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Miyake musings
Oct. 3rd, 2001 12:18 pmWent to the first of 3 Miyake "futon coat" (pictured at lower right) classes that I'll be taking over the next 3 weeks. This is a wonderful pattern that I've been sitting on for years, and its been helpful to brainstorm with others because for all these years I've not really had any solid idea of how I'd want to do it. It could do well so many different ways and I'm irritated because there are so many different options and nothing is "hitting" me just yet. I think I'm having a creative blockade.
I'm tempted to do a monochrome with 3 different textures, but the likelihood of finding 3 different fabrics of similar weight/color that have completely different textures is incredibly unlikely. I'm also going to try my best to stay away from solid black anyway as it is my default for just about everything - too easy.
The rest of the week I'm going to spend trying to get ideas (breaking out every single art/fashion book I've got) and make the round of fabric stores this weekend, but I hope I don't get set on any one idea - what I end up using is going to depend largely on what is available in the stores - it needs to be cut out and marked by next Tuesday so that kind of leaves online fabric stores out of the picture.
I'm also hearing from the Miyake fans in the class that Claude Montana's patterns are starting to achieve a similar cult status. Makes sense - his suits and dresses are SHARP and extremely elegant. I have a few of his patterns but they are so sophisticated I almost think I'm too young for them - I'll save them for my late 30s and 40s.
I'm tempted to do a monochrome with 3 different textures, but the likelihood of finding 3 different fabrics of similar weight/color that have completely different textures is incredibly unlikely. I'm also going to try my best to stay away from solid black anyway as it is my default for just about everything - too easy.
The rest of the week I'm going to spend trying to get ideas (breaking out every single art/fashion book I've got) and make the round of fabric stores this weekend, but I hope I don't get set on any one idea - what I end up using is going to depend largely on what is available in the stores - it needs to be cut out and marked by next Tuesday so that kind of leaves online fabric stores out of the picture.
I'm also hearing from the Miyake fans in the class that Claude Montana's patterns are starting to achieve a similar cult status. Makes sense - his suits and dresses are SHARP and extremely elegant. I have a few of his patterns but they are so sophisticated I almost think I'm too young for them - I'll save them for my late 30s and 40s.
