Continuous Assignment : Body Image & Positivity

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LECTURER: MR JASMI REJAB

CONTINUOUS ASSIGNMENT: BODY IMAGE & POSITIVITY

WEEK 1 - WEEK 14

ASSIGNMENT 1: PORTFOLIO RESEARCH & DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Assignment Brief

In the first week, our lecturer brief us our assignment guidelines and what’s the requirements. For this semester, our aim is to come out with one collection that is inspired by body image and positivity. Each of us is going to choose one different topic and use that for the collection inspiration. For my collection, I’ve chose plastic surgery. Before I show more about this collection, let’s have a look at the research parts,

Research

Body Image and Positivity

What is body image?

Body image is a person's thoughts, feelings and perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body.
Body image can be negative ("body negativity") or positive ("body positivity"). A person with a negative body image may feel self-conscious or ashamed, and may feel that others are more attractive.

In a time where social media holds a very important place and is used frequently in our daily lives. People of different ages are affected emotionally and mentally by the appearance and body size/shape ideals set by the society they live in. These standards created and changed by society created a world filled with body shaming; the act humiliating an individual by mocking or making critical comments about a person’s physiological appearance. So many people struggle with society’s criticism on their appearance. With so much negativity, it is often difficult to love oneself.

Mindmap

Research on Plastic Surgery

We also had a study trip to Sekolah Kebangsaan Bandar Sunway to understand those students perspective of body image and plastic surgery.

MOODBOARD

This collection "Bloody Bombshell" means a shocking and unwelcome surprise, it is unpleasant to somebody, which is the side effect of plastic surgery. This collection will be showing the side effect of plastic surgery but still will use them to create a different kind of beauty.

Conceptual Story Narrative

The society sets up a lot of condition that we need to reach in order to look perfect to others. Because of that, plastic surgery becomes a normality in this generation. People started to get plastic surgery because of criticism of one’s appearance and self-conscious. A little of plastic surgery may brings self-confidence to people but some had the oddest manias. They couldn’t stop themselves from reaching the “perfect body” so that leads to a horrible, irreparable result.

This Spring/Summer 2022 collection – Bloody Bombshell shows the unexpected and unpleasant effects of plastic surgery. I reconstruct the unproportionate facial figure to create different layout on the garments. The juxtaposition of the figure and texture creates a kind of fabric that reflects plastic surgery. I experienced this technique and tried to create a different kind of beauty.

This collection is to shows the bombshell of plastic surgery and to convey the message that beauty is cannot be measured. Beauty is just an empty notion without the inside; it should be about health, strength, positivity, and being stress-free. Beauty isn’t the same for everyone. We can and should build our own version of beauty, build our best selves.

Initial Ideas

Design Developments

In the design, there is a lot of facial figure like eyes, noses, lips because I want to tell that these are the elements everyone has, although there might be different but we are still the same so don't be afraid to show the beauty of yourself, we are all beauty for being us.

ASSIGNMENT 2: FABRIC MANIPULATION & SAMPLINGS

WEEK 5 - WEEK 7

Assignment Brief

In this assignment, we are required to create 3 to 5 pieces of 3D fabric manipulation and samples that is related to our previous designs in assignment 1.

For the fabric choices, I choose beige colour because it is close to the skin and with texture to show the effect of plastic surgery. The textures are in red, green, black and white. Red represent for blood, green is to show the nature side and black and white is to outline.

The choice of using safety pin, bandage and stitches is somehow very straight forward to explain plastic surgery. There are also red net and leather to show the effect of skin.

Fabric Choices:

FINAL PROJECT:

DESIGNING FOR EDUCATION OF BODY IMAGE & POSITIVITY

WEEK 8 - WEEK 14

Assignment Brief

Before started making the garment, I drew the technical drawing to better understand the construction and pattern layout.

The progress of making 3 looks:

Look 1

Modaris Software

Diamino Software

PDF after Justprint Software

Front Pattern

Back Pattern

Look 2

Front Jacket Draping Lines

Back Jacket Draping Lines

Front Pattern

Back Pattern

Actual Fabric

Look 3

Modaris Software - raglan sleeves jacket

Diamino Software - raglan sleeves jacket

Modaris Software - trouser

Front Pattern

Back Pattern

Trouser Pattern

Final Outcome

Look 1

Look 2

Look 3

Reflection

The whole process is not easy but also not that hard. the difficult part I would say is time. Because I bought all my fabric on internet and they are all sent from China so the time prediction is not that easy. But luckily all the fabric reached before final presentation, and I got to finish everything. Although it really takes my sleeping time away but I'm still happy with it when I see the result.

I want to thank Mr JR and Mr Riza because they really helped a lot in the whole process. Mr JR always give useful suggestions that I never thought before which I think is a very good thing. As what Mr JR said, 2 brain is definitely better than one and I totally agree. He always give a lot and it's just nice because sometimes I'm lack of creativity or I can say I not dare to go big enough, but he can helps me fill this part.