Hello 2009!

New design project is Sports v Fashion... my honest first thought was 'oh crap!', but i'm actually really into it now! I think that at first i was worried because i my knowledge of sportswear is very small, however, that meant that research was absolute essential. The amount of research i have done has really helped and i'm a lot more confident about the whole project having done it.

I chose to use 1920's sportswear as my inspiration and i will be using hard wearing performance fabrics such as Gore-tex and ripstop. My 

philosophy will be something like 'Tradition meets Innovation' and i will be creating a collection for a collaboration with The North Face. So far so good but it does mean that i will have to construct a jacket, t-shirt and trousers for my finished outfit... no pressure there then!!! I'm actually quite excited about the construction part, its going to be sink or swim i afraid but i enjoy a challenge!

Note to self:need to start C.V and covering letter!!!    

Will be starting Buying and merchandising this afternoon. i think i'm going to learn a lot from it and am kinda looking forward to it to!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

First Term Update

So its been awhile... lots to talk about then!

Last project of last term was all about the philosophy. Create your design using inspiration from your philosophy. I kind of went quite arty with this one because apparently my last projects needed more. i did enjoy this one though as i felt i had a bit more free reign than the last project.My philosophy was 'Take only what you need from the earth, respect all that lives and grows upon it'. I was generally happy with my finished work with this project so its all good! However, what i found quite odd during the first term was that we had tutorials for our design projects on the deadline days! Each time i left a tutorial i wished i'd had the help during the project and not at the end! Advise isn't very useful if you get it to late. Oh well, new term, new tutor, new project, which i'll come back to later!

Fashion debate went well, we won the couture debate but lost the fashion ethics one, on the grounds that although ethical fashion is the way to go the against team had worked hard to find a plausible argument.

Got all work in on deadline days so not too panicked! Plus got given next Design brief early so that we could do research over xmas hols. bonus!