UPDATE !

Hello everyone,

It's been 4 months now I haven't updated my blog unfortunately due to busy schedule at university.
At the moment, I am making two garments for the menswear tailoring presentation, inspired about a muse I had to find. Also an essay, and portfolio to do!
I will post everything on here once I am finished during my christmas break, and post articles aswell from my internship in a fashion studio during january to february which is really exciting for me. :)
What else to say? I am also planning a project of mine after christmas,  and a professional video of my muse wearing my garments.
I hope you understand why I am so busy currently :)
Yet I show you a picture of my muse, a very talented musician in Berkhamsted, called Marc Wellebrune playing in a band called the Elvyne Howlers, to see their Facebook page, click HERE.
It's mainly all about him I have been influenced through my collection and the final garments I am making right now.

 Photography from John Perivolaris (to see his blog, click here)

 

 During the first weeks of october, before making my own garments, I have learned to make a classic half tailored jacket, to establish knowledge.

Some fashion illustrations I have done during the year.

In my illustrations, the materials I use generally are soft pastels or watercolour.

In this post, these are life drawing illustrations I have done from my first year at university.
During the sessions, the model was wearing very important outfits, and most of them were from Vivienne Westwood's old collections.
It is really fun to draw all the details possible on a model. :)

Thank you for reading my article! And by the way I have now a twitter, so if you want to follow me, go HERE !

 

 

Update on my blog

It's been a long time here since I haven't updated my blog, sadly I didn't have the time to post articles  because I was really busy in my life.
Although, it doesn't mean I given up this blog! There are so many things I have to share with you all.

There is one project I have done back in september, basically inspired from many artists I have found in the Post Modernism exhibition from the V&A. It is really silly that I didn't post this yet, as this subject is very interesting and a great discovery of many different aspects.

Very soon I am travelling to Rhodes ,which is a small island in Greece, so there will be a lot of photographs, and certainely I will pop into shops and get fabrics, buttons ,etc. For a project when I am back :) And share this with all of you on this blog.

I haven't posted since march, so I am publishing right now a couple of illustrations I have done before, that I didn't show you yet, I really hope you like it, and if you don't, don't be scared to tell me your opinion and explain what I should change in my illustrations.
I believe criticism is a good thing in fashion , not something to take as negative side, when someone tells you something isn't right or good enough, it is always a good opportunity to try to understand the person and produce the work in a better way.


The 5 first pictures, are from the previous project that you might recognize if you have already been through my blog, about Hiroshima, the terrible event that happened in Japan, back in 1945.

Those illustrations here, were inspired from the Russian Constructivism Art Movement, and the Opera singer Klaus Nomi, which if you take a look about his songs, and life, you will be fascinated as much as I am about him.

Thank you again for reading my articles, and I will very soon post new articles !

Undergraduate Middlesex University 1st years Fashion show 2012

After a very busy week, I am posting the videos of the Fashion show organised from the students in my Fashion course that taken place in Finchley Park, London. It was such a great experience, and there is only one word...WICKED. I enjoyed volunteering as a dresser, it was very challenging and all new for me. However, it was stressful of course, but it didn't stop my joy and excitment! I think everybody did a great job. Below you'll see again my illustration of the garments, the model wearing the final outcome on the catwalk,and a poster of the Fashion Show. :) Then the videos of the fashion show in better quality now, enjoy !

 

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

It's nothing.

This month was busier than the other months, as I am on my way to finish the Hiroshima dress, the results will be posted by next week eventually or the week after when the pictures are taken.

There, I am posting a drawing I did this afternoon. That was a random day-dream I had last month, it represents the everyday's life of a human. If you take a closer look at the drawing, you can see a toothbrush, and an egg, it could remind of the mornings,or something else. I let you have your own vision on this drawing... maybe I could sort of use this illustration for a garment? I was wondering tonight, if I could make a top and get this printed on it when I will have time, we'll see :)

Hiroshima project photoshoot.

