Our My main theme I wanted for this jacket was to show that you can still have an element of elegance within a structured jacket. I believe you can have timeless shapes through a shoulder pad or a big sleeve however to take a movement and a structure at the same time is bit more of a challenge. When researching into Zaha Hadid I noticed that her designs used an element of light, so for my jacket I wanted to add elements of sheer or clear fabrics. When I was scrolling on instagram one day I saw this creator made macrame tops. It made me think about using wire or rope to create interesting shapes.

One thing that became apparent to me was to I didn’t want to use the pure rope in my final piece so I looked at using different techniques such as stuffing some jersey with a thicker foam along the lines of what you would use to line a sofa or a headboard. I did also look into using toy stuffing however the overall results are uneven and bulky which isn’t the result I was hoping for.

After a few trails I deciding to get some thicker rope from amazon we had some at college that I practiced draping on the stand. I did consider sewing into onto some mesh but I thought to capture the 3D architectural element that it would have better effect left as it is. A tutor at my college pointed out a timing issue with my design because sewing each covered rope together would day hours that I didn’t have time for before the runway, so she came up with the idea of using clothing tags. I had some shorter size ones ordered int so that it would stop the ropes from moving too much and this cut construction time down by loads.