I was just searching through some images on my computer and found a collection of images that I saved a year or so ago from http://thecuttingclass.com/. They feature images from the Alexander McQueen Spring 2010 RTW Collection alongside the print lay that the garments have been cut from. This allows you to have an inside peek into how placement prints work which I found incredibly fascinating and relevant to my design practice. I have only ever been taught one way of creating a placement print which involves scanning in your pattern pieces and tracing them out then creating the print within the piece. These Alexander McQueen images present a new technique where you still outline the pattern pieces however you create the print in a rectangle around the pattern piece whilst keeping in mind the shape of the pattern.
These images are a great source for understanding placement prints and their relationship to the body. I am still unsure as to what detail I will be exploring placement prints however this is another way of which to understand them and look at mirrored prints in a non obvious way.
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Great research, very helpful!
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