Download one of SHOWstudio's seven exclusive design_download patterns and create your own unique version. A selection of the most accomplished interpretations will be displayed as part of SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution.
Alexander McQueen
From one of the world's foremost fashion designers comes the third in our series of downloadable garments. Alexander McQueen allows us to examine and assemble his pattern for a beautiful kimono-inspired jacket from the Autumn/Winter 2003 collection. The brutally sharp tailoring, for which this label is synonymous, is seen in the jacket’s strong linear construction and carefully layered fabric sections. A collision of Western Victoriana and Eastern traditional dress, this garment, like so much of McQueen’s work, references historical detailing, whilst remaining quintessentially modern.
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Instructions
- Download 1 of the 7 design_download patterns
- Make up the garment using your fabric of choice.
- Style and photograph the garment. Send pictures (no more than 3) along with your name and location to designdownload@showstudio.com. Please send images in '.jpg' format, no larger than 1MB.
Closing date is 31 August 2009
Entries will be judged by a panel of fashion experts including Nick Knight, Alistair O'Neill (Senior Lecturer & Senior Research Fellow of Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design) Penny Martin (Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion Imagery at the London College of Fashion) and Claire Catterall (Curator at Somerset).
Prize
The winning garments will be featured in SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution at Somerset House 18 September - 20 December 2009.