Lace Wings !!

For my branding project at College I have decided to create an up-cycled fashion business called Lace Wings. The name links to wasps and the recycled, delicate theme I want my brand to have.

I have made a dress out of old scraps of material and an old necklace, to display what is possible for my business.

Here is my logo (without a background) and a photoshoot of the dress I made.

I will now use these pictures on my business cards and posters...

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Up-cycling !!!

At College we have started a branding project, where we create our own businesses and make promotional items and advertising. I have created an up-cycled fashion boutique (vintage or second hand items deconstructed and re-constructed).

 Re-cycling/up-cycling is something that interests me and creating a business for a College project could give me an insight into my own future business. (What I was hinting in the blog post about the recycled flower top) :P

 I have been researching different up-cycled brands to get ideas.

 Here are a couple I have found...

http://armoursansanguish.tumblr.com/

Armour Sans Anguish

All made from 100% recycled materials.

Another company I found was The Ragged Priest, which I first discovered in the Oxford Street Topshop...

They sell re-worked and vintage clothes and accessories...

http://www.theraggedpriest.com/

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Recycled !!!

A while ago I was in Topshop and I saw a top which was covered in small material flowers. It was such a simple idea, but looked great. So... I thought I would have a go. I didn't have much money saved up to make it so I had to keep to a budget.

My design was inspired also by a display at my college of one of the second years work, in the theme of flowers and "The Secret Garden".

I used an old top that I found hiding in my wardrobe, Flowers from the 99p store and the pearls in the middle of the flowers were from a broken necklace from Primark. Altogether it easily cost under £10 to make...
I also found a little label with "Make Do And Mend" on it, so I sewed it on to the top as I thought it linked well...

The flowers and pearls were all hand stitched onto the top, which took ages but was worth the time ...

I had quite a few flowers left so I decided to make a matching head band...

Half of a great festival outfit for under £10 !

Making this top and headband really got me thinking about possibly starting up my own recycled clothing business, using all recycled materials and charity shop clothes...

So watch this space ...

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First Post !!!

It has taken me ages to decide what to post first... Favourite Designers? Favourite pieces of Art? Favourite Photographers? But I thought I would show some of the things that I have made and have been proud of !

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An outfit I made for a Culture Clash project at College, Based on English Punk and Russian Ballet.

A recycled outfit :) Made from a secondhand Ski jacket !

Before... 

After...

A model version made for Barbie !!!

A selection of prints and paper dresses for a Natural Order project.

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