Many endangered animals are forced into the illegal wildlife trade because of their rarity and economic value. They are held in tight cages for long periods of time and are deprived of their natural habitat. From this idea we crafted our studio title: Stuck. From this we thought about how we wanted to represent the poor habitat of the animal. We wanted a dress that symbolized a cage and a tight environment. The dress we made features these elements and while still a beautiful dress. Our thought process was that since animals are trapped by their own beauty, we made the dress to do the same thing. On lookers just admire the beauty of the spots of the dress, but do not even think about how the person wearing the dress feels. 

Problem Slide:

Many endangered animals are forces into the illegal wildlife trade because of their rarity and economic value. They are held in tight cages for long periods of time and are deprived ot their natural habitat.

Solution Slide:

We created a dress which represents how caged animals feel...uncomfortable, vulnerable, trapped, and unnatural.

Precedents:

For precedents we included a picture of a woman wearing a tight dress and a picture of giraffes from the side, showing their pattern.

Sketches:

We included two pages of sketches, the first being the earliest ones. The middle page is a  pattern from Rhino that we modeled off a giraffe's pattern. We used Rhino to trace a pattern and offset each line by a little bit to create space in between the blocks of the pattern.

Iteration 1:

Our first iteration features a brown piece of fabric with laser cut cardboard pieces of the giraffe pattern glued on to it.

Iteration 2:

Our second iteration was a new design. We used two halves of the dress instead of one uniform piece of fabric. We also added "bridges" to connect the two sides of the dress.

Iteration 3:

Our third iteration was a improvement of iteration 2. Instead of paper, we used black fabric. We replaced the paper bridges with laser cut thin wood pieces and 3d printet brackets.