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'

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.