After researching into Mcqueen's summer collection I was inspired to go pick out similar colours and textures for my own design. I first went and chose some samples of materials including a bold red and a pastel orange and purple. After playing with them on my mannequin for a while I descided I definetley wanted to use these colours when creating my outfit. I planned to use the red material for the main skirt and the other two pastel colours combined for the wings and maybe add some extra remainders to the main skirt. However after going back to the shop there was no red left so I had to suddenly change my colour scheme. I still went ahead with the pastel materials for the wings but picked up a meter of orange to replace the red and some other more translucent, thick orange material that I could use as the under skirt to give my skirt a big more volume and energy. My first design ideas were to drape either the orange or red material around the waist of the model as a mid-length skirt that met at the left or right of her leg so she had a slit running straight down the side that I could add different coloured materials to, for a mixed texture. However as I began to put this into motion I realised how different it was beginning to look compared to what I had imagined. The skirt was much flatter against the mannequin and lacked life, it was also restricting the dancer from moving due to the material clinging to the mannequin. 
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