Out With The Old, In With The New..

Soo as the new college term approaches and September creeps up on us, i have decided to opt for a full fringe! The side floppy fridge has now gone and i am now left with a pixie cut and full fringe. Take a look at the picture below!

I have a feeling September will be a good month, after a hard few months. College term starts in a couple of weeks and it will be the start of my second year at fashion, determined to do as well as i did at the end of first year! Also its my 18th birthday! This calls for a right fashion knees up which I'm very much looking forward to! Next week my boyfriend is coming back from traveling in America for 2 months so I'm hoping to be receiving a fair few presents which i shall be posting! Also trying to convince him to start up a blog for all his pictures as he does like to travel a lot.

Anyway thumbs up for a good month! 

Evening Wear Final Photos

So after weeks of planning and making, i finally came to the end of making my evening wear outfit which consists of a top, skirt and corsage accessory. The theme for evening wear was abstract art from which i could design from, also thank you to my best friend, Etta for being my model for my outfit! Enjoy looking!

Just Can't Get Enough!

For those of you who know me then you will know that my hair is short like Frankie Sandford from The Saturdays, and you will also know that she is one of my biggest style icons! 

She pulls off the short hair so well and inspired me to go short myself, which i have been for about 3 years now. Before that i had super long hair which was wavy and i had a full fringe. Just reading magazines and seeing how good short hair looked on girls was what persuaded me. Ever since then i find myself loving whatever she wears and i think she proves the whole stereotype of "boys have short hair not girls" being wrong. I also personally think that short hair looks great on girls and really shows off their facial features. 

So i went and got my hair cut yesterday and i have recently been deciding to go a bit shorter than i normally would and i got home and went on my laptop to check out what was going on in the celebrity world. This was one of the stories from heatworld.com 

http://www.heatworld.com/Star-Style/2011/06/Frankies-new-hair-cut---yay-or-nay/

Looks like Frankie's gone shorter too! There are lots of comments about whether she can pull this off but i definitely think so! It really shows off the her great face shape! For me a way to express your style and a huge fashion accessory is your hair which is why i chose to have such a strong hairstyle for a girl :)

Schoools Ouut Forrr Summerrr!

So this is it! First year as a fashion student at college is over! Not going to lie there have been ups and downs through out the year but i have made it through! Even if i do say so myself i was rather pleased with the grade i received for my final project which was a distinction! 

So during my first year i have learnt so much i never knew about the fashion world which has really opened my eyes about my future. I think overall i have had a successful year making and designing and creating my blog of course! One of the best things about being at college this year has to be some of the amazing people i have met and will stay friends with throughout our fashion lives! Its hard to imagine that this time next year we will all be about a week away from completing a diploma in fashion! 

Not to worry, over the summer i will still keep on blogging and even after i have left college i will still carry it on along with my website. Now very much looking forward to a relaxing, fashion inspiring summer and blogging what takes my fancy and sharing with you lot! I shall also be posting some photos of my final project this year during this week. Keep on blogging!

Hussein Chalayan Autumn/Winter 2000

This is a video of Hussein Chalayan's Autumn/Winter collection from 2000. I saw this video and found it really amazing that he could create outfits from such simple objects like chairs and tables. Definitely a good watch and just proves that anything can be fashionable.

Visual Recordings

These are two images below which i have made and scanned into the computer before using Photoshop to incorporate the scanned patterns into a fashion illustration from http://elisefaye.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/simpleline.jpg

I firstly made the patterns using various techniques include dyes, acetates and wax. I made one pattern which was lighter and one pattern which was darker. I then scanned them into the computer and i could edit them on Photoshop by changing the colours, contrast and hue/saturation. I could also make them in to patterns to use in the paint bucket tool. 

I then took my fashion illustration off the internet and went on to work on filling in the line drawing. I used the polygonal tool to cut out parts of the illustration and fill it back with my patterns. When the pieces were cut out i could use other Photoshop tools to change the opacity and colours of the segments. 

Dark Pattern

Light Pattern

Fashion Illustration

Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2001

This video shows part of the catwalk by Alexander McQueen for his collection for Spring/Summer 2001. McQueen was known for his extreme sense of productions for his runways and catwalks, which this video shows. this catwalk in particular shows the models who walk down their catwalk unable to see the audience. the edegs of the runway were mirrored so the models couldnt see anything but themselves while the audience could see everything they were doing. There was also at the begining of the video where the box opened and the model was inside, there were real life moths and flies emerging from it as well. McQueen was a huge talent who loved the prospect of adding shock value to not only to his collections but also the catwalks he put on.