WEEK TEN

Photographic Image Taken

For this week session, we did mind mapping with images given by my lecturer. We have been asked to arrange the images under the categories of Mood, Theme, Textile & Print, Colour and Zeitgeist.

First of all, I did a careful study of the pictures then sorted then out into the best fitting category.

Mood

I received three images depicts foggy, rainy and gloomy weather which illustrating to moody, solemn, depressed, somber, bleak, melancholy, morose and upset.

Zeitgeist

I received two images and five headlines about killing and murders which translate to complexity of the world,  unfortunate events, cultural differences, psychological, sociological and cultural analysis.

Colour

In the rotten grapes image

White represents peace and purity and innocence

Blue represents trust, loyalty, responsibility, physical and mental relaxation

Purple represents calm and wisdom

Black represents darkness and solemn

Green represents balance, harmony and growth

Theme

The image represents human trapped in modern technology, drained by the conflicts of the world.

Textile and Prints

Netting, mesh, woven, leather, zipper, print and knitwear.

Woven knit in tangled manner to represent unsolved issues and layered with pleatings represents heavy

Through this class exercise, I learnt to better organise and create trend forecasting with images. This will turn out helping me with my trend forecasting.

WEEK NINE

In this week session, we watched Youtube video on 'The Next Black - A film about the Future of Clothing' from AED. There are many futuristic ideas in the film. The key concept of this film is for us look forwards to next 50 years of the clothing line where we see more colours collection and styles, the concept of clothing will change such that textile will not cover bodies and signify social code fabrics are sewn with needles and sold in stories. Modern innovation progressively changing the style that alters the entire concept of clothing.

Merging fashion & tech

Nancy Tilbury is one of the pioneers emerging modern technology and fashion together with her team at studio Xo - Creating digital Couture experiences which in basic terms means creating garments that are interactive and evolving.

Lady Gaga in iTunes Festival
Performance art dress named an enemy which animated and released bubbles

From the image on the top, Lady Gaga is seen wearing a modern engineered garment, which enables water bubbles to be created on their own. The modern technology that is engineered will be the future heights for creating garments for the modern population.

Smart Clothing

MATT HYMERS - Adidas

Sportwears that has the heart rate and movement sensors seamlessly integrated and accelerometers into the fabric - improve health care with built in monitor. 

Adidas Sportswear with sensors

Bibliography 

Lady GaGa Dress. (n.d.). Retrieved March, 2017, from http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/pc/Lady Gaga seen magic bubble machine outfit TAmPgsEvmB-x.jpg

Matt Hymers Sportswear. (n.d.). Retrieved March, 2017, from http://apnioktvhny.blogspot.sg/2016_10_01_archive.html

WEEK EIGHT

For this week, I decided my consumer profile consists of mixed gender who work in creative industry, with an age range between 20 to 40 years old. One main reason for this particular target audience is due to the fact that people from the creative industry are usually more expressive in terms of their choice of clothing, making them a choice target audience. 

I also created consumer surveys and get an insight views on how the targeted consumers feel towards the concept of the gender-neutral trend with culturally influenced by Asian and western clothing for all gender and what they hope to result from it. The survey asks the respondents if they were aware of the concept of androgyny towards the general public. The survey also asks about the modern technologies used in the fashion trends. However, it takes the question to a further step by also inquiry their daily clothing style so that I can have a clearer picture on how the consumer usually dresses.

In addition, I wanted to determine if they were conscious of how people view them based on their clothing preferences, and whether or not it affects the way they dress. Moreover, I presented a question to find out if clothing had, in any way, help consumers express their fetishism and sexuality and improve their social positions. Besides that, I wanted to know if consumers feel that they are willing to try new clothing line from the ordinary fabrics and construction of the garments so that I can get a grasp on what to do with my trend forecasting.