Fashion Designs
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Ember
Unconventional Textiles
Ember is a dress made entirely out of pipe cleaners, gift ribbon, craft feathers, string beads, tissue paper, and wax cord knotted together and attached to a fabric lining. This project was a study in the development and creation of unconventional textiles using non-textile objects. By using these objects of varying texture, color, and shape, a unique and luxurious textile pair was created.
Inspiration used to develop and create a design made out of unconventional textiles (pipecleaners, feathers, tissue paper, ribbon, and waxed cord) emphasizing the contrast between the bright colored chaos and the neutral simplicity. This photo is not owned by Alexandra Blair.
"The Wind" painting by Hans Hofmann was used as the main inspiration to create the hand painted, beaded, and embroidered fashion piece. Inspiration was taken from the use of lines and neutral colors to create a piece that resembled Hofmann's style.
The back of the final Inversion garment.
Inversion
Surface Design
ITAA Conference Nomination
Inversion began as a white satin shift dress. By combining various surface design techniques such as hand painting, hand embroidery, machine embroidery, paint resist, beading, and contrasting fabric circles, a complex and intriguing design was created.
Yellow Light
Color Study
The first project of Alexandra Blair's time at the Wilson College of Textiles, Yellow Light is a canvas circle skirt hand painted with Shiva oil paint sticks. By using resist techniques, color combinations, and stenciling, the light and fun design simultaneously blends in and stands out from it's natural background.
The final finished circle skirt design hand painted using Shiva Oil Paintsticks on a white cotton duck material.
This lighthouse photograph was taken by Alexandra Blair and was used as inspiration to develop a color palette and design of a circle skirt.
The final finished circle skirt design hand painted using Shiva Oil Paintsticks on a white cotton duck material.