Perpetually Five Photo Shoot

Perpetually Five has teamed up with local photographer Ben Davies. The photo shoot turend out really well.

Please note that these are not the final edits:

Giraffe Suit Production

Final Production - Julius

Pocket Bags

I have decided to scribble on the pocket bags as a way of adding more colour and a different print. I think it is quite fun and successful. 

Styling options

Thought I would try out some hats for the styling of the Kinetic Fashion parade.

Shirt Detail

I thought it might look good to ad a little 3D detail to the yoke of a shirt. Unfortunately it didn't look that great so I decided to scrap the idea.

Raincoat Material

I am still trying to find the material I want for my raincoat. I am getting closer. Im not sure if I like the material below. The detail on the pool bed is not that attractive and the glitter might be a bit girly. If I cant find the fabric I will just have to go with plain and give it a little colour with the stitching.

Shoes

Shoes for the parade. I found these shoes on Asos. They are quite cheap and I think they would look pretty good with colourful socks and make my collection sophisticated.

Rain Coat

My feedback after toile review was to create another silhouette this could include a vest or something more experimental. I had played with some designs in my visual diary and I thought it would be good to create a rain coat. I find that there aren't many raincoats out their for adults let alone any trendy rain coats.

What I thought would be good was to create a see through rain coat so that you can still see the garments underneath. I wanted to stick with my colourway however, I am finding it hard to find colourful see through fabrics. I found some shower curtains with had my colourway in stripes but the material wasn't the best.

I then thought about maybe buying a inflatable chair and cutting it up for my patterns. After talking to my consumer I found that maybe the orange see through might not be that appealing and a clear plastic with colourful highlights like binding could look a lot better.

Material Exploration

I have been thinking about presentation when it comes to the catwalk. I want my mood to be fun yet sophisticated. I had the idea of incorporating children's techniques in my total looks. This would include collages and craft. I purchased a bunch of pom-poms, pipe cleaners, streamers and paddle pop sticks and tried to create something fun which I could use in my presentation.

This is just the beginning and I think with more refinement I could come up with something fun.

I will also be using the chalkboard paint so the wearer can personalise and individualise. Rather than sticking with the usual black chalkboard paint I have decided to experiment with colourful ones to tie in with my aesthetic.

Model Casting

Kinetic Fashion Parade held a model casting event at Westfield Belconnen. A number of people showed up to the night and we had the models walk down and show us their stuff.

I ended up choosing the following 5 models.

However Model 1 and 2 below took a long time to get back to me so I have to look for 2 different models.

Logo Design

As mentioned earlier I have been collaborating with Dinah Pollard of ZOO Advertising. Previously Dinah has helped me with my prints but I have also asked her to help me with my logo. My original logo which I created my self is on the left here.

Dinah worked on different fonts and different ways of writing my labels name. However I thought her designs were unsuccessful. So I organised to meet with Dinah to work on a logo together.

 Dinah said that a logo needs to look good in black and white. It also needs to look good both big and small. We found a font that we both liked then decided to add one of the pictures of my prints. We chose a simple rabbit and played around with the positive and negative space. Also tried different ways of placing the logo. 

In the end we were both happy with the circle logo.

Interactive Clothing

I found this T-shirt online. I could not find who it was by but I did find a website where they give you step by step instructions on how to make one. It is a T-shirt with a car track on it designed so that an adult can lie down and the children can play cars on the back. 

This is designed to be fun for the kids and give a massage for the adult. This is a simple yet great example of clothing designed for children to interact with.

Converse Shoes

For the end of year parade I plan to have my models wearing customised Converse shoes. These shoes will be designed to match the colours of the each garment. According to the website it takes 2 to 3 weeks for your unique and individual creation to arrive.

You can also personalise the shoe with an ID. Since Perpetually Five will not fit it could be an idea to number each shoe design and since I will be having 5 models that could be a nice way to link Perpetually Five.

Sophisticated Prints

My graphic designer also produced some prints with a more sophisticated colour-way.

These colours were based on the current trends that she found through designers such as Marc Jacobs and Paul Smith

Collaboration with graphic designer - Dinah Pollard

I met with Dinah Pollard a graphic designer at ZOO Advertising to help collaborate with me for my fabric designs.

I informed Dinah of what I am trying to achieve with the prints whilst also showing her some of my designs.

Dinah was happy with my original print designs but thought that some of the colour combinations needed some work.

Dinah thought that it would be best to create vibrant colourful prints to reflect the imagination of the child and also to achieve promotional designs.

Together we sat down and worked out my colour-way and tried to refine my prints. Below are the prints that we came up with:

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