Priyanka Parmar

Fashion Design and Realisation student at Leeds College of Art

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Book

When it came to binding the trend book, I chose to get it done professionally. I had 24 pages so it was perfect for what I wanted which was a plain white page on the opposite side to the front cover and back cover. I chose to get it bound like a book with a glued stem. I am really happy with how the book turned out when I collected it from the printers. I then had to add all the fabric swatches, illustration and thread to the colour board, I ended up using some special fabric glue but when it came to glueing the white fabric, it left a horrible mark which I couldn’t remove so for those parts I’m really not happy but for the rest, especially the colour board, I’m pleased with.

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And the same here again too except the silver fabric was so hard to sew into/on. If I was to make any of the garments with silver in them I would have to change the fabric to something stiffer and one that didn’t crease so easy. 

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Tried it with white cotton and two of the bright coloured material, I also matched it with a same colour thread, and again, I did one with a single line of stitch and the other with a few. 

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I also did some samples for the designs. The main idea for these garments were to be as seamless as possible and where all the seams were, to make them part of the design so I tried out some ways to do that. At first I did it with just one line but in the designs that have stitching detail, I would want them to be quite thick and noticeable so I tried another with a few more stitches on top 

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I found some really great fabrics that I would use for my collection if I was ever to make it but when it came to scanning them in so I could use them in my fashion illustration, they look completely different. 

They are all (except 3 that are gold, silver and grey jersey) very light and vibrant colours and shine two different colours depending on the way you look at it but my scanner just couldn’t pick this up and so because of this the illustrations and technical flats didn’t work but that is all I could do to try and get it right and there are fabrics swatches on each design too so that should help 

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Trims/Threads Board

I didn’t feel that doing a trims and threads board would work as well in the overall book as I had chosen from the start to design all the garments to look as if they were seamless, apart from the ones put on for pure decorative reasons, and so I didn’t have an trims just a simple invisible zip and for the threads, if I was to make the garments, all the threads I would use are the ones I stuck onto my colour board page that match all the PANTONE cards that I chosen specifically for the collection. 

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It then came to creating a fashion illustration of one of the outfits and to do this I firstly drew up an outfit I wanted to focus on and once that was done I scanned it in to have a play around on in Adobe Photoshop.  After a while of experimenting with different layouts and styles I decided to stick to just using green blue and grey on the background to match the outfit and luckily it also matched the book perfectly. I used a multiple of brushes to create the background and this final style is the outcome of me just playing around and testing all the different brushes that were available. I also gave the original drawing a good neatening up and gave the model a skin tone as I feel it looks a lot more professional that way.  For the final illustration I thought that it would be nice to have it printed on fabric and so I adjusted the illustration and then printed it onto white cotton to be stuck in the final book. 

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For each outfit I did a little fashion illustration to go along side them so you can get some idea of what the garments would look like on a model. Here is all the illustrations together on a final line-up.

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My technical range plan showing all the garments drawn up on Adobe Illustrator for each outfit.

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When it came to designing I found it quite easy. I wanted to go for the same type of style that I had last year for the CAD project where I focused on glitch art. Lots of decorative seams and stitches across the garments but a lot more panelling and layering of fabrics. I liked the look of an exaggerated hip and loose fitting trousers below.

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When it came to considering colours I knew I wanted to use a mix of vibrant colours that were inspired from my museum visits but also very pale greys and blues. 

To create this colour board I used my own personal collection of PANTONE colour cards to pick out the right colours I wanted and then took my own photos/scans and edited them individually to make them colour match perfectly. 

I also plan to stick a little loop of thread on each different colour that matches each colour too seeing as these are the colours of the threads I would want. I was thinking if the garment was more pale then I would use vibrant threads and if the garment had a lot of vibrant colours I’d use pale threads.  

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When I was in Paris I went to Premier Vision for some trim and fabric inspiration, I didn’t find many trims or threads that I liked or would consider to use but I did find these fabrics that I might consider using for the final collection.

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My research and references board for the fashion forecast

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My reference and research page for my non-fashion related trend boards. 

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My last fashion board about augmented reality and virtual reality and fashion.