For this midterm project, I decided to create a raincoat made out of 100% umbrella material. When I was struggling to find a wearable project to focus on, I tried to look at some inspirations online that maybe I will be able to do. However, when Marcela mentioned that it could also be an art statement as well, I started thinking more about an abstract piece.
When I was think of what to create, I realized that I wanted to focus on the strength of plastic. Though I know how badly plastics are harming this planet, I also knew that plastic was created for a reason. Qualities like strength, flexibility, durability, and being waterproof are just some of the strong aspect of plastic. Therefore, I wanted to focus on these strengths and demonstrate some positive aspects of plastic.
I was going through some inspirations on pintrest, google images, and google search and I came across a raincoat that was made out of ikea bags. So I thought to myself, one of the strongest quality of plastic is that it is waterproof. Therefore, I wanted to make a wearable out of plastic that can be able to showcase its waterproof quality so I decided to make a raincoat.
Originally, I wanted to create a raincoat made out of plastic bags and while I was talking to Ben about the idea, he suggested for me to use a material that could really make a kind of statement. So I thought about it and realized that umbrellas are also made out of plastics and they have the same purpose as well. And normally when umbrella are broken, the plastic piece are still usable but people just throw them out. So I wanted to used umbrella materials to create a raincoat out of it.
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