of a mysterious feeling. This is just a simple sketch of the basic structure, and Im gonna do more experience on fabric manipulation and add it onto my garment. Also, Part of my garment will be using see-through fabric.

La Fantaisie: The First Garment

For this garment, I elongated the length of the neck and the length of the dress, shorten the length of the sleeves and added more structure to the shoulder, and added many octopus shape like circles over the skirt part. I used fabric manipulation in an exaggerate way that the fabric manipulation actually changed the form of the dress from simple to complex. For my next final garment, I would keep exploring fabric manipulation.

La Fantaisie: Sketches

My idea of the design is fantastical. When I think about the word "fantastical", I see some weird structure and complex looking designs in my head. They look unusual, yet still graceful. 

Richard Martin's article Fashion And Surrealism gave me inspiration, because I got the idea that I want to design something more conceptual.