the last collection
In my final year at school the big project was to create a complete five outfit collection. We did everything, design, illustration, drafting, muslins, patterns, samples, market research, presentation…
My collection was called Final Fashion – the last collection.
This is my inspiration board. I was inspired by Vionnet’s genius with drape and cut, decay and damage like McQueen’s shipwreck dress, and the easy versatility of Claire McCardell’s monastic dress. I’m really into post-civilization speculative fantasy so I selected a palette of neutrals suggesting deserts and nomads. The fabrics were light, textured cottons, jerseys and leather for the accessories.
The full online collection of visual paraphenalia of this collection can be seen here. I also created my first blog to document the story of the last collection, so if you’re interested you can read the long story here.
After much reiteration, many versions of muslins and many adjustments to the illustrations, this is my final set of illustrations…
…and my line summary…
…and the final product…
The collection featured garments which fit flexibly, either wrapping and tying, volumes that were cinched, or lacing allowing the garments to be adjusted to a variety of figures and proportions. Loops and laces could be played with to create multiple looks within single garments. Everything is easy to care for and easy to mix up. These are garments that give you permission to play in front of the mirror, to experiment and play with how they may be worn.
The graduate fashion show can be seen here, mine is collection number five.
It was an incredibly huge project which absorbed me for months and months, and it’s still too soon for me to be able to have some perspective on it or to say definitively if Final Fashion has a future in the real world. It’s enough to say that the last collection was really just the beginning…
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[...] I just realized that my fourth year collection is not featured here. It is the centerpiece of my portfolio after all, right?  So here is is… the last collection. [...]
where’s the jug purse?
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i like ur work soo much im a designer from libya im in visit to toronto now looking to stay here and work as a fashion designer in the future but i think i have to study fashion first im a great designer my work is good
i like some help to know things about fashion here in toronto could you help me?
I love your collection. I can’t draw to save my life and so never went into design, but I love clothes and fashion. The stuff you have looks very wearable, comfy, feminine but also has an edge to it. Gorgeous!
Wow!!! I love your collection. Can definitely see that you will make it one day soon.
That’s amazing! Your collection is so beautiful! I’m just starting to study fashion, and I can already see that you have more talent than some of my teachers!!!
[...] last year of school project: Final Fashion – the last collection. It’s amazing to see garments materialized like this, [...]
Hi Dear sir
I’m Sepideh,I’m studing Fashion Designe in Iran.I’m searching for fashion illustration .unfortunately In Iran we don’t have enough sources for this subject.. Please if it possible send me some General informathion aboat this subject.
thank you
Hi Sepideh,
I am a fashion illustrator, and there is a lot of information relating to what I do on this site. Use the search bar on the right. You can also find sources elsewhere on the internet. For General Information it is up to you to find what you need.
Hi ya,, i am going to uni this year to study fashion. I think your collection is great. I love the colour concept. Were you required to sew all the pieces or you had specialist help in that area? thanks
Hi Pez, thanks for the comment. To answer your question, yes I sewed everything in the collection.
[...] to patterns to samples to presentation – is pretty daunting. I remember when I was designing my fourth year collection, I had some goals in mind and some strategy too. What were your goals last September and what was [...]
I am soooo inspired by your work!! From the illustrations which I LOVE (cause I love to illustrate!)to the actual garments!! Your work is truly BREATHTAKING!! Do you ever come to Atlanta, Georgia and show your work? I would be honored to meet you…
[...] an invisible zipper and one of the 1000 “Final Fashion” labels I had woven up for my grad collection in 2006 (of which I have used about 20 so far). I didn’t have to go shopping for any of these [...]
[...] Even though I am not a designer, sometimes I am seized with a desire to make a dress. Even if I have better things to do, I’ll find myself feverishly drafting, cutting and sewing to make my idea in the cloth. This was one of those dresses. I shamelessly imitated the bodice of the Butikofer dress I love, but redesigned the skirt to suit some oatmeal crinkle cotton I had on hand, left over from my grad collection. [...]
[...] to think, write, discuss, and observe fashion. It was an epiphany on the same level as when I named my grad collection “final fashion”, or when I first put “fashion illustrator” on my business [...]