Week 2 Lecture and Exercise

Lecture:

This week, we learned about design proportion in fashion, which includes proportion and disproportion.

Proportion in fashion design refers to the size relationship of each element in the outfit and the whole design, and is also how lines and shapes divide the outfit into sections.

Designers use proportion to ensure the outfit is done according to the proportion of the body figure. This is because everyone has a different body shape.

Disproportion, however, makes an outfit more unique when divided into uneven or unequal parts.

Our lecturer then proceeds to show us different examples of proportional and disproportional garments according to line, shape/silhouette, texture, and colour. 

Tutorial: 

For our tutorial, we did exercise 2, which is drawing a fashion figure using the 9-head figure theory.

Our lecturer guided us step-by-step so we knew how the proportions were like. We were also encouraged to share our drawings with each other.

We were then briefed on Assignment 2, which was using cut-and-paste to create 10 outfits: 5 proportional and 5 disproportional. Our lecturer also did a demonstration of both manual and digital cut and paste for us to get a better idea.