Fashion Show at the Opera House

I write to you as a very happy person! My finished garment from my Fashion vs Sports project was chosen to appear on the catwalk!! I couldn't believe it when my name was called! It was so exciting to see my outfit going down the runway, although during the show i was backstage dressing one of the models! We had decided however, that my my jacket wouldn't go down the catwalk because the top and trousers stood out more on there own. And it was definitely the right decision because the colours looked really bright on the catwalk! Brilliant experience and the show was amazing! Well done everyone who was involved! The fashion show has made me really excited about getting the opportunity to have a whole collection on the catwalk! 

Burberry Prorsum Sprig/Summer 2009

Absolutely loving this!

its all good!

I should hopefully be doing my work placement at the london office of Peclers!! Ill be working as a researcher and i really cant wait! it'll be a brilliant experience and sooo exciting!

I also had my toile review yesterday and it went really well! My tutors liked my designs and that i was well prepared for the review. But now the real work begins! ive got quite a lot to be doing, including; CDP: finish sketch book, construct garments, north face theme board and presentation board, B&M: put together folder and finish promotion board, PPRD: This blog!

I have completed one unit this term so far. The unit was lectra and i had to use the lectra softwear to make a pattern for and make a loose fit jersey t-shirt. i found it a very useful unit and it would be nice if im able to create my patterns using lectra, aswell as on paper, for my sportswear project. 

Although there is a lot of work i really am enjoying the course so far, i cant believe its almost the end of the second term already!!

a quick note from me...

Finished toile for top yesturday and my pattern for my trousers. Also found the fabric i want to use. I have to get it from america and it took me ages to find it but my designs will look so much better if they are in the correct fabrics.

Kind of enjoying buying and merchandising but theres quite a lot of info to take in. We have to create a promotion board for this unit so im doing quite a lot of work on illustrator.

Started jacket pattern for my toile. ive had to do lots of samples to create a correct pattern for the front panels. its taken me ages but i think im almost there. Also been working on my illustrator technical drawings. It takes me a while but i think im getting the hang of it!

Kind of enjoying buying and merchandising but theres

quite a lot of info to take in. We have to create a promotion board for this unit so im doing quite a lot of work on illustrator.

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!

Its nice to be on track

Making a skirt in construction at the moment. wasn't going well to begin with... had to re-do the back of my skirt and zip. I was having problems with my machine. I know your not supposed to blame your tools but i spent half the day fixing my machine! Honest!!

Deadline for the folk project is on Monday so working mostly on that. Going well really although i did struggle to get inspired. But i seem to be pulling it together now.

Our fashion debate went well on tuesday. I was the spokes person for the For group. The against group were really prepared but manage to win the couture debate but we lost the fashion ethics debate. It was decided that although Fashion ethics is the way forward the against team had really worked hard to make a strong argument. 

Other than that I'm up to date with my work so feeling pretty good this week.