So this week, I have managed to find a model and a professional camera for a photoshoot relating to the story of my muse Hanako, an orphan girl that survived during the explosion in Hiroshima.
It was very exciting and challenging as I have no experience in photography.
I am currently doing at the moment my radioactive leggings and I will start very soon the dress aswell from the final design (click here if you haven't seen it yet). I am very very excited to finish all that, and see how the results will end like.
I am so into about what happened in Hiroshima that I'm getting hallucinations. The other day when I was walking in London, I thought I actually saw a bomb falling from the sky !
I hope you like the pictures and one illustration(at the moment) , thank you for reading my posts :-)

 

When the bomb dropped from the sky...

Flash light

 The explosion.

The radioactive rain.

Little Boy

My collection, is inspired a lot about what happened the 6th of August 1945 when the Enola Gay plane dropped the bomb (named 'Little boy' too) in Hiroshima around 8.15am. I haven't posted all the designs yet, but next week I will post all the rest of it.

This is the design I have chosen to make for the Fashion show this year. I have made the pattern already, so from now I just have to make it. :)

                                                

Little outfits for happy toddlers.

This small collection of 5 designs, was an idea back from a week ago when I popped in a charity shop and found baby outfits. Since then, I had those cute ideas for babies dancing in my head, and I wanted to draw these and update on here today. If I had to make these, the materials would be cotton and felt (nothing very complicated). I wanted aswell for the designs to be simple, but in the same time cute and unique, so I am very happy with the results. I'm thinking of doing another range of clothing for the little monsters ^_^  :-) I hope you like it ! And I will post very shortly the collection inspired from Hiroshima, maybe this week-end or the end of next week? Thanks for reading my post !

Liquorice Délice

 Smile, be happy 

Babybird

Dans l'bleu

Petit coeur

Hiroshima Project.

The ideas on this project it's to research on a selected theme we are obsessed about, and collect 10 items related on this subject. Also do a written piece, and to imagine the muse we are designing for (it can be fictional, real, from the past , present or the future).

Then do visual outcomes for the portfolio and select a final design. 

I have chosen personally Hiroshima, because I thought it would be good to remind people about what happened in the past, and also show that humans can have a big level of cruelty.

Except the gaz mask, I haven't find all the items unfortunately, I don't think it's legal to collect a bomb haha. Hopefully I can find something interesting in Vintage or Army shops in London...

I have finished the Written piece today, and I am proud to show you the story I've written.

 It is very short, because we can't do more than 400 words, so I tried my best to make it as a intriguing and interesting story. It's the letter from a young girl who describes her day when the bomb has dropped in Hiroshima...

'The 6^th of August 1945,

The impulse of telling you my story, is haunting me deliberately. So many souls are gone since this morning, but mine is still here. Writing has never been my vocation, but today is very different from what I usually do.

I live near the city Hiroshima, usually it's rare when I go outside, because people are like scary shadows for me. I am an orphan. Everybody around here sees me as a witch because the woman who gave me life was apparently a prostitute. My passion, the sewing machine, a gift from an old friend who died 7 or 8 years ago, it is the only tool that gives my satisfaction. It's such a joy to recycle kimonos, silk, komebukuro, and other materials into personalised outfits.

It was six in the morning. The sun arose earlier than usual with its beautiful gold colour incorporated in the blue poetic sky, which it was fascinating me so much because of the brightness.

I woke up very early as I was in the first steps of making a dark narrow skirt, I like having my own outfits. Everything was very quiet and normal until quarter past eight. Then something went through my mind, I don't remember what, and suddenly I felt a horrible wave of heat on me. The windows exploded for no reasons, with a deafening noise. I ran outside, there was no sun anymore, I only discovered a big yellow blind light with this noise that broken my ears.

It felt like the end of the world with the sun eating me.

Families, animals, houses, everything has been destroyed in the space of two minutes. I was walking slowly, it just felt like suddenly the world has never existed. I didn't understand why I didn't die too, or didn't have a single wound on me . As soon as I realised I couldn't do anything to help people or find survivors, my tears were running down on my cheeks for hours and it was strange because I felt my face burning at the end. I went back in my ruined house, and discovered that my sewing machine has miraculously survived, which gave me a little smile on the face.

Sensations all around my body kept going all afternoon, I closed my eyes to forget about it, and as soon as I opened them, I started to realise my ruined house was on fire. I was in the fire all afternoon, and didn't get burnt. Tonight I am still alive...

Hanako'