3 Materials + 6 Hours + 1 Vision

Here are some photos from our design challenge where we had to design an outfit made from paper, tape, and honeycomb cardboard.

Jody and Ilana start sketching ideas for our design.

The design is to reflect our design philosophy:

Design is a visual expression of modern society, bringing 

your vision to a reality. Creating an innovative, inspirational,

edgy look on mainstream design.

This black capelet was a piece of inspiration that

we found in Surface Magazine. 

Also from Surface Magazine, we were inspired by 

these heels and how we could design and create them.

Our studio decided to create an outfit that was

unique, driven by lines and angles, and cohesive

in many ways. These were our sketches for 

our design.

This is the beginning idea of how we wanted 

the heels to look.

Then we found these awesome egg carton-like

pieces to complete the heel. 

Above is the sketch of the heels.

This is a picture of Jody in front of the massive 

amount of paper that we had to use in order to 

create the skirt.

Here is a picture of Ilana holding the heel

before she became Lady GaGa's clone.

Above is Jody playing dress-up with the 

huge shoulder pads.

Viola! The beginnings of the skirt!

This was quite a long process of making sure

that the skirt covered Ilana as well as not

making it overly creased. 

Ilana modeling the first incision (diagonal cut)

into our the skirt. 

Cutting the back of the skirt so that

it matches the angle of the front.

This was hard to do since we couldn't 

take the skirt off of Ilana.

The skirt and capelet are completed (roughly).

Ilana is uncomfortable... you can tell by her big

smiles! =]

This is the process of placing masking 

tape on the cut out of the large collar.

We were super excited that the collar

turned out so well.

Above is a sideview of the completed 

piece.

The collar and strong angles turned

out great. She looked killer on the 

runway.

Haha! The left shoe took a dive and fell 

apart post-runway. It just kind of collapsed.

This experience was a lot of fun. We created a 3 piece outfit from scratch, laughed at a lot of different ways certain pieces had turned out, and learned a lot about how people on Project Runway feel with the time counting down to the last second. 

More to come! Stay tuned... Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel!