Crit

Well the crit is here and I have chosen the best pages from my sketchbook that I think will represent the whole thing as a whole.

I first started with research and I mean lots and lots of research. This led me to my chosen theme.

My theme is the rapture. A prophecised event in the Bible which fortels the end of this world along with all the people left behind (werent taken up to heaven) and the creation of a new world. I feel I was wrongly left behind in this world, and now have to face all the troubles that come along with it.

There are 7 Bowls of Wrath, that come and turn the world into chaos destroying some of the most important things man needs to survive. I was more interested in the 3rd and 4th bowls, in which the river and springs turn to blood, which will eventually reach the pipeline and ever home on the planet and the other is intense heat from the sun, as it just keeps getting hotter.

From there I began to look at things for my survival as without proper water and constant heat on people will start to go crazy and attack each other. Soon the Earth will become survival of the fittest. The thing is I dont want to fight, I just want to survive so I began to look into riot shields that police use to protect themselves in the masses of a riot.

I began designing with all these things in mind, and I thought about places these shield shapes as shoulder pads on the garment to see how it looks. I like this garment as it looks simple and safe but it doesnt have anything special about it.

I then thought about how the Earth would look whilst it is being destroyed and tried to show this in my garmennt design with reverse applique. This design isnt too good as it look like no thought or effort has gone into this design at all.

I then thought more about the structure of the garment and decided to use the strength of the riot shields to add from and shape to the hips. It gives a more feminine effect but also a strong powerful tone to the garment. So I decided to stick with this shape just develop it more.

This is my final design. It incoroporates everything I have talked about here and has organza sleeves as I want the arms to be covere from the sun but not so that they will overheat. The shorts will be weaved form black bin bags that are heated to give the effect it will get from the sun adn dark brown polycotton, The jacket will be a cream cotton that has been buried in the dirt to give a recycled look to the garment, as I dont want it to be pretty.

This is my landscape.

This is my final design sheet.