TEXTILES 2 – UPPER KEY STAGE 2

SKILL / SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES / ARTISTS
WORKS OF ART / VOCABULARY / CURRICULUM LINKS / RECOMMENDED MATERIALS
To enhance the pupil’s ability to generate design from a specific design brief and produce an end product, adapting and modifying where necessary. / This activity will take 2/3hours ~ same day.
Split class into groups of 4/5.
Give them their design brief ~ to design / make a Victorian lady’s dress using plastic dustbin sacks and bin bags.
Show a range of prints, photographs etc. of Victorian ladies’ clothing and ask the groups to select a picture of a dress that they would like to make. When this has been done ask the pupils to select one of the pupils in their group to be the model.
Explain to the pupils that many of our most famous couturiers have been men ~
Christian Dior, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Versace etc.
+ famous women ~ Coco Chanel, Vivienne Westwood, Mary Quant, Stella McCartney etc.
Ask the children to make simple sketches/designs, using the pictures as a stimulus + take the measurements of their model.
Limit each group to 4 dustbin sacks / 4 bin bags each.
Groups will select one design to make on their model.
Models should wear PE shorts + vest type t-shirt.Photographs should be taken throughout this session and at the end, when the models should parade along the ‘cat walk’ for the whole class to see.Dresses should then be cut (by an adult) carefully down the middle back and displayed as part of the Victorian display. / Fashion designers ~ 19th / 20th/ 21st Century

Coco Chanel

Vivienne Westwood
Christian Dior
Versace
Jean – Paul Gaultier
Mary Quant
Stella McCartney
Jean Muir / Fashion
Trends
Designers
Design brief
Couturier
Model
Stimulus/stimuli
Measurements
‘Cat Walk’ / Victorians
Materials
Fashion / Parent Helpers
Books of Fashion designers
Photographs, pictures of Victorian clothes
Black plastic dustbin liners
White plastic bin liners ~ various sizes
Sellotape
White / black card
White paper doilies
Scissors
Measuring tapes
Sketchbooks
Camera