Fabric fabric fabric

Rolls and rolls and rolls of fabric choice, what to buy. If I love it regardless its coming home with me.

Fabric shopping

Sac le coeur in Paris the view is amazing................................................................
Fabric shops here always are exciting, just what I need to help create my final collection

Quote I Love

"You live once you might as well be amusing". Coco Chanel

Indigo Paris

So we've just arrived back from Paris. Indigo is a fashion trade show, this is where we try and sell our prints. It is always a great experience and a good insight to how part of the fashion trade works. This is the second year my work has been there for sale and even though last year I had some great feedback I had no sales. This year I sold four of my printed fronts I couldn't be more pleased as this only confirms my chosen path for the future. I want to design prints freelance and even though I was unable to make direct contact with any of the major print companies in this country (because of how incredibly busy they were and I could only work for 3 hours) but I acquired a list of all the relevant companies I need to make contact with. A thoroughly successful trip.

Dragon Fruit

This is the most amazing looking fruit, The strange prongs and colour make it very interesting.

 It tastes of a light melon, this fruit fascinates me as the the trees it grows on produces the most amazing flowers but they only come out at night. A great inspiration for my FMP and the goblin market poem by Christina Rossetti.

Outfit Boards

Each board is telling a story of the outfit I am planning to design. Print ideas have been taken from the words and story of goblin market this will also help the colour story. Construction ideas will develop from  the shapes created by the beautiful architecture and interiors of Strawberry Hill House and 1960s couture fashion will add a element of historical fashion with which to bring all these ideas together.

Origami concept by Shingo Sato

This technique for making origami in a bodice was demonstrated by Shingo Sato on you tube the most precise easy instructions to produce a piece of fashion sculpture. This was my first attempt I am so impressed by the ease of which this can be accomplished I am planning to do more experimentation with these methods. It could add another dimension to the creation of my final collection.