During the early stages of development, I have created some fashion sketches that would eventually lead to me creating the specific clothing in Marvelous Designer. My main intentions with these clothing designs was to provide structure and rigidness in clothing – I have done this by utilising techniques such as colour blocking and sillhouette mapping. I have focused on creating a collection of outfits that emphasize utility, potential for failure during movement, a sense of false safety, and clothing that could allow a socially anxious individual to feel safer in the moment. The concept of “failure during movement” was something that I gravitated towards the most during the design process, and the meaning behind it is physical failure, garment malfunction, physical restriction, and social judgement. Therefore, I have incorporated elements such as undone shoelaces, clothing with unevenly distributed pressure on the body, pieces of fabric that could get caught onto the environment and glasses that can either enhance vision or impair it, depending on the individual.

This element of the process eventually became more experimental when translating the illustrations into three-dimensional garments. As my previous design experience was primarily based around character design and communication design rather than fashion, the initial sketches focused heavily on sillhouette and visual identity rather than realistic garment construction. Working in Marvelous Designer forced me to consider how these shapes could actually be constructed from two-dimensional patterns, fit around the body and respond to movement and gravity. Some elements of the original sketches therefore changed considerably during the production. Rather than simply viewing these differences in design processes purely as unsuccessful adaptations