Knitting!

Been on a serious knitting hype this past few weeks.. currently knitting a mustard scarf inspired by PRIMARK, as they have a lot of knitted scarves etc in there, and that is my place of work. Hopeftully going to pick up my camera tomorrow and I take some lovely shots of it. I'm so proud of my self, my first ever knitted garment/ accessory :D 

Shooooess

I've wanted some creepers for soooo long now! And I bought some in Amsterdam from H&M but they're not real ones, and they've broken ALREADYYY! Uhhhh!
Sooo, i'm going to look for some new ones, PROPPER ONES!

  

Oh myyyy, just look at the wonderful leopardy-ness! aaahhh! I haaaave to get somee! Christmas is soon.. Just you wait ;) They'll be mine...

Viktor &Rolf spring/Summer 2010 collection

Umbrella dress

Sooo I began to create my Umbrella dress... made a few designs, and have started cutting some umbrellas and sewing them together etc etc... (note to self.. BUY SOME PLIERS.. my poor fingers are bruised from cutting metal with normal scissors!) First of all I cut up 4 umbrallas so that I can sew them all together in a circle because I need to fit a body in the middle of them! Although they are not painted now or decorated etc, I spoke to Gayle (teacher) and she said that this project is about creating a good photoshoot as the outcome, so it depends if I have time to decorate them, as its not essential for the project.
I have been looking a lot at Viktor & Rolfe : Cut up couture, it is so beautiful and very cleverly thought out as they don't actually cut holes in the material, they create it like this from the start, and I think that i may do something similar to this in my umbrella dress. Need to buy a lot more umbrellas though!! :O bye bye money..

Viktor & Rolf : Cut up Couture

And the start of my umbrella dress..

 The bust/ corset.

 front view

 Top view of the skirt of the dress

The underneath and how I stitched it together

Bombay Bicycle club!

Forgot to mention... Pip, Rachaael and I met Bombay bicycle club at Carnaby street! It was soooo amazing, I'll post the photo when i get my disposable camera developed!
The moment was amazingggg...
Enjoy a bit the boyssss

Brighton

Brighton fridayyy! For the MADE craft fair.
Even though it wasn't really about fashion it was really good to see how people had set up their stalls, because at the end of the year we're going to be setting up our projects, and I quite like the simplicity of many of the stalls as some of them looked a little over-crowded and it was difficult to see what they were actually selling.
I managed to take a few photo's of some peoples work who really inspired me and whose layout I really likes.

 The lady that made these watches was inspired by people who look at their phones in stead of their watches, and she wanted to create these watches to get people into wearing them again, perhaps for fashion and not for the purpose they were made for.

 

I really like the idea of these watches as I love watches, and I have many of my own which i wear, and none of them work, I wear them for fashion instead of their purpose, so this is what she has created by these watches.

 I took photo's of these nacklaces as I really like the layering effect and thought I could use this effect when creating my umbrella inspired dress. I also really like the layout and will deffinitely use wall space when creating my own set up for my final project.

 Photography of Brighton Peer

 Me and Pip braving the cold cold sea!

 Pip,Rachael and Ellie freeeeeeezzzing in the sea!

Beautiful Rachael   :*

Westminster

Went to Westminster on thursday to look round the uni! It's soo lovelyy! Really like the course and the teachers, only down side is the facilisties because they are temporary.. however they are really nice aswell! We looked round the permanent first year facilities and they look very spacious which is really good compared to some other uni's.
I like how their students develop their own touch of their own fashion, not like some uni's who make them focus on 'sportswear' for example
So all in all... THUMBS UPPP. :D

Umbrella's

So apparently umbrella's are linked to movement.. through spinning tops.. through spider webs.. through the spider moving.. ? But anyway we have a project on umbrella's and we have to design an umbrella.. but I'm feeling naughty so I'm going to change mine into a garment.. and I found the perfect inspiration.. A dutch fashion designer called Bas Koster. He made a dress made from entirely umbrellas, I love how the dress just hangs and looks like beautiful ruffles of material. Although umbrella's are not the most slimming piece of.. 'clothing' there is.. I feel that Koster has used dark colours on top and brighter colours towards the bottom to stay away from swallowing up the model in the heaps of umbrellas.

 

I have started designing a few umbrella inspired dresses, and will upload them when they are fully accomplished and actually make sense to not only you, but me! haha

Amsterdam and AMFI

Oh my goshh it was amazinggggg! Amsterdam is such a beautiful city, although a little expensive, it is full of fashion and I love ittttt!

Mum and i went to look round the fashion institute in amsterdam, and it was reallyy bigg, unfortunately I didnt get any photo's of it, we were in a little bit of a hurry as we ended back in same place about 5 times trying to find it! Nevertheless, the course structure is so good! And compared to St Martins, (whose open day I went to yesterday) who have 20 minutes tutor time a week, amfi has around 26 hours! So it's excellent for one on one time. Although the course is 4 years, the first year is similar to foundation, and I think this will help me to realise what I really want to specialise in. The teachers seem lovelyy, and the course structure is wonderful.
Night life and everything is sooooooo cool and wonderful! The only down side is that it is SO expensive out there! :( But this doesnt put me off ;) I'm just going to have to work soo hard !

enjoyy picsssss :)

Took us ages to find the right tram!

Yayyy, finally found our hotel! And how lovely it was. :)

They even welcomed us on the TV! :O

Wonderful Amsterdam at nightttt :)

 

Hippies ! They had cool stuff!Painted vans and colouful tents!

  Christmas lights! :D

Uh ohhh.. We stumbled upon the Red Light District.

 

Pretty Amsterdam :)

 

Dad met us out there! ;)

 

Very cool shop! Although we couldn't go in because the owner was PARTAYINNGGG..

Me and mum got told off for joking around with a vintage item! hahaha

Me and Mum

The super cool lit up house!

The view from the champaign bar in the hotel

HOTEL :D

Metal origami birds hanging from the ceiling

Such pretty birds..

Tram home! So sad to leave, I had such a good time!

Some Dutch Inspiration!

Being me I left my camera at college in the mad rush to catch the bus this afternoon, so instead of uploading photos I took around Amsterdam and the fashion institute I went to look at, I shall show you a few Dutch fashion designers and photographers who inspire me, and leave the photo's until next time.

Iris Van Herpen

Van Herpen's last collection, 'Mummified' used neutral colours with bits of gold and brass. Material such as metal were used for chains, lace leggings and eyelets. Her work is just amazing, considering she is just a graduate. The way she uses shadow lighting and angles to capture her work is really wonderful.

 Viktor Horstin

How beautiful..

The texture in the materials really stands out with the white sprinkled through over the black of the garment. Layers from top to bottom create shadow throughout the artwork, and although the garment is somewhat large, it creates a slimming effect over the models body how Horstin has created the large to smaller layers in an upside down pyramid. Big shoulders are in! And this piece certainly shows effectiveness with fashion on and off the highstreet.