Donnerstag, 30. April 2015

My Design on the Runway: Show Off - Off Show

My draped 'Trinity Dress' out of mold from the 2nd semester was part of the MD.H catwalk in January. The show was set in 'Haus der Kunst' in Munich.
The presentation of the mold dresses from my year was designed pure and plain going with the fabrics: the models were barefooted and pure made up.
Here you can read details about my dress.

Model: Julia Frank
Photography: George A. Rauscher
Design: Anna Wiendl

Above you see me (2nd in the row) beeing on the catwalk as a designer at the end of the show. 
Below is the link to watch the whole fashion show, seeing my dress in motion and also various designs from pupils of different years of the "Mediadesign Hochschule München":


Montag, 27. April 2015

First Photoshop Experiences [2nd semester]


During the 2nd semester we started using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
We searched for some pictures on the net and used own images we had drawn.
Then we put them together in one: morphing, cutting or setting them in a special effect.
Here some of the results








Donnerstag, 23. April 2015

First Draped Dress [2nd semester]










TRINITY DRESS

During the Draping Class in the 2nd semester, the task was to create a garment out of the basic geometric forms: squares, triangles and circles were gathered, pleated or cut in order to shape the dress.
This is sewn out of mold an untreated, raw cotton. Usally mold is used for draping, because it’s a cheap material.
In this case the focus should be on the design itself and not on color or structure of material. So the colorless, plain woven cotton suits perfectly, that the design isn’t distracted.
Here we are: the design
The skirt consists of nine triangles wich were pleated symmetrically.
Two of those pleated traingles are also on the front upper part. The back stands in contrast to all the clear pleats: There is a fluffy cloudy voluminos triangle.
All in all you can compare this contradiction to a holy image of Jesus: The pleats symbolise the halo, the cloudy back stands for the clouds where Jesus comes from and still lives.













Model: Jessica Klausner
Photographer: Philipp Omuro
Design & Image Processing: Anna Wiendl

Montag, 20. April 2015

Englishproject: World of Fashion in the Future [3rd semester]



The slides explain the designs of my fellow student and me.
We imagined how the ‘Fashiondesign-World’ will look like in the future.
The scenario ‘patwork planet’ is all about a world in hostilty and how the seperated regions deal with war and ressource shortages.

Have fun watching.

Anna Wiendl & Vanessa Bärnthol
Mediadesignhochschule München
3rd semester

Sonntag, 19. April 2015

MINDCONTROL first collection: finished clothing [3rd semester]


MINDCONTROL part[II]

...after patternmaking, draping and sewing the clothing my latest collection was finished.
I decided to only use simple colors: black, white and darkblue. And here are the results:

These photos were taken during the "end-of-semester-presentation" in university. A "real" photoshoot will take place during next month.












Design: Anna Wiendl
Photography: Anna Wiendl



MINDCONTROL first collection: designprocess [3rd semester]

MINDCONTROL

Last semester (3rd one) was all about realizing and developing our first own collection out of one general topic.
This was the reference to a film.

I picked “Shutter Island” and this is my concept:

MOODBOARD:MINDCONTROL
„Eat!” the uniformed man told you. You are starring at the silver dog bowl in front of you. The mash is like wallpaper paste – not only optically. You have to eat up everything, without any contradictions. The bowl has to be empty. As every day. If you are defending, you would have to suffer. Eating it up obediently you’re allowed to go back into your cell. Being alone.
Alone – but only until they’re going to see you there. In their hands: cigarettes, knifes, baseball bats. The physical pain is not everything they are doing to you. Even more hurtful are their words. Cold and demeaning. They tell you that you deserve it all. You have to pay for everything you did. They smile on you, preventing that you don’t do something like that again. You are mentally ill, they tell you. Disturbed.
However you can’t remember. Your memory is nearly empty. You did nothing wrong? Always been of a good character, weren’t you? Slowly you are starting to believe that you really deserve it. Why else should they do this things to you?




Thoughts and memories is the probably valuable asset a human being owns. Untouchable and secret, for no one accessible. The human mind controls everything. Even pain occurs in your head. But is the brain that secure and untouchable?
Mentally diseased people should get help. For them it is desirable that you have access to their thoughts. This would mean healing.

This thought of controlling peoples’ minds is an idea existing for centuries. During the Middle Ages exorcism has the aim to get evil demons out of the body.
Doctors of modern ages were convinced mentally diseased could be healed by ice bathes and electricity.
In the 1950s lobotomy is growing popular – a treatment where an iron bar is inserted through the eye or the skullcap in order to cut diseased synapsis in the brain. This method is not often the healing. If the wrong synapsis is damaged humans get even more insane than before.
However, when is your mind „sick“? What makes you mad? Is it possible to manipulate your brain and delete memories or to create psychopaths intentionally?
In this connection there have already been researches. Especially in concentration camps during World War II doctors experimented with human minds. This yield knowledge was passed to the American secret service. “Operation artichoke” this program from the CIA was called, making supposed double agents speak, deleting their memories to get them on their side. How? With drugs, tortures and hypnosis in different variations.

Now what is the truth? What is hallucination and who tells us that we are not all insane?

These questions ran through my head while creating my clothing.
The designs developed with doing collages and using oilcolors afterwards. Here some of my process:





The basis of sticking collages are pictures. I had to find images showing exactly what I want to express with my clothing.
For me MINDCONTROL means that free, complex and independant thoughts are locked from plain and straight simplicity.
Accordingly I picked my pictures showing exactly this contrasts.
After this collage process I abstracted the outline in order to get the silhouette and shape of clothing.


These inspirations were the first and important steps in developing my own design.
As a result I created 5 outfits, consisting out of 11 pieces:



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