Sweet Southern Comfort

Sweet Southern Comfort is a bright and airy collection that embodies the feeling of summertime in the South. This five-piece collection was created as my final project for my draping class where the requirements were as follows. 

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"Final Project Design Development: You will need to document your design process in your journal. Include a thorough collection of images, notes, fabrics, costs, and sketches to clearly depict your research and ideas for the final project.

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Process: 

• Research an overriding concept, fashion trends, and market segments, and find inspirational sources.

• Develop a theme based on your inspiration and choose a target market you are designing for.

• Create a line of clothing (that has a cohesive theme, draped elements, and a variety of garment items) based on your theme and intended target market, which should be correlated/coordinated, yet interesting individually. The design features should demonstrate the rigor, quality, and innovativeness of an emerging designer.

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Assessment: The sketchbook assignments will be assessed for the quality and completeness of the following. 

• Exploration of a concept that is thorough, understandable, and compiles ideas in a new way.

• Designs are a departure from the concept that adds something new to design yet remains sellable to the stated market.

• Designs appear coordinated by repeating selected elements and principles of design.

• Execution of sketches is understandable to the viewer with seam lines, details, fabric movement, and drape indicated.

• The concept, market and store type, fabrics, price, and other information to clarify the line are appropriately documented."