As we decided to split into two sub-groups, Resort Day wear and Resort Evening wear, we did all our designing in our sub-groups. As evening wear, we went through our designs looking at both selections of men's wear designs and both sets of women's wear designs. Starting with Katie and Maria's designs, we worked as a group to pick a few designs that they could combine to create two Evening women's wear outfits. Then we moved onto Ian's and My designs, looking at what we liked and which outfits we could combine to again, create two menswear outfits.

Once we had decided on our designs, we then set a deadline to for the over the next couple of days, to create variations with the chosen designs.   

I decided to create the brand and customer boards for our group, looking into who the brand is and who would be there customers.

The brand board I created, was a mixture of previous Coast S/S campaigns, to get an idea of the colours and prints they have already used. I think this helped myself and my group to get a feel of who Coast are as a women's-wear brand, and a possible children's and menswear brand.

Today we had a look at how everyone was getting on with trying to create beginnings of our print. We all went away and began with either painting, using digital print or any type of media that we worked well with. It was great to see what everyone had produced already! As a group we went over everyone's designs, looking at the colours and style used in each. We then selected some designs that we liked the most; these prints were the ones that stuck to our colour palette and concept the most. From there, those who had created the selected prints, are to go away and adapt them a little more. We talked about possibly trying to combine other prints that weren't in the main selection, with the ones that were in the main selection. This is a great way of combining everyone's efforts as a group.

I struggled with trying to create something a little different during my initial designs. After watching the Dries Van Noten documentry, I then tried to design again in a different way to my usual routine. I began by photocopying my research images in my sketchbook to give me the materials to collage. 

I started to tare up the images and start creating shapes that can lead to designs. This different method of designing really helped me to create new exciting designs and I enjoyed this way of creating designs a lot more than my usual way. This is definitely a method of designing that I will take forward in the future.

During this Pattern cutting workshop, we learnt how to create a caped sleeve, which helped to inform a new creative cutting idea. This workshop was very insightful as my lecturer demonstrated to us, that there are various different ways to use a basic block. We used the ladies basic bodice block to recreate the caped sleeve on these mini mannequins. 

The process was quite straightforward once we were shown how to achieve the pattern pieces. As myself and my class, were working on half scale mannequins for the exercise, the pattern pieces were a lot smaller, so it made it easier to manage and edit the blocks.
As a menswear designer, this is something I will definitely consider for future pattern cutting, as menswear can be quite minimalist, so editing the blocks in a way like this, can create some new and very interesting shapes.

Today I had a session with Carl (a guest lecturer), who taught us how to use the draper studio on the Kaledo software. To start the process using the Draper studio, we each had import a old toile photo which would be used as a base to import print and colour onto. 

The process to import print and colour onto the software was quite easy and once Carl had explained how we go about it on our images. The first step was to single out each section of the garments. Starting with the sleeve, drawing around the outline, editing along the way to make sure the outline was as accurate as possible. I had to make sure to close the shape after I'd finished drawing the outline, as the draper studio would not work on a section which has not been closed.

We ran into a few complications on the meeting today. Not everyone turned up on time, which pushed us back a bit in the development of our work. Those of us that were in during the morning, put a colour palette together from a selection of images that we liked. Keeping in mind the colours we picked out from our impressionism paintings in our meeting with COAST. 

The colours we put together in this first colour palette were a mixture of a lilac purple, an olive green, a yellow/white, an electric blue, with some dark blue tones running through and a pink/ coral red. 

From these colours, we then went forward looking into our concept in more detail, trying to find print, colour and silhouette to inform a more sophisticated colour palette. 

I looked into different classic impressionist artists to further the initial research. These artists included; Claude Monet, Van Gogh and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. To further my research into this style of art, I decided to look into Modern Impressionism artists, such as Leonid Afremov and Erin Hanson.