Final Degree Show Presentation

Final Photo Shoot...

Designer - Lois Albinson 

Model - Laura Gallagher 

Final Photo Shoot...

Designer - Lois Albinson 

Model - Laura Gallagher 

Final Photo Shoot...

Designer - Lois Albinson 

Model - Laura Gallagher 

First Knitwear Garment...

Second Knitwear Garment...

Second Garment Design...

First Garment Design...

The following image shows the initial stage of one of my garments for my 'Neglect' project. The dress is made up of over 8 pieces of fabric, in which they have been produced on both a standard and chunky gauge domestic knitting machine. I have used a variety of techniques with which each of the smaller pieces making up the garment are all entirely different. The dress consists of pieces that have been knitted in different directions along with different sizes to create a sense of distortion and unexpectedness. 

I aim to extend the dress to almost floor length and finalise the solid black hem around the neckline to add a sense of order and intention to the finish of the garment. 

Large manipulated knitted fabric...

This piece of fabric is made up of two smaller samples. It is an example of how I would like to create my garment, by using smaller pieces to construct one large unexpected and unplanned garment. As the fabric construction is a very intricate and lengthy process, it is difficult to design a garment structure with the normal technologically aided design. It will need more of a manual trial and error approach, whereby, as the fabric begins to grow, I will pin it on a mannequin to help identify my next move. This procedure allows the garment to become more abstract and less obviously 'designed'. 

Photoshop edited knitted samples

These are a couple of quick Photoshop designs I created using an a single Givenchy image and used the existing garment shape as a template to edit in my own knitted samples. I like to experiment with digitalised illustrations to get an insight into how my designs may look, before I fully begin to develop my own garment designs. 

A few knitted samples from my current project...

Below are some of my favourite samples that I have produced so far on the domestic knitting machine. They incorporate a variety of yarns including mohair, mono filament and textured yarns...I really like the combination of densities within the samples however during my further developemnt process I would like to push colour and densities to really express the ideas of distortion and layering...

I purposely haven't removed (woven in) the ends of the yarn as I am really beginning to love the loose fringe effect and so I am going to develop this idea further within my knit sampling... 

Moment of Impact - Final Knitted Garment...