Being a member of the CSU student chapter of fgi, I decided to enter 2 pieces into the winter show. One of my pieces was a dress that I entered in the general submission category. This dress was a fun, voluminous, magenta, purple and silver one on which I tried doing different things on. For the bodice I pieced together geometric shapes and on the skirt i draped the fabrics by tacking it randomly together to create lots of volume. The second dress I entered was from a 48 hour design competition that fgi did. for the competition, each contestant had to go pick out fabric from the remnants in the CSU sewing lab on friday, and then on saturday morning we were emailed the sinario. We then had until 48 hours later to create a garment with in the sinario. Our sinario was origami, and luckily I had chose lots of fabrics to I had lots of variety to choose from. I ended going with a black, gray and teal color theme and worked 8 hours the first day and over 9 hours the second. the dress includes 32 folded triangle around the waist, similar to origami. each triangle was inferfaced, and backed with a different color than the front to create more of a contrast. I was so happy with the way both dresses turned out. After the show, 2 winning designs were chosen from over 30 designs. One winner was chosen fromthe general submissions and one from the 48 hour competition designs. My origami dress won in that category! (Thank you to my fabulous model/roommate Kayla Balciar!)also!
i was mentioned in this fashion blog :)
http://lebeaumannequin.com/2010/12/18/csu-behind-the-seams-winter-fashion-show/
