Walk, walk fashion baby.

Yesterday, Colin Reid came into college to start us off on a new brief involving branding. He spoke to the group for roughly an hour and a half sharing his experiences in the fashion industry. I really enjoyed hearing about the people he had worked with such as Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Nautica and Pringle. Colin also mentioned that he was part of the creation and development of the famous 'CK' logo for Calvin Klein.
As part of the new brief, we have been asked to work as a group to design and develop our own brand. We will need to come up with a brand name, mission statement and customer profile. I am looking forward to starting this project as I feel it would be a different experience working as part of a team instead of just working independently.

I just want to bring you down.

Here is a photo of my final shirt. I was really pleased with the end result and I am proud of the development of my skills in pattern cutting a sewing throughout this project. I now feel much more confident on a sewing machine with only having very little experience in the past.

AD108 deadline.

Today was the deadline for the Phaze Steampunk shirts. A representative from Phaze came into college to look over the work and portfolios. We rearranged the studio so that all the shirts were in the centre of the room and all the portfolios were set out on the tables. One of the main things she said about the shirts was the range of diversity. Personally I thought the range worked well as it showed how each student had taken in their research an applied to their design. 
For my shirt, she commented on how simple it was and how it would be something which would more likely be mass produced. She did criticise my use of silver studs on the shoulders and asked why I'd chosen to use that particular colour. I explained that I felt if I'd used brass coloured studs, it wouldn't have linked in with the purple and black. Despite this though, I did appreciate the feedback and hopefully it will help me in the future to develop on my ideas instead of creating simple designs.

Once upon a dream.

From my Alice in Wonderland project, I became a fan of the photography work of  Annie Leibovitz. When I found out that she's created a series of photographs which represented celebrities as Disney characters, I had to find them. This is one of my favourites featuring Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens as Aurora and Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty. I love the soft tones and costumes.


Here is a link to the website where I found this image as well as the rest of the photo shoots.
http://www.insidethemagic.net/2011/03/photo-archive-latest-in-the-annie-leibovitz-disney-dream-portrait-series-capturing-celebrities-as-colorful-disney-characters/

Lasso of Truth.

I love anything to do with superheroes, mainly DC Comics. I found out that MAC makeup were doing a range based on Wonder Woman and thought I had to get the whole range. My sister bought me the 'Russian Red' lipstick when she was visiting a friend in London. I then treated myself to the 'Mighty Aphrodite' powder blush and 'Rapid Black' eye liner pen, both of them I use everyday.
(The image is one of the promotion posters which I found on Google.)

Chanel Winter Collection.

I found this video while searching on Youtube for catwalk shows. This one, in particular, caught my eye because of the use of real icebergs. I loved this idea as it creates an atmosphere as it would have had to be cold to keep them from melting. I liked this as it linked in very well with the season which the collection was for.