Progress is continuing on all of the looks. Unfortunately it’s still mostly back-end technical work, so there’s not much actual product to show yet. 1) Speaker coat: I finally sourced and purchased the fabric for …
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Comfort Zone Update: Spring Break edition
After a couple of weeks off due to a family medical crisis, I have a good bit of progress to report! First, I finalized garment sketches and put all of my fabrics together to make …
Week 5
Last week got eaten by an unexpected job application opportunity, so there wasn’t as much progress on the show front as I planned. I finished the collar assembly for the hooded sweater. The retraction works …
Week 4
This week: My meeting with Natalie Rudolph went well and I think we will be able to collaborate in the future. However, the work we were talking about would be for next year, due to …
Week 3
This week got devoured by meetings, so I don’t have a huge project update. I had a good meeting with Meg Mitchell in which we discussed my direction and plans for my upcoming qualifier show. …
Kent State Fashion/Tech Hackathon
This past weekend I drove to Kent State in order to attend the TechStyle Symposium and the Fashion/Tech Hackathon. The symposium, held on Friday, was a gathering of apparel professors and graduate students from schools …
Wrap Up
1) Describe your final project. My final project is a white & copper vest and jeans outfit titled “Switch”. (Bonus points if you get the movie reference!) At this point it is incomplete, but in …
Failure, part 2…hundred…
I’ve decided this project is cursed. Things were looking up at the beginning of the week. My print finally worked out well and all of my electronics arrived on time. I assembled a nice mounting …
From crisis comes opportunity…
(Sorry for the lateness of the post – I didn’t realize that internet connectivity was going to be such a problem in Canada.) The exhibition piece has been unfortunately plagued with failure. 1) Muscle wires: …
Getting Closer…
My new Flexinol finally arrived. I wired up a new test using the thinner music wire I purchased and the results were…unsuccessful, but encouraging. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqKqs0836uM You can see in the video that the Flexinol works …