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Final Fashion Piece

Fashion Week 

For my fashion week item, I mainly gained inspiration off Jess’ unpleasant scent (Wine) and my pleasant scent (Medical Halls). What I found interesting was that Jess’ unpleasant scent actually smelled pleasant to me, hence I wanted to try and incorporate the 2 scents to create a more positive image.

Wine to me:

My part of the collection – Glove

Final  Piece:

Reflections:

Our collection was modelled by Jess’ friend, Rachel Ng. She did a wonderful job of modelling our pieces.  It was really fun to be teamed up with Jess as fashion is her strong point and as a collaborative effort, I felt that we managed to pull off our Mnemosyne project really well.

 

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Mnemosyne Plastic Scent Model

Front View

Side View 

Back View

 

  • The plastic model is a combination of my pleasant (medical hall) and unpleasant scents (tea tree oil). 

 

  • I modelled the (D) and (SO) after my pleasant scent.
    • The overall shape of the (D) is round and curls inwards as round shapes are often associated as being soft and friendly, like how I would feel towards the scent of medical halls.  I remember eating lots of lotus roots in the herbal soups that my grandma would make for me, hence I modelled the (D) after the slightly bulbous shape of the lotus root. 

      ^Lotus Root for reference

    • I would also eat lots of Huai Shan, a type of Chinese yam, in the soups my mum would prepare. Hence, I modelled the (SO) after the round pieces of Huai Shan. I pierced and wedged some of them together as I wanted to convey that idea of layering, just like in chinese medicine where they would layer different herbs together to treat the patient. 

^ Huai Shan for reference

  • For the (SD), I modelled it after my unpleasant scent as tea tree oil has a sharp and strong scent that would hurt your nose when you smell it too closely, hence, my (SD) is tapered from sharp (tip) to wide (middle) and sharp again, to imitate that idea.