Mood Board

Final Line Up

Accessories

Design Development

Looking at garments individually

Dresses

Skirts

Tops

Collection Name

For the name of my collection I wanted to play on the ideas of both fairy tales and animals. I came up with the name 'Furry Tale' as it is a play on words of both of my concept themes.

I want to make a 'logo' kind of thing as I have to include my collection name on all of my final boards, and would like this to to fit in with the style of my drawings.

Design Development

After my last designs, I noticed it is hard to design each garment singularly (particularly the tops and skirts) when they are combined into one outfit. I have decided to change the way I am going about designing these items, and instead of designing outfits as a whole, I will design each garment individually and put them back into outfits later. I think this will work well to ensure I make every garment interesting, as my intention is for every garment to be able to mix and match with the others in my collection as well as other garments the buyer will own already.

I want to design variations of tops and skirts to consider for my finals. I think this will allow me to expand on my ideas further.

Adding colour and pattern to my concepts

I quite like the look of these. I think I need to work on the colour combinations more, and amp up the pattern clashing more. Next time I will also try and include the screen print ideas I have had too.

Fabric Selection

I would like for my fabrics to come in a range of colours within the colour range I have selected ( pastel blue, purple and pink, as well as cream / white and brown ).

Ideally all of the fabrics used in this collection should be easily washed, and easily move with the body, because children are more likely to be doing activities where they spill things on themselves, or where they move in ways not all fabrics can stretch.

I think that the best fabrics to use are the standard kind of t-shirt fabrics, in a range of colours.

More Screen Print Ideas

Considering Garment variations / Concept Sketches

I really wanted to consider variations of garment combinations within each outfit to ensure each look is different from each other.

To do this I looked at the different types of garments and outerwear I have used in my sketches so far.

I kind of wanted to plan what kind of garments I would use within each outfit before I started designing.

To do this I thought of some garment variations that seemed to work effectively in my earlier designs, remembering to consider that they are intended for Winter.

The combinations I came up with were :

• Dress with tights
• Dress with leggings
• Skirt and top with tights
• Skirt and top with leggings
• Top with leggings

As I came up with 5, I figured I could use each combination twice to make a 10 outfit collection. I then looked at what I thought were the most effective outerwear garments I used in my prior designs, so that I can refer to them in my future designing.

The outerwear garments I thought were the most effective were :

• Coat
• Cardigan
• Vest
• Hoodie

I tested how these garment variations would look together. I don't intend to use these garment variations as law, but guidelines to try and ensure differentiation in the garment types I use.

I think they way that there is not an overload of one type of garment in these concepts is good. All of the dresses are in the top row, the skirts are in the second row, and the leggings are in the bottom, with tops and outerwear throughout.

Considering garment types

I brainstormed a variety of different casual wear garments that I think I should include in my design work.

A lot of the garment types I specified can be made in a variety of ways and designs ( particularly tops ). I Drew combinations of different styles of tops with different styles of skirts and leggings to figure out which work well, which don't and which I should use / consider in my designs.

Top and Legging Variations

Top and Skirt Variations