Week 6 - Reflection on the Presentation

This week we presented our work we did for last week.  After listening to the comments from Ms. Debra to all the groups, I felt that there are a few things we could have done better. 

•  We should have taken note of the prices of the garments so that we can compare the price with the other brands. Most importantly, we can study the relationship between the price and the finishing, quality or details of the garment so that we understand why the garment is priced that expensively.
• We should have made use of what we learned in Cultural Context. For example, we can actually compare certain design or detail of a garment to similar ones in the baroque or rococo era. We can also name certain details that are actually adaptations from the past and identify the person who made it famous. 

Eg.

This is a Miu Miu bomber jacket and it is unique as most bomber jacket has a ribbed collar but this bomber jacket has a semi-spread collar.  

Miu Miu Bomber Jacket

Amelia Earhart in her Bomber Jacket

After that, we can actually go ahead and share more interesting infomations like the bomber jacket is actually first made famous by Amelia Mary Earhart who was an American aviation pioneer and author. She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She always wears the bomber jacket and since people looked up to her at that time, they eventually followed her style of dressing.

One of the group also mentioned about the eschelle, a series of bows down the center front of a garment.

Meadham Kirchhoff SS13

This is actually a style brought back or adapted from the Rococo period. The échelle or eschelle was a series of bows tied down the front of the stomacher, decreasing in size from the neck to the waist in that period. This style was introduced by French trendsetter Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), the mistress of French King Louis XV (1710–1774), and was quickly copied throughout Europe as part of a gown style called robe à la française. It is also seen on the dress of Marie Antoinette.

robe à la française

 Madame de Pompadour

 Marie Antoinette

I guess that's the example how we should have applied what we have learned from other modules in our presentation.

• We should make full use of the resources(WGSN, Library Books) we have and utilize them in our work. For example, one group actually made use of the information on WGSN in their presentation to talk about the Spring/Summer 2017 trending color scheme. At the same time, they compared it to the colors of the garment they had seen in the store of the brand they were researching on.

There is so much more we can do to improve on our presentation. We could have been more flexible and creative. We could have taken into consideration many other things that are related to what we are presenting in order to make our presentation more interesting and informative.