Amendments

probably the most boring yet vital part of fashion but I won’t lie I do love it and find it extremely helpful, allowing me to progress and exaggerate my shapes and silhouettes a lot more and I must say I believe they are looking fantastic I love them all :) let’s just hope I can get all the amendments done before 2nd toile review epp 1 week Tuesday

interview with Maria

As part of the Lectra competition not only did we get to see her show but also have an interview with her travelling to my favourite (not)place LONDON TOWN!! Had a cheeky little nose through some fabric shops, seen a beautiful fabric for £250 per metre, think that’s a tad expensive for collection. but then eventually found our way to London college of arts were it was being held and meet her and sat in on a live interview then ask her questions ourselves. i know throughout this project I’ve said I’m not a true fan of her style but I’m very impressed how she’s done it and find her a very inspirational person did you know she has had no formal training!! it’s crazy she started pattern cutting at 15 and has worked her way from their she went to LFW whereby she says she found out her most important message she learnt in life were some1 told her to go and learn some business skill, so off she went found out as much as possible for her business skills which she says has made her what the brand MGV is today. Got some very helpful tips for next year so watch out ;)

Stop the press

it is true 1 is now famous (I wish) well checking out the MGV show at LFW you can see us stood in the background and also on the BBC news were also in view talk about getting papped :P

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8524153.stm

http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/lfw_tv_video.aspx?id=2773

But all in all how was it..........

To me I think the thrill of the show took over me, I loved every minute I was there, seeing Yasmin Le Bon and Erin O'Connor and all the news reported Vogue and Harpers Bazaar to name a couple but then after words thinking through it I believe it was all just in the thrill, I won’t lie I got so far into it but completely lost myself. Looking back and thinking now I just see some ridiculous skinny models a beautiful collection with a few questionable sewing practices though the garments were beautiful and my main disappointment was the length of the show seemed to flash by in seconds and some of the choreography of the models needs work but the garments themselves were very attention grabbing indeed and the prints were to die for and absolutely stunning, but I did thoroughly enjoy myself and even managed to pinch a little goody bag for myself

plus how often do you get in the bbc news website and London fashion weeks website??

Appologies

I must appologise fellow bloggers i have gone on and on about collection time but havent even mentioned what my collection is actually about

Well allow me to introduce you to Anthesis or Effloresence

The State Of Perfect bloom

My collection is all based around organic forms striping everything back and taking inspiration from the things that shape our world

i did start and design a basic collection but as this is my final Project of my foundation I’m taking it to a whole new level and have my separate couture line from which I’m making and taking inspiration from its absolutely amazing

nature is perfect so why mess with it

Hartnet Hardhit??

today we had a little group session with none other than Paul Hartnet himself not only is he a trend reporter for wgsn a journalist but also completely mental I mean I applaud what he's able to do and what he does but it’s down to people like him that put upcoming designers in the gutter he willingly admits he'll go trade fairs and all sorts fashion week blah blah take pictures and then sell them on to WGSN and other which then anyone with an account can see and once it’s on there its literally a matter of weeks before you will see it in the high street store taking innovative upcoming designer work then selling their ideas so they go bust kind of disgusts me but hey.. we all know fashion is dog eat dog and he made it very clear if you don’t put any effort in you might as well save yourself the debt of uni and try something else fashion only works for the hard working and the fighters and don’t mean to be big headed but I’m going to make something of myself in this industry, tho i do applaud the man for labeling me with a 'retro-sport' look see tracky b's for the win

woah relax

Crickey it’s been a very very busy week rushing round for the toile review then the toile review itself trying something new...
For my toile review I decided to base it upon my theory essay which being Are Catwalk Models Becoming Obsolete? so did it without models well it got a mixed reaction I’ll give you that but defo was a good empirical study to back up my essay plus generally just a creative way of thinking I mean what's the point in doing everything the same I like to do things differently I like to stand out it makes things so much more interesting probing people to get a reaction I think it leaves a far better impression on the mind but overall toile review went well got some very handy advice and got to make all amendments for toile review going to be a busy boi

the power of Lectra

Great opportunity as I’m doing the Lectra brief with MGV (Maria Grachvogel) she has invited us all to her show at ye olde Londion Fashion Week with a learning lunch after ohh exciting hey What a great opportunity hey I’ll let you in on the know how maybe a few sneaky pics if it’s actually going ahead

mens wear proj

we were set a wonderful challenge by Clare and Jody turning a readymade garment into another garment the original challenge was to turn it into another men’s garment but I wanted to rework it so it fitted in with my project I incorporated volume and structure into it as in my project I might actually cheekily use one for toil review as I’ve fell in love with it have a gander hope you like :)

what-inar

Its official Scott has now had his 1st webinar yes people webinar and his opinions...
well the webinar itself was ran by the Lectra company but mostly about up Cumming colours for s/s'11 and to celebrate the new goings on with pantone and lectra combined shocked I was we watched a slide go round while the lady on the phone (loudspeaker obvs) talked us through it I found it quite interesting but useful hmmm I kind of knew most a bit of the presentation through my initial research but I found out my project is so on trend it’s ridiculous I was a lil disappointed that there wasn’t really much content for the Lectra enthusiast but I still would rather like a copy of the presentation *note to self email Lectra* but webinars.......... I’m going to give it an even 5 kind of unsure ill keep you updated if my opinion changes on the webinar front

Check this out lad's and lass's

Been looking at this website to get more information on fashion jobs and how to get into the jobs what the working environment is like and so on and whilst looking through the qualifications what did I come across but, none other than our very own little foundation in fashion being valued more in industry and placed higher on their qualification scale than the very own Ba in fashion but I’m guessing that a foundation with a top up to Ba is going to be a good route to head for the who knows maybe a part time work part time Ma, own business or just industry who knows?? But check it out!!
http://www.canucutit.co.uk/qualifications.cfm

Gorgeous or grotesque..........

well well well the be all and end all of our FdA the big show the showcase the event call it what you want.... but so far what are my thoughts on this topic erm tad annoying the time issue I would love to be able to research more and have more design time but hey ho it’s got to be done but what if it’s not as spectacular as every1s hoping am I playing it safe is t too wacky questions questions questions and how much is too much when does the gap between fantastic and kitsch become too small is it gorgeous or grotesque is there to much going on hmmm

I choose to base my collection all about designing from organic forms like truly getting in there and designing from what we don’t see looking at small flowers maximising them by 3000 times and then try and fit a ridiculous Amazonian style woman in the middle confused .. You should be ... amazed you will be watching this space!!!

Claire

you know what I think I’m just going to go ahead and say it I think I have a little thing for Claire I don’t really know what it is or why but I just think she’s amazing. She’s so inspiring and I like how she can get excited and inspire others about there chosen subjects. I love her craziness and randomness it just amuses me I’m glad we have her coming in to help us and give us direction. it’s just nice to be able to design to showcase our talents and do what we want to do though I do like designing to certain cliental but I just love the opportunity to go wild make it crazy and amazing so looking 4ward to it all now though I’ve got some work done just don’t want to stick it in sketch book hahaha