James Hackett

Testing some colourways

Catching up on uploading the days I missed.  Creole inspired.

More croquis sketching

From my sketchbook working on thesis collection.

Started working with some awesome paper given to me by my friend Cecilia. This is from a class project but I have some plans  cooking up for them. Bejeweled paisley and ting watch meh flexing!

We have an ongoing project at school this semester working with established designers in the field. We chose a topic based beforehand and we found out who our designer was a week later.

I am working with Zadd and Eastman (Nigel Eastman) who will oversee our concepts from start to finish and critique etc as we exectute. I have survived round one, which involved showing my sketches, fabric and colour story. It is going to be very Project runway like. Should be fun!

So I finished my 3rd actual complete garment over the weekend. Construction classes are starting to get intense and I am seeing my sewing deficiencies showing through. I am proud however of what I was able to finish. Something blue, something comic/video game inspired and urban. These are the kind of clothing I hope to make.

I have more or less gotten over my troubles at the beginning of the semester, it is still tough, still got things to deal with but I am finding my direction with each step. This piece was inspired by the blue beetle. Next week for corsets I am feeling wonder woman. Wish me luck!

September rolled around and I expected this wave of confidence and a triumphant return to my art world. I was so wrong. I found myself second guessing a lot of my work and doubting the quality of everything I do.

In trying to figure what was happening I sat back and bit and tried to slow things down, I drove myself into a more humble state ( a personal criticism that I put on myself). I realise that entering fashion year 3 I am now in a position where I feel at a crossroads, watching what I was able to do as an artist in the past and realising that I am about to enter new territory. This time it is harder work than I have done before where anything new I learned seemed effortless,  these new abilities and skills I am trying to acquire is more challenging than anything that I have taken on before.

It is a bit scary because I can’t just “wing it”. I have to go all in, it is a devotion and a passion I must unlock even more that I always reserved for pockets  of various interests of mine, but those have only gotten me so far. Now it is about commitment and me taking the plunge to do what I must to fully benefit from this decision to do fashion.

Fashion week started here in Trinidad. They have a theme called Magenta I am looking forward to seeing what they have put forward for this year. I wanted to do my apocalypse  thing now but my friend Kayode did such a great job with the writing I need to push it back so I can do some more work instead of sketches on the artwork for it. I am kind of excited.

This is part of a little project I am working on for the end of the month. I will detail more about it when I have a 3d version of it but it’s coming.