How does your garden grow?

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BBC motion gallery, Buffalo Botanical Gardens, Dior, Draping, flowers, gardens, Giverny, Marchesa, Monet, Suzhou, Tadashi Shoji, Textile View, Versailles

Be inspired by flowers of all kinds from the English country garden to the hanging gardens of Babylon… As Spring beckons visit Buffalo Botanical Gardens; prepare to be surprised when you take a nano-view at the flowers. Look for interesting three-dimensional forms and collect images that inspire fashionable draped designs. You are designing a draped gown for Spring/Summer 2013 so be mindful of trends in fabric, colour and silhouette.

Virtually visit other inspiring gardens; Monet‘s garden at Giverny, The Humble Adminstrator‘s garden at Suzhou, Vita Sackville-West‘s white garden at Sissinghurst, the palace gardens at Versailles….

Make a flower-themed moodboard. Prepare a full-size drape in muslin. Construct in your chosen fashion fabric. Draw a fashion illustration of your final design.