This blog post is regarding my Production Inputs assignment for my Fashion Industry Essentials course with Parsons. This assignment asks us to create a fabric card with fabrics inspired by one of our mood boards. I chose to do a fabric card from the Summer '93 mood board I did. The mood board was inspired by things that reminded me of '93, which happens to be the year I was born. I know what you're thinking "How is '93 hippie?". Thing is I don't really know anything that happened back in '93 cause I practically was sleeping the whole time, and I was barely a year old, so I wouldn't count on even my sharpest neuron to give me just a vague memory of '93. But when I was looking at one of our family's photo albums I saw loads of pictures of me and my maternal uncle who passed away a few months after my first birthday.
My uncle's name was Reinzie, and he was my mom's favorite sibling, and judging by the photos I was his favorite nephew. I saw that we went to an amusement park, with every photo of him included me in his arms, hence the shirt the ferris wheel. Another photo of him had him playing the old Nintendo family computer with me enclosed in his legs as both of our eyes were transfixed to the tv set, hence the laptop and the cellphone because I'm sure that if he was still alive today he'd be even more into technology than I am. I also included donuts and fashion magazines as he, according to my mom, would love to eat and read magazines. And the polaroids are there as my uncle loved taking photos.
Being the ultimate hippie, my uncle loved to dress up in stuff that were very much representative of the 60's. So I chose fabrics and patterns that were probably worn by the hippies back in the 60's. I got my swatches from Moods online store, as the fabric shops in the Philippines didn't allow free samples of their fabrics. I got suede, chiffons, lame, fur, and silk and I plan to construct them into billowy tops with pussybows and a-line suede skirts that will have hems falling just above the knee, for that nostalgic look.
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