Finding Traces- The Wedgwood collection

Posted on 06 Aug 2006

Finding Traces- The Wedgwood collection

The idea is based on finding traces. The mark or trace that would suggest and hint the viewer what the original object or thing is without showing it to them. How this trace is produced or maintain is important in this concept. In fashion, people tend to alter and change the original piece by deconstructing the garment so that it looks different, however, I would like to make the original disappear rather than 'looking' different. Although the original has disappear, the traces or marks will still be able to suggest the view where it came from and what the original piece was. The medium I have chosen to produce the trace is ceramics. In order to produce the trace, I shall attach pieces of the garment and dip tem into the ceramic slips, then fire it like any other ceramic, by doing so in such hot temperature, the fabric will completely vanish. All it will leave behind is the form and marks of the pattern of the garment. The new piece will then be connected as part and reminiscent of the garment. My inspiration of this design is from the Victorian and Rococo period, because during this period, fashion are all hand crafted, and much emphasis was towards the prints and design, I would like to show this emphasis through the delicacy of the ceramics. I have chosen to use chiffons and knitted fabrics because the hard and the soft can really contrast each other. The ceramic pieces will be use as collar, button, as well as sewing the ceramics into fabrics to create more definite shapes. The colourways are based on the Wedgwood's collection - Jasper, the signature colour of the company and I finalize it into the ceramic collection.

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