Fashion shop blog Project.

I am back ! I am very sorry for not updating the blog recently. I was very busy with university, so I didn't have much time for myself. Since yesterday I'm in christmas holidays, so I am enjoying freedom to the fullest.

*At university, with my group, we have created a Fashion shop blog project, which means we had to look through shops in London, take photographs, draw sketches, identify the concept thoughts, materials, colours, layouts,etc.

*I am quite proud of this blog, because everybody has done a great job (so this is why I am doing a post about it).

*I have done many illustrations in this blog, but one thing to know, is that they are all taken from elements of the shops. 

*So here's the blog ==> D N A

*And here are the illustrations based on the brands elements:

Click ===> Start

Click ==> Ally Capellino

Click ==> Layers

Click ==> Religion

Click ==> The Convenience Store

In Full Blossom.

This is a few collection of pictures I've taken today in a lovely sunny day of May, with my gorgeous best friend as my model, with the outfits I have made inspired of the Pioneer Spirit. I just wanted to represent romantism, happiness, and innocence.

Flowers in spring, are always a nice combination in Fashion with pastels colours such as soft pink, purple lilac, blue sky or light yellow.

 I wanted to give also a natural effect in the pictures ,even though I'm not a professional photographer unfortunately.

The jumpsuit is made of a cotton pink floral print, with ruffles at the end of the legs . I am happy with the results, and glad I am one of the lucky winners for Pioneer Spirit Competition.

I was really struggling with the patterns, especially for the corset underbust as it was the first time I was making that type of garment. I was pretty hard to do , but at least I learned something new :-)

Adjusted with cute shoes from the collection Anglomenia by Vivienne Westwood.

 

Corset Undersbust made in denim, with Leather Designs produced with embroidery. At the back, there is lacings with a cream ribbon. Hope you liked all the pictures ! :) 

Pioneer Spirit Project.

A project I have done last year, about Pioneer Spirit. The research was based about Native Americans, prairie girls, Cowboys,Fashion inspired about it. In ApriI, I went with my class at the British Museum in the American Indian Gallery, we had to take pictures, draw sketches, getting a lot of information about their lifestyle, and clothing. Somehow,Native americans were wearing quite a lot of skin animals in their clothing to protect them from the coldest winters or wars... I really enjoyed doing creativity into that theme. 

These are random fashion images inspired about cowboys and indians.

Fashion images enterely inspired about cowboys and western. I discovered a shoe campany, when I went to Kings Road in London called R.Soles.It's based on cowboys boots in leather made with lovely designs and embroidery. Check the website http://www.rsoles.com/, it's really amazing... I really love the idea about doing embroidery with soft colours on leather fabric. So here I just made a little design on leather, with a huge painting of a violent cowboy , and different kind of denims all around the painting.

I found a collection by Dan and Dean Catin, which they are the creators of the famous label named Dsquared2.The collection is from Spring/Summer 2010 referring on western,america and cowboys inspirations.I think their collection is beautifully done, the garments have got nice details like the fringing who matches pretty well with the denim,the leather on denim gives a really nice effect, the belts on the body emphasizes the body, they associated denim,leather,fringing,cowboys accessories...Some of their garments are flowery which they used the prairies girls as inspiration aswell.

Beautiful details, like the leather designs on denim or the underbust corset made in leather with cool designs...

Some of the research I showed you were my main inspirations for my collection of 16 designs. I haven't put all of it , I just put the 6 designs I liked the most.

That design is the final one I've chosen, I decided to take a pink floral print, and adjusting it with denim and leather designs.The underbust corset I nearly finished it, but I finally haven't done fringing, because I thought it would be too much.I'm  quite happy with the result... Now I am currently doing the jumpsuit, the time will take shorter than the underbust corset (because it was really hard to realise it!).

Here's the others designs...

I generally really enjoyed the project, I liked discovering about the lifestyle of Indians,researching informations...Then getting inspired of, and illustrated what went out of my head.

These garments aren't recent, they are from last year which it was my first year in Fashion. The projects were surrealism and creating a waistcoat with a fabric we were given. For the surrealism project, we didn't have that much choices about fabrics, just bright colours (which I didn't like at all...).My milkshake bottle dress comes from a little day-dream I had once, I was just sitting in a pub, drinking a milkshake with a brain inside, I don't know who was belonging the brain...I knew that it was a strange taste, but I remember I enjoyed it. I thought it was something related about drinking ideas, so then I decided to write "Drink my idea..." I was happy with the result, but I still think if I would have done with another colour (not that bright...) , it would be so much better. I generally used angelina fibres (I'm so much in love with it), textile pen and paint. Am I allowed to drink your brain?

These are my neurons...

My waistcoat, the result with gold and black net made me happy. But it was so annoying stitching with net, it didn't stop making problems at my domestic machine! I really enjoyed to learn these skills of making a garment, it was very hard but at the end I had the result I really wanted. I don't know when, at the moment I am still doing pattern construction for my pioneer spirit garments (corset underbust+jumpsuit), and unfortunately I am very behind .I have to catch up all this, and then making it. When it will be finished, I will be happy to post pictures of it . Thanks for reading my post !

Hello, hope you all had a good christmas with a lot of presents, fun, good times :) Also wishing you a happy new year with a big late ^_^"  It must be one month I didn't post anything, I was literally just relaxing and watching a lot of movies in my christmas holidays. I had also coursework to do. I haven't done new pictures yet, but as soon as I can, I will put my fashion illustrations from the pioneer spirit project. I am already going to show you these fashion illustrations I have enjoyed last year in class. I generally used bleach,paint and wax. I also liked to play with splashes, and create random shapes .

I never told in my blog,but I am obsessed of shoes...Revealing you my obsession, just gonna now share with you, images of shoes I really love, perhaps I won't put everything because it might be too long ;)

Vivienne Westwood.

                                                       Rocking horse shoes.

Salvador Dali shoes.

These two pair of shoes are from Vivienne Westwood's collection called Anglomania.

                                                                  

     

                                                    Christian Louboutin.

  

                                                    Alexander Mcqueen Shoes.

                    

                                                French designer called Cyd Jouny, who created basketball sneakers with heels.               

Patrick Cox's shoes called "Rizzo".

  I don't know if we can walk with these shoes but I really like them. They were created by Samuel Mazza.

                                               Lars Hagen's cut-glass and mirror collage on a shoe. (must be painful to wear that)
                                       

Vivienne Westwood's penis-shoe in her "Erotic Zones" collection.