house design major

- hi, my name is zachary fernandez and i'm currently a fashion student. so i am starting mykathmandu 2016 collection. my collection's gonnabe debuting at my school fashion show, and so i havelittle under seven weeks to get this all put together. so our school assignmentwas to pick a city that we wanted to be inspiredby for this collection.

i ended with kathmandu, nepal, all of the trouble thatthey went through last year was really inspiring and iwas able to take those ideas of imbalance and thedestruction of culture and apply that to this new collection. these are the pieces thati ended up designing. they're ever-changingand they kind of just are always in flux. my sketching processinvolves a lot of images,

a lot of mixed medias,i like to do collages, watercolors, acrylic paste,it's a real reflection of what my mind looks like. here you have the finalsketches that i've done. the sketching process for me is really a major step between justideas and kind of this fantasy world that i've created in my mind to really functional wearable pieces. fabric sourcing is one ofmy favorite things to do.

it's really like a groupactivity, like meet a couple of friends, we'll just go, we'll explore the city,we'll get inspiration. so i'm looking for like a very pale blue that's almost like very silverish, and then i'm gonna be looking for a very deep, rust orange color. okay, so i need to findthis, but more grayish blue. the fabric store is one of those places

that you go in with oneidea and one concept and one thought, and youcome out with like 500 more. this is it. - this is it! - this is it.- [girl] dude! - hey! yes! so i spend the majorityof my time draping and it's definitely a part thatwill make or break a piece.

i take a piece of muslin,which is just a really basic blend fabric, and i startedsculpting it to the dress form. and then those mock-ups thati make of the dress form are then fitted to themodel, and sometimes i try them on a model, i'mlike, this is hideous, i don't know why, it just overpowers her or something happensand that leads to even better ideas and evenmore just, creativeness. when you design while you create,

i just think it takes so much longer and you like pressureyourself so much more. so, my design mind is turned off. and it's just about sewing, and sewing, and sewing, and sewing, and sewing. so after i finish draping, i take a part of that mockup and i totally seam rip it and i re-pattern it, and then i cut out of my real fabric.

(sewing machine) it's always really nerve-wracking 'cause a lot of times thefabric's all that you have, either the budget doesn'tallow for you to get more fabric, or there'ssimply not anymore left. it has this like box-like structure in it. the box is actually lined with horse-hair so that it can kind of take the shape and that's why i'm kind of trying to like

manipulate it right now'cause it just takes on whatever shape you really need it to. the show, oh the show. six days, and i'm stillcutting up fabric like, i don't think that's normal. there's always going to bethat last minute hurry up and finish like state of being. i have a picture in my mind about how this is supposed to go,

but who knows if it actually go that way. i think that there can bea lot of different ways to read the look. obviously you look forlike the main things like color, silhouette,is this an evening piece, is this a day piece and you just kind of put the garment andchoose certain categories and that really helpspeople read fashion out, by the time the piece is on the runway

i'm already thinking abouta whole new collection and i'm really thinkingsomething totally different, but it doesn't reallyhit me that these people, for them it's the firsttime that they've seen this. i've spent months and monthsplanning and sketching and putting it together. if i see all these differentthings in these pieces, but no one else does,then it's kind of sad, but then it's also partof what makes fashion art,

is because people see itin so many different ways. (applause and cheering) we are in my home, studio,bedroom combination in berkeley, california. i have this look fromproject runway junior, which was the first episode, and this look for my most recent collection. they really mean a lotto me 'cause they show how much progress i've made within

the last four, five months.

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