This section includes design work that was completed for different presentation opportunities and classes.
One in All, All in One
2023 / Spring & Summer
Role:
Co-Designer
Date:
Spring & Summer 2023
Design Goals
This dress was designed as a standalone piece in a collaborative textile design collection focused on axolotls and their regeneration, in collaboration with the chemistry department at Central Michigan University. The dress has a modified jabara pattern. A shawl was created for the design from a textile based on images from the axolotl study, leading to its inclusion in the renamed art exhibition – Beauty of Regeneration – which toured throughout Michigan. A laser cutter was used throughout the garment’s creation, enabling the no-sew piecing of the shawl. Prior to its display in Beauty of Regeneration, this design was selected for the 2023 ITAA Design Exhibition.
Just Peachy
2023 / Spring
Role:
Designer
Date:
Spring 2023
Design Goals
This collection aimed to create a fun and flirty set of garments that embodied the southern charm and sass that is typically heard in the statement of “Just Peachy.” Each piece was created to represent a feminine silhouette and feature while maintaining unexpected elements such as a latex feature or being completely backless.
Business and Pleasure
2022 / Threads
Role:
Designer
Date:
Spring 2022
Design Goals
One of my greatest fears is having to give up a portion of myself when I go into the workplace. Dress has been a part of my identity since my childhood and it is a way to express myself. Business and Pleasure was created to give a playful set of garments that play with volume and the ability to change the look to continue its wear from 9-5 to 9-5am. I know that sometimes when you don’t feel like you belong it is hard to take up space, but this collection was created to show the wearer that they can take the space that they deserve and feel confident in it.
Collections
2020 / Fall
Role:
Designer
Date:
Fall 2020
Design Goals
This class focused on the creation of a collection using the skills that the designers have learned throughout their fundamental classes. The collection I created works to combine draping and flat patterning. I wanted to play with different mediums for these garments, adding in grommets and chain as well as boning to create structure in the black and white garment.
Advanced Draping
2021 / Spring
Role:
Designer
Date:
Spring 2021
Design Goals
The designs created in this class were focused on the use of more advanced draping skills as well as learning different methods for design. Subtraction cutting was used for the design above as a project to understand a sustainable way that some use to pattern. Other than patterning methods, the use of technology was apparent in the creation of the work in this class. A scanner was used to digitize patterns before they were transferred and edited to be used on a laser cutter.
One design, Blue Waves, was later entered in the Axolotls and the Beauty of Regeneration Exhibition and displayed to the public at Central Michigan University.
Leslee Jayne 