Visceral Threads is an on-going project that consists in creating garments sourced from my expressive interpretation of locations and cultures. Physically exploring different locations of LA county and encountering their local habitants to create garments as a reflections of my depiction of the location based on what I interpreted from viscerally depicting the habitants.
Panorama City is the second city of the project. I started the exploration by visiting the central-city indoor Sunday market, where I met a heavily hispanic abundant feel of family and rencor as i entered the market, full of vendors and merchants, families having the treat of the weekend, lone cowboys wandering around, and old friends and family permanently hanging around. The indoor space was such a radical difference from the outside, as If it was everybody that was there's break from the outside, the heavy and fast-paced American system. The comfort and tranquile inside provided comfort and point of relaxation.
This is the reason I wanted to create a reversible work jacket, have both environments/spaces co-existing in one same object, while also reflecting two opposite extremes.
The tranquile, and the fast-paced.
Construction of all patchwork pieces together
ReversLasser engraved designsed jacket
Lasser engraved designs
Lasser engraved designs
Layered effect
Lasser engraved designs
INSPIRATION
Screen-printed graphics directly reference each of the subjects studied at Panorama City
Controversial moment of the 2014 World Cup, 9 years later, shows how important soccer integrity is for Mexico
Roger, the well known incognito man
Bendito, the heritage stance
Paulo, the simple polyvalent man
John, the show man, entertainer, routine charisma
Proud love, each to their own respect
The inspiration of the print was the characters I encountered.
The inspiration of the grid was the grid in which all the characters were coexisting along the vendors
The inspiration behind the patchwork was the stressed fast-pace from the American industry
Process
Collection of hundreds denim, indigo, and variation cut fabrics
Working station
Sewing initial pieces together
Sewn together in 'blocks'
Color blocking patchwork
Contrastic details
Recycling denim for pattern pieces
Main body pieces
Design symbolizing the consitancy of the people coming to the Panorama city mall every weekend
Design burnt into the coated screen
Screen printed design on denim
Final cutout piece
Sewing more patchwork pieces together
Adding the patchwork into the front body pieces
Colo grading from blues to more radiant colo
Drafting pieces together
Finalized back piece
Sewing together front and back pieces together
Testing fit
Cutting sleeve pieces
Attaching sleeve to body pieces
Sleeve fitting
Sleeve fitting
Resin-poured gems inspired by Panorama City
Sewing right sleeve together
Fitting right sleeve
Fitting right sleeve
Fitting back piece
Adobe Illustrator design of reversed jacket
Laser engraved designs
Laser engraved design element of Panorama City house star
Design elements burnt into coated screen
Screen printed designs on Duck canvas
Layering the screen-printed canvas under the front pieces
Creating grid to overlay the main back piece
Both layers together
Screen printing into base layer
Sewing both layers together
Drafting pieces together
Fitting of jacket before adding sleeves in
Fitting of jacket
Side view
