Saba Rauf2025-11-222025-11-222020https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/11929As the name shows firefighter is someone who fight against fire. A firefighter is a person who rescue us from hazardous fire, but even though all fire fighters are trained in that, one’s will play more important part in the rescuing mission. To extinguish the destructive fire meant as firefighting. To fight with these fires and preventing loss of lives, land and the atmosphere is the job of firefighter. To decrease the fire, rescuing the lives, stopping the fire, providing basic first aid to injured ones and investigate that how fire actually started are included in the basic tasks of firefighters. Firefighters are also known as fireman or fire brigades. When any emergency appears like there is a building on a fire, firefighters are always ready and they instantly respond to these emergencies and go to where they are needed to recues people or building or wherever their attention is needed. Firstly, they get rid of fire then they recue people or animals and they also provide basic first aid to injured people or animals too. For doing all of these jobs they need to be brave, have enough courage, and should have enough devotion to their job. Because not only life of people they are saving is in danger but also their own too. So, they should be fearless and bold enough to recuse both people and themselves from danger. Team-work also plays an important role in all of these. They can only perform well if theyare in contact with each other, they have to cooperate with each to recue living beings. How they put themselves in danger to rescue us was really a big inspiration. They don’t think about their lives and are available for us 24/7. So, I wanted to pay tribute to them in a stylish way. Few of the designers also did it before like in New York Fashion Week, Autumn/Winter collection 2018 Calvin Klein paid tribute to emergency service heroes with a sizzling collection. In Gucci Spring/Summer 2020 collection also there were garments inspired from firefighters. “I used uniforms as something that block and constrain you inside codes that make you functional, practical and anonymous,” (Michele, 2020) In my collection, I also paid tribute to these special people who put us before themselves. Even though the inspiration was firefighter, collection did not include basic uniforms, in fact different elements were taken and that’s how the collection was put together. Main objective of this project was to incorporate technical textiles to create haute couture collection. The purpose was to create wearable garments and to give them useful purpose such as garments can be used as fire retardant. One of the garments was designed for a girl aged five years and three other garments were designed for the women. To accomplish this, different boards such as Research boards and Mood board, Color pallet, Digital and manual prints, fabric manipulation, embroidery and embellishments etc. were made. Cotton fabric with special coatings was used to create garments. Firefighters’ uniform is made of three layers. First two layers consist of wool serge and brushed wool while the inner layer is made of cotton. So, cotton was used in the collection as it was more suitable to apply fire retardant finish on it too. The base colors of the collection were orange and khaki. While Black, Red, Blue were used as sub- dominant colors and silver and yellow as accent colors. In embellishments and embroidery, different types of material and stitches were used. This work will be useful for future as it will help reducing the gap between technology and fashion. As now days, we cannot stay away from technology. So, different things were to make a proper and different collection.enThesis