About Me
Hi I'm Jazmine a BA (Hons) Fashion graduate.
Jazmine Mitchener is a fashion designer specialising in women's and menswear, creating feminine silhouettes and aesthetics. She focuses on how her clients feel when wearing her designs, aiming to evoke empowerment, freedom, individuality, and strength.
My designs are based on traditional tailoring techniques, which I uniquely adapt to redefine tailoring. I combine the strength of clean tailoring with soft, light fabrics, particularly tulle, enhancing the feminine aspects of my work, adding movement and depth to my garments. My design process involves a deep connection and collaboration with her audience to translate emotions and feelings into her creations.
INSPIRATION
Happy Hour
My graduate collection is a women's and menswear Spring Summer collection celebrating the spontaneity of an unexpected night out. Creating the feeling of sitting in the Italian evening sun after a day working in the city, drinking cocktails and not knowing where the rest of the night is going to take you.
The collection brings in a multitude of different potential aspects of nightlife, focussing on the lighting and mood created in cocktail bars, while also taking style and silhouette inspiration from shows you could go to such a cabaret and performances from drag queens. A happy hour client, is the night out themselves, they make the night.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
Building the concept for Happy Hour
Inspiration from drag queens, cabaret and the 80s
Aesthetic inspiration
Design development
The origami technique
Tech pack of mens blazer
Trend forecasting
Digital print process
Fabrication of Happy Hour
Design development
Happy Hour line up
Happy Hour range plan
Final outcome
Happy Hour on the runway
DETAIL
Happy Hour Details
Technical and design aesthetic details are a vital part that make up Happy Hour. From the beginning it was important to me to incorporate traditional tailoring details within my garments, each outfit has vents on the sleeves of either tops, dresses, blazers or jumpsuits and the origami technique is inspired by a traditional collar and revere. On both the men's and women's blazers the origami folding is incorporated into a free standing collar. Martini glass bags are another detail of Happy Hour, referencing the original inspiration through styling. In addition to this every print within the collection is a distorted picture from a bar, city lights or night out.
"Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment" - Lee Alexander McQueen
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