new things, rest and truth or dare.

hello temporarily abandoned blog.

So it's been awhile since my last post, probably too long actually. Been pretty busy over the last few days and haven't had the chance to write anything of a decent amount. But anyway, I'm back to ramble. Went to Bournemouth for the day yesterday as we heard it was meant to be the nicest day of the summer, and I think my sunburn and horrific tan lines prove that indeed, it was. Woke up this morning with a lovely bruise on my stomach and the scratches down my leg making me look like i've been beaten. So today's my day of rest and recovery. And the fact that I can't put jeans or tights on without lots of pain forced me to stay in pyjamas for the day.

Got 1 dress and a skirt on the go at the moment; one is in the style of a dress I saw in Vogue by Givenchy. It's a white lace dress, which I loved. Decided to take the idea of lace over fabric and make my own version. Givenchy's had long sleeves and was a more cream colour. Mine has short sleeves and is white. Gone for a slash-neckline and a fitted top around the bust, with my usual flowing skirt section. Going to use the same buttons as I used on my waistcoat, (gold, with anchors in the centre surrounded by black). Thinking of getting something else to add to it, as I'm worried it looks abit like a short wedding dress, so might go for some bright coloured ribbon to put around the bottom and sleeves. But still deciding on that. The skirt I'm making has an elasticated waist, so it's easy to get on and off, and I didnt want a zip on it, as it would mess up the design. Gone for plain white fabric underneath, the on top of it I had some Egyptian Hessian fabric that I got really cheap ages ago. I've started to pleat this horizontally, so the pleats are going across instead of downwards, then this will be sewn on top of the plain white. Not to sure how it's going to look, but thought it might be quite interesting with the mix of vertical and horizontal pleats. Plus, I like the white colour as I'm going to be able to wear it with any colour top.

Working on some more designs today for my Portfolio. Moving on from the sea-inspired section, (final pictures will appear soon) and onto darker clothing, in the style of 'Gothic Glamour'. Black and everything else gothic, really isn't my style, but I'm taking parts of it that I like and adapting them into other designs, such as lots of lace being layered. So far I've got a couple of designs for LBD's.
After that, I'm thinking of doing some tailored designs, in honour of one of my all-time favourite designers, Chanel. Still really wanting to go see that Coco before Chanel film...
Got about a quarter of my portfolio done now, many clothing designs and about 5 pieces. That's not including all my A-Level work that some of which I will hopefully be able to include. Also done afew patterns and prints in a mini-sketchbook, that are ideas of what I could print onto fabric. This is 1 of them, still not coloured in, but I'm not sure what colour to do. Was thinking of keeping it a simple black and white, or going for a variety of colours.



Some of the prints are going to be put onto different materials etc. For example, I screwed up some gold tissue paper to give it a nice crumbled look, and sewed it onto paper using black zig-zag stitch. Then I'm going to sew the pattern onto the tissue paper. Also going to do some mono-prints and screen-prints of some onto fabrics.
I think it's all off to a pretty good start, and I still have about 3-4months before interviews will start.

Off to London on Monday with a friend, going to see the V&A, who have a future fashion exhibition up at the moment and then off to Oxford Street for shopping. Should be good :) And she also happens to have a fashion blog to,

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