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Fashion Design

Prototype

Reflection 

When I was working on my fashion assignment there were two main things that were challenging for me.  The first obstacle I encountered was redesigning traditional clothes. I wanted to alter it in my own taste; however, keeping sense of the culture I chose was very difficult for me. When I was researching, I realized that I can collaborate the modern design and the traditional design, so that is why I designed the high-low skirt. In this way, I could still keep the traditional culture which is represented by flowiness and modern culture represented by the high-low skirt.  Another obstacle I encountered was to recreate embroidered details which can be often seen in the original culture.  I figured that it requires difficult techniques, so I used other fabric for the details.  In this way, it was more  achievable to recreate the similar details.

Reflection

 

This project is I feel the most confident of.  From this project, I learnt that there are so many steps taken by fashion designers to make one cloth which we may be wearing it normally.  There were some challenges I faced.  The biggest challenge was to modify the traditional clothes in my own way.  For me, I wanted to collaborate modern and traditional culture.  However, it was difficult to keep tradition without being too cliche.  In one dress, I could put many elements of Mexican culture, so I think it is important to research and being inspired by the information in designing process.  This will be something I would be doing for my future projects.

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