So me and my friend went to London yesterday which was tres good. Went to the V&A first and had a look around the fashion exhibition and a temporary exhibition up at the moment called 'Futuristic Fashion' which was all designs made by some students at the Royal college of Art which was amazing. Definately gave me plenty of ideas for future designs and got some good photographs. Out of all the outfits in the Future fashion exhibition, I think this was my favourite:
I really like the shape and just the general style/ colour of it. Some of the designs were abit to weird and OTT for me, but I guess that was part of the concept.
After the V&A, headed off to Oxford Street and the amazing TOPSHOP. I think I got more ideas in Topshop than anywhere else, saw so many gorgeous things that I'd happily let someone buy for me. Most of the dresses I liked were £50+ which exceeded my total of £20 spending money. Not going to copy any of the designs I saw 'cos I think that's cheating abit, but got loads of ideas that I can adapt from what I saw.
Really into winter clothes at the moment, brought a looovely chunky-knit cardi from primark yesterday, £7, bargain! Been wearing it today onto of my floral summer dress I made (picture in previous post), my strechy rose belt around the waist and my usual armful of bangles and pearl bracelets. Also really into more dressy-dresses (as i call them, aka evening dresses) right now. Quite alot of friends/ family's birthdays over the next few months so seems appropiate I start making some. Also currently helping my friend pick a dress for her Winter Ball which is looking more likely by the day that I will be making the dress for her! Which is tres exciting as I will be paid :) Also been repeatedly asked to make a dress for someone else, which I am hoping to get round to before the end of the year, just need for her to choose some fabric! Things are starting to get pretty exciting now, someone even stopped me in the street the other day and asked where my dress was from because she loved it, which was amazing to answer back "i made it" :)
Read this really interesting article the other day from a link I got sent on Twitter (yes, i'm becoming obsessed with it also). However I can't find the link anymore! It was all about what is actually "fashionable" nowadays. I agreed with alot of what was in there. How some people automatically class themselves as "fashionable" because they wear clothing from Topshop or read Vogue. It all seems to be based upon what the media deems as "fashionable", instead of what the person truly likes. Personally, I think "fashionable" is a term that can never fully be used to describe someone in the same way that "normal" can be, because it varies for every person. Everyone is entitled to their opinions and free speach is all cool, but there's a point when it becomes ridiculous that someone bitches about another persons clothes or uses that as a reason to avoid or be cruel to them. Slightly taking lines from my personal statement here but, everyone is a part of the fashion industry. Whatever they wear whether it's Chanel or from Oxfam, it was still designed, made and then marketed/ promoted. Time, effort and imagination goes into every piece of clothing wherever it comes from. So maybe if certain people didn't keep thinking they was better than everyone else simply because of their choice of clothing and accepted that infact, everyone is either "fashionable" or "unfashionable", no in-betweens, no exceptions, everyone is still human, that makes us all equal- then the fashion industry could genuinely make a difference to the issue of low self-esteem and eating disorders because people wouldn't feel ashtough they have to be like the girl on the cover of Vogue.
Anyway, rant over.
I can be an opinionated little bitch when I want to..
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