Cutting Projects

The Cutting Project was a project assigned to me whilst studying my second year at the University of Westminster. I decided to base my project initially on the idea of palaeontology / looking at the stegosaur, a dinosaur which seemingly had self-protective spikes. I then began to look into the theme of self protection and decided that the garment / outcome would be an outer wear piece, of which could be visible if worn in the night time- (i.e.-a garment which women could feel safe / protected in if walking home alone at night, due to the reflective silver material). I dismantled an entire tent in my bedroom, which I bought from somebody who was selling it second hand on the interned. The coat is made from 3 layers of up-cycled fabric (the middle one of which was actually a second hand faux leather to keep the stiffness of the fabric).

I kept with the theme of spikes in my contstruction, re-creating the pattern of a 'trench coat' into an outer wear piece with a much more rigid /. geometric structure.