Summery of the project this far!

Project Process
We started last week to look at different aspects of ageing in fashion. It was interesting but the topic "fashion" was to wide.
We narrowed it down to jeans and started to look and compare different ageing processes that could be similar to both jeans and humans. For instance jeans can be given an old look (age unnaturally) if you treat them in different ways so that they will be worn out, you speed up the ageing process. In the same way the human body will age unnaturally if you treat it with different kinds of chemicals and other things that, in a way or another, will break down and age the body.

We found these different ways to speed up the ageing process very interesting, and started to look closer on how you could put more value into something by making it feel and look older. We have now focused on jeans and T-shirts, but we are also trying to find other materials that we will be able to put some more value in by ageing it.

We have been trying different methods to make jeans look worn, and our big conclusion so far is that it's hard to give the material the correct amount of aged feeling. We are now in a big training-camp where we practice to find this perfect amount of ageing.

Meanwhile we practice on test objects, we have bought a pair of jeans that will be our main object. We have started to wear the jeans and at the same time we are spraying water at the "whiskers" to make them stiffer and more easier to, for example, sandpaper down to give them a worn look.

We are planing to continue to work with our main object, in a controlled way where we always do big researches on the different ageing methods before we apply them on our main object, so that we are able to find the correct amount we'll have to use to give it the perfect look. This isn't as easy as it seams, but we are working on it.

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