Imagine If... | Look I

It's official!  BA degree ✔

"Imagine If..." is the title of my collection and here you can read the concept

and idea behind the design.

Furthermore I present the first outfit, consisting of flared trousers and a blouse with trimmings, embroidery and lots of glitter ✨.

The Womenswear FW 17/18 Collection „Imagine If…” is dealing with the relationship between Elvis and Priscilla Presley. It analyses the origin of their feelings for each other and the developing solidarity between them. Having the roots already in childhood where Priscilla is imagining that she will marry Elvis Presley, the wedding grows an aim to achieve in her life. It’s not all about a “fairy tale relationship”: Priscilla is abandoned in Graceland while Elvis is following his career in the world of Hollywood. A contrast between the life of a star and his good wife at home.

The design itself is oriented towards Elvis stage dresses embodying a world of freedom and joy, the world Priscilla is dreaming about. Instead Priscilla is trapped with her childish fantasies for Elvis. Pretending to be the good wife for him: humble, reserved and virgin. 

 

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Photography: Sophie Wanninger

Model: Christine Kramer Reisswitz

H&M: Sabrina Reuschl

TOYS - Outfit 1

 

My collection of the 5th semester is all about TOYs, seperated into two sections: 

sportswear and ready-to-wear for the S/S17 season.

This sweater and the shorts are the first outfit of the sportswear part.

The patches are inspired by old tin toys, converted into motifs out of sequins and pearls.

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Photography: Sophie Wanninger Photography

H&M: Tamara Ricarda Hair & Make Up
Model: Lisa Lila

16-19-21 | Baroque Revisted - The Concept [4th semester]

 The Inspiration & Historical Background the Collection is Based On

 

16-19-21 describes three centuries of different epochs with different clothing styles. But there’s one garment linking the three aerias: The 'Schaube'.
For decades it was the dress of powerful rulers or councilors, and today it is reinterpreted, merged with current trends.
Originally worn in the Orient, the 'Schaube' developed to ­rulers’ robes in the 15th century representing influence, wealth and power. The coat has an oversize, square shape. Compressing the voluminous fabric on the backside the cloth is eased in with a special technique. The length of the robe is linked with the wealth of the owner. However, if you can afford more of the expensive material the 'Schaube' reaches to the ankles, for the richer middle class it is only knee long. Sleeves of the coat changed with the trends during the ages. So puffed sleeves developed or sleeves are even losing their functional meaning. Out of the armhole a so called 'fake sleeve', which is only a stripe, is hanging down next to the body.
Over time the 'Schaube' is more and more getting out of fashion but keeps its‘ representative functions: Since the 17th century it was solely worn by councilors. Combined with a white neck brace and a black pleated hat they represented the interests of their towns.
Nowadays the shape of the 'Schaube' can be rediscovered in gowns of judges and graduates.
The collection Baroque revisited is based on two original ‚Schaube‘s from the Bavarian National museum. They date back to the 16th and 19th century and are both set­ with ­borders.

Besides the inspirations from the ancient coat, the collection is based on the aesthetics from the baroque period. As you can extract from baroque artwork the moved silhouette from the times are created with gathered cloth. Draped skirts and the layering of different material complete the pompous look. Accessories play an important role: socks out of silk, wigs and towering hair fixed with bands.
The dynamic, floating and floral look from baroque is ­corresponding­ to the feeling of the collection. Elements of the decade and of the 'Schaube' are used and set in a new ­context. So e.g. borders are redefined with tulle and the print assumes the dynamic and vivid feeling of baroque artwork.
The Spring/Summer Collection consists out of 46 garments,­­­
six of them are shown in this booklet:   waistcoats and 3 trousers.


With the modern silhouette of the collection it refers to the times of the 'Schaube': Oversized on the upper body and a slim and straight fit on the legs. The volume of the garment is created through pleats or volants, this gives a floating and moving ease to the clothing. With bright colors and the silver shining surface of the cloth the collections transmits a feeling of summer. The romantic look turns the past fashion elements into a playful but contemporary ­reinterpretation.

Extract from my Lookbook

First Impressions from Yesterday's Fashionshow

 

Not yet finished with the whole baroque inspired collection, we presented our so far sewn clohing in the Nationalmuseum in Munich. My design is the vest-dress (on the right) and the border-trousers (on the right) It was such a great success and the clothes of each of us looked so good together.

I am looking foreward to showing more pictures of the event.

New Collection inspired from Baroque

16|19|21
Barock Revisited

In cooperation with the bavarian Nationalmuseum our fashiondesign class is doing a collection together. Inspired from Baroque and a jacket from Renaissance called tabard we are developing a modern and fresh interpretation of clothing.
The two tabards we inspected were originally preserved from the 16th and 19th century.
You experience so much inspiration and new aesthetics looking in detail on ancient clothing.

The picture above shows my moodboard.

A selection of clothes are shown at the summer festival of the museum
on July, 11 on a romantic runway.
http://newsroom.mediadesign.de/projekte/161921-barock-revisited/

http://www.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de/index.php?id=47&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[day]=11&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1212 

Can't wait to finish and present the clothing.
Stay in touch!

Drawing Class: Drapery [1st semester]

During the 1st semester we had a lot of drawing lessons. One of the first course was about learning drawing different materialities and fall of cloths,
For drawing drapery in different shades I used a soft and a hard pencil. You see the final selection of my artworks.

MINDCONTROL: Outfit4

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Model: Marliyn Mongo
Photography: Anna Wiendl
Design: Anna Wiendl

MINDCONTROL: Outfit3

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Model: Marliyn Mongo
Photography: Anna Wiendl
Design: Anna Wiendl

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.

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

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

Vanessa Bärnthol Anna Wiendl 2015 Patchwork Planet from Phoenix-English Communications

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

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: