I have overcome a lot of difficulties whilst knitting dresses for the Michael Kidner project. One of the major problems has been measurements, as the dresses are not the exact silhouettes I anticipated.
This has resulted in me having to tweak the dresses slightly in order to be wearable, the first dress I knitted was the most problematic.
Left: Original Design | Right: Final Outcome
Although knitting the dresses has been challenging, I have really enjoyed making garments throughout unit X, it has resulted in me gaining confidence in this area of knitted textiles, and has also led to me improving my skills on Design a Knit software.
To show my dresses to an audience, I organised for professional photographs to be taken of the garments being modelled. As the dresses are bold and colourful, I felt the shoot didn't need any styling, I wanted to keep it simple at let the 60's style dresses be the focus.
Photoshoot Research
Overall I am really pleased with the professional images. Organising for a professional photographer to take the images allowed me to see the shoot from different angles, adjust the garments and give direction to the models. I got these photographs professionally printed in order to give a high quality finish.
Final Photographs from shoot
