For this Monday meeting we were supposed to bring print and design developments . Some team members successfully did that , while some team members didn't bother to show and we had to face time them . We were supposed to come with 25 relevant designs , the majority of us succeeded into doing that, they had very little design proposals , that looked scribbled in a rush . Whatsoever i was very pleased with the work people that were involved did and i was looking forward our presentation to the tutors on Wednesday.
On Wednesday stuff got shaken a bit . Our presentation to our tutors was not coherent and you could see in the discrepancies in the work that people in the group were not getting along . Because of the entire Impressionism / Surrealism debate we were spending more time into arguing with each other than coming to a point .
I was getting frustrated at the situation as I enjoyed working with my team members , and the entire concept debate was actually just masking a character debate. People in my group have strong characters and everyone wants to take the lead even tho they don't understand what it involves . As a spokesman it got really hard to try to talk to everyone and understand what is going on . Our tutors proposed a split , which i was against , because they didn't have actual insight into what is happening in our group it was hard for them to see that the split its happening because some people worked very individualistic and they didn't care much about group work and the others we're very dependent and didn't have any initiative. We decided that our resort Collection was going to separate into Resort Evening and Resort Day wear. I was not happy at all about this . Truthfully the entire drama in our group was generated by one team member and by the fact tht some people refused to work with others/
The solution to our problems was to find a middle ground in the movie ,,Midnight in Paris'' , we hoped our mix of concepts would be able to recreate the narrative of the movie . We went from proposing an ,,Escape to the Coast'' scenario to an ,,Escape to the Gallery" one .Our tutors told us not to be very concerned about the internal split in our group as the color pallet was going to bring the collection together.The split meant only one thing for me , tht now instead of meeting with one group i had to meat with 2 different ones , in order to ensure that we are all up to date with what is happening and to make sure we are all on the same page . A waist of my time , but i didn't min that much because it meant we were finally working and not arguing
Anyhow , our intentions were to provide the Coast customers with a collection that is going to make them fell that they are escaping their busy life and jobs and they are enveloped by a sense of freedom and fantasy.
I brought to the table around 45 designs and fabric print developments , pulling my weight and more than that , I have been part of the patter cutting and trouser manufacturing workshops and i have started my Report . Overall , I am happy with my evolution within the group , i didn't think that from all people I am going to be the one that gives in personal opinion and ideas for the sake of the group.
For our next group meting we had to redeveloped design proposals and prints .We were thinking to integrate the idea of animal inspired prints as well.
First Design Proposals
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