Hi, I am FINALLY finished with College! FMP DONE! Exhibition space DONE! Fashion show DONE! Exhibiton space taken down! I have filled in all the forms, so I am no longer a college student :( :'( Boo Hoo! So many things are happening in my life at the moment, that I haven't had time to get sad about leaving, (or keep this blog up to date :P) Sorry!
Here are some photos of the fashion show!
P.S. I didn'd fall over or die or break my leg in the shoes!!!
Being all poserful after our time on the catwalk...
On the catwalk...
Afterwards... With some cheeky photo-bombers!
Me and Abs being cool!...
Celebrating with a cheeky glass of..something?...
Thank you very much to my lovely models Hazel, Merri and Abs! xx
So that is that! Just got to wait a while for my results :) :/
In the meantime I will get back to my usual blogging self! Famous bloggers are already on to S/S 2013 and I haven't even started to document my favourite fashion shows !!! :O
Also...
MADEON IN 6 DAYS!!!! WIRELESS FESTIVAL THIS SUNDAY!!!!!! The weather had better get sunny! OR ELSE!
Yesterday was my last day at College! It was very short, involving me taking some photos and doing little finishing touches to my Exhibition space! I would like to apologise for the lack of posts recently, but now I am finished I have all the time in the world to blog! You won't be able to get rid of me! All I have got to do for College now is the fashion show next week :/ Quite scared at the thought of having to walk in my shoes :( I can't even get any practise in them as they are locked away at College in my exhibition space! Here is what has kept me so occupied over the past weeks...
My SHOES!!!!
Last Monday I also did a photo shoot with my collection. It was quite an interesting experience, involving lasers, UV lights and a smoke machine...
So that's it for the FMP! I have still got the sewing bug however and I've got a few dresses to make for myself, will keep you updated!
Hmmm apart from that I don't really know what to do with myself...? I am on my first free day and I feel a bit bored :P I really don't know how to relax!
I am so nearly finished with FMP and College! I am quite pleased that at the moment I am at the calm before the potential storm and I haven't had a mental stress breakdown! (yet)
Since I last blogged I have achieved quite a lot I think. Along with spending 4 days helping clear the art block of furniture, putting up wooden boards, painting and scrubbing floors for the end of year exhibition at College, I have finished my 4 designs, made a net maxi dress with Shibori and an under skirt, made a printed jacket with net sleeves and a pair of printed trousers, sanded and painted my shoes silver, made a pattern and toile for the straps, started the final straps, come up with a branding concept for my collection, made a website for the collection/brand and listened to Madeon's "Finale" teaser about 200 times!
Mmmmm so Silver...
I spent the whole of this afternoon making this paper mock up/pattern for my shoes, which fits my feet exactly and should support the weight of the wood! (And look AWESOME hopefully)!...
The front...
(My sisters feet btw, I couldn't wear the shoes and take the photo)...
The side...
I designed the pattern, so it could be layed out flat and cut out of fabric. To make this happen I had to split the pattern in two, so I have one seam to sew! I must say, I am rather chuffed that I got it to work!
Making the fabric toile with my flat strap patterns...
You will just have to wait a bit longer to see the final shoes :) I don't want to jinx anything before the Fashion show rehearsals :P
My tutor said I needed to improve my illustrations, so I have come up with these...still working on the 4th one...
Sorry about the poor photo quality!
To go with my vacuum formed top I designed a flowy jacket and a pair of flowy trousers, both with a QR code pattern screen printed on them! The QR code links to the brand website I made. I don't have a smart phone with a QR code scanner but some of my class mates do and they scanned my fabric... and it worked :) Very exciting!!!...
I haven't got any pictures of the finished trousers, but you get the idea :) The are very floaty :) And see through :/
Here is a photo of the jacket toile.. Again, no finished garment photos, sorry :(
As usual music has been very helpful at keeping me calm :P
Here is what I have been listening to this week...
Hi, I would just like to say, THERE IS ONLY ONE WEEK OF TEACHING LEFT! :O I am sort of on the fence about this; on one hand there is one week left of tutor's "help and advice", but on the other hand, there is only one week of early starts and buses and waisting my time because of annoying sewing machines :P I will still have to go in to sort out my exhibition space and use photoshop and the good printers, but I will have more time to sew at home and complete folio pages....so yeah...i'm inbetween stressed and chillin :)
Here is what I have been up to this week...
Making my top for my second outfit...
I made a plain black top...
Cut up bright fabric into small pieces...
Sandwiching the bright fabric in between two layers of black fabric, I embroidered small circles...
Fully embroidered...
Then...I BURNT IT!
With a soldering iron, to melt the top black layer and reveal the bright fabric underneath...
I also cut and shaped my vacuum forming...
I finished sawing the shoes! A saw will never have to touch these ever again! Just need to sand and paint them, and attach straps! They are really worrying me though, as they are pretty lethal to walk in, so wearing them for the fashion show is looking iffy :/ Might just have to carry them on a platter like a waitress...
I have started outfit 3! Yaay! I am currently boiling the fabric with coins in, using the Shibori technique to make the fabric bobbly :)...
I also finished my laser cut top, well...almost! It now has straps, but I have still got to peel off all the plastic on them and attach patterned acetate to some of the mirrors...
So 2 outfits and 2 halves done! In the end I hope to have 4 outfits and possibly a brand concept too... A logo and brand name, advertising campaign and promotional items! (Hopefully:/)
Just saying...expect spelling and grammar mistakes...
Monday was a bank holiday and Tuesdays I always have off College, so I dedicated these two days to full on non-stop sewing! I finished my first skirt and made my second skirt...
Awful photos, sorry, I promise at the end of this project you will get decent photos of the stuff I have made...
I have still got to thread plastic tubing into the top layers of the skirts, which is proving very difficult, to say the least!
I also had a go at vacuum forming plastic. I made a plastic bodice for my 3rd outfit...
First my friends helped me create a mod rock cast of my body (behind you can see me wrapped in cling film...
I used this to create a clay mould...
I added beads to create detail...
My mould in the vacuum former...
The plastic laying over the top, which gets heated so its bendy...
When the plastic is bendy enough, the mould gets pulled up and vacuumed so the plastic gets sucked around it ...
WOOO, my plastic bodice...
I made a white one too...
I started cutting it to create an unusual bodice shape (not finished, so don't judge the wonkiness)...
I worked at East all weekend, so I haven't done anything else :/ Oooops!
Ideally I would like to have my first two outfits completed and my third almost done if not finished by Friday! You'll just have to wait and see :)
