2019 Collection Plan

2019 Collection Plan

COLLIDE FRAGMENTATION COLLISIONS "ERRORS"

Rosanna Li

Rosanna is a Melbourne-based fashion designer with a previous career background in foreign languages, international affairs and education. She has lived and worked in Japan, USA and Australia in teaching and project management. In 2015, Li began studies in fashion design, pattern making and construction and is now completing her final year of Masters at The School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT, Melbourne.

Particular interests include 3D virtual prototyping, deconstruction and exploring new materials.

BIO ROSANNA LI

DESIGN STRATEGIES & EVOLVING METHOD

A number of design exercises informed my initial toile and will serve as a guide for a system of design which will be the basis for my 2019 collection.

Still life compositions from random objects provide fertile ground for creative development. Here a simple color blocking drawing exercise gave birth to interesting shapes, which were then applied to a body context.

Applying the forms to the body was done through digital collage using Photoshop

Enlarged shapes were cut out in fabric. This was the next method of applying the colour blocked shapes to the body.

During our first design activities, draping clothes on a live model gave rise to new discoveries in materials texture, colour and composition. Flat draping on the floor was a simple and fast way to work without gravity.

I continued using flat surfaces like floors and walls to arrange my shapes together with the digital collages as a guide

I plan to collect a series of abstract forms derived from colour blocking random object still life compositions. These abstract forms will be used as pattern pieces and applied to the body using fashion design principles.

This visualization process will be achieved through through the use of virtual prototyping simulation software, where digital mesh layers can jostle and collide in a neverending algorithmic glitch. In this way, I seek to blend analogue and digital worlds and make use of computation errors as a creative method.

Selected garment archetypes will be "mixed" into the silhouette in a way which expresses the desire for a cohesive whole, at the same time the tension between abstract forms and archetyped forms, pushing and pulling each other and competing for supremacy.

each mistake teaches us something ANONYMOUS

Collect moments, not things.

ROSANNA LI 2019

We all need a little adventure.