SURREALISM

The class "Fashion and Architecture" was a course taken while studying abroad in Rome with the goal to broaden students' horizon and give them an enriched point of view towards design. For this assignment students were asked to develop a concept that merged architecture and fashion to demonstrate an enriched point of view towards design.

Through the design process I found myself most drawn to the descriptive words: ambiguity, extravagant, bizarre, and unconventional. Through careful study and trial the idea formed into a more conceptual idea of Surrealism.

This collage was designed to find different interpretations of surrealism through experimentation. The use of textures, colour schemes, and taking objects out of context created a new sense of the term surrealism in relation to architecture and fashion design.

The next step in the progression of the project was to create collages on Adobe Photoshop derived from the photo collage. I took different inanimate objects and textures to create form rather than fashion, derived from my interpretation of surrealism.

We then used these forms to study shapes and formed created within the designs.

For the final process in the project students were asked to bring the designs to life through texture and material studies. My personal design process was to explore the materialistic relationship between textile and technological fabrication.

The cohesive series serves the purpose of defining the interaction between fashion, architecture and technology.