Working with Kaledo Functions

Collection: Day & Night / By: Keri Kesner & Lesley Charland

kaledo style - kaledo knit - kaledo weave - kaledo print

INTRODUCTION

Inspirations

The purpose of this collection was to create several versatile, innovative business wear garments that have reversible functions to extend the life of the garment and give the wearer several ways to style the garment through contrasting color palettes and unique patterns. We wanted to create a business-wear collection for women around the ages of 25-40 that could serve as both office-wear and could be easily converted into nightlife wear after hours. We chose to execute this through using a contrasting color palette as well as garments that featured removable components as well as revers-ability functions. The collection has two creators, a great friend of mine, Lesley Charland, along with myself. All contributions to the final product were split in a 50/50 format.

COLOR PALETTE

Reasoning for Color Choices

Creating contrast was a big intent of ours throughout the design process, and we wanted to keep a minimal palette to keep things cohesive. We went with two contrasting shades, coral and blue, and incorporated both tints and shades of the two colors, totaling different colors in the palette for the collection.

Color Codes: (left to right) 1.) Light Coral: ffd4ca / 2.) Coral: fbab86 / 3.) Rust: b55e35 4.) Midnight Blue: 1a2b4d /

5.) Light Navy: 5a73a5 / 6.) Sky Blue: d2dcf1

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Further Information on Inspirations + Garments with Fill

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KALEDO STYLE

After inspirations were gathered and we had our goal in mind for the overall design, we then proceeded onto sketching out garments.

Garment #1: Reversible Romper w/ Removable Belt

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An easy, simple, yet unique looking garment for the workplace. The garment would be a woven piece with fit mechanisms such as a zipper featured on the back of the garment. The garment would be reversible with a light color from our color palette on one side and a darker color or possibly a print on the other side. The removable belt is added in to help sinch the waist of the garment to showcase the human silhouette better. Our intention was to create a youthful, fun look for nightlife while also creating a garment that could fit within the business attire realm as well. The versatile reverse features help to transition from the workplace to nightlife as well.

Contribution made by: Keri Kesner

Garment #2: Reversible Dress

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Just like the garment above, let alone any garment in the Day & Night collection, the dress features a reversibility feature. The garment is meant to be a woven garment, and fit mechanisms added into the piece to allow this are the buttons at the front of the garment.

Contribution made by: Keri Kesner

Garments #3-5: Reversible Blazer Jacket, Reversible Undershirt and Reversible Slack Pants

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All three garments are reversible and we plan for them to be all woven, except we could do a rendition of the pants in a knit form for a more comfortable, legging like style using thicker knit material. The undershirt shown in the middle can be paired with the blazer for a workplace look, and taken off by night to create a nightlife look, as well as turned inside out to feature a new color -- maybe more fitting for each possible event.

Contribution made by: Lesley Charland