Undoubtedly, the best part of my week last week was winning over many other student designers in the fgi winter fashion show on thursday! the dress that won was one from a 48 hour design competition. for the competition, each contestant had to go pick out fabric from the remnants in the CSU sewing lab on friday, and then on saturday morning we were emailed the sinario. We then had until 48 hours later to create a garment with in the sinario. Our sinario was origami, and luckily I had chose lots of fabrics to I had lots of variety to choose from. I ended going with a black, gray and teal color theme and worked 8 hours the first day and over 9 hours the second. the dress includes 32 folded triangle around the waist, similar to origami. each triangle was inferfaced, and backed with a different color than the front to create more of a contrast. that one was challenge and sure took lots of work, but i was ultimately very pleased with the product! I also entered a dress into the general submission category. This dress was a fun, voluminous, magenta, purple and silver one on which I tried doing different things on. For the bodice I pieced together geometric shapes and on the skirt i draped the fabrics by tacking it randomly together to create lots of volume. this one i think was my favorite of the two because it was something i had been thinking about for such a long time.
my prize was a $100 gift card to the outlets of colorado (with which i bought 3 new pairs of boots!) and a $30 starbucks giftcard. even if i hadnt won, i would never trade the experience for anything! i loved loved loved it, and i am so exciting for what i will be doing in my future! :D
loverretta
