Finale Designe ( in colour! )

right so something went wrong in the scanning process. The colours have gone funny. FYI i am not making an orange suit (5th outfit down) it will be in CAMEL. and I don't know why the backgrounds came out blue.

Oh well.

Will all be back to normal when I get back to Bournemouth and sort it out.
Going fabric shopping tomorrow, i can't wait to get it all sorted out and buy everything i need. Must remember buttons and threads this time.
I will then only have 2 complete days to cut out ALL my pattern pieces before getting back to the studio.

Is 'diarise' a word?

Some important dates for my diary..

10am Monday 12th April - deadline for first completed and fully styled outfit.

Tues 13th April - Gail and Hilton Green going through portfolios

Thurs 15th and Fri 16th April - Hilton Green and Alex Brownless (Artsthread) working on Artsthread presentation. Kelly Allen available to help with portfolio selection.

Tues 20th April - Fri 23rd April - pre-selection group crits for GFW - have minimum of 4 fully styled completed outfits

Mon 26th April - professional photographer in to photograph most completed collections for GFW stands.

28th April - British Fashion Councils Graduate preview day

Thurs 29th April - GFW FINAL SELECTIONS with Lesley Goring and Anthony Bednall.
Kelly Allen available to help with portfolio selections.

Tick tock...

So the toiles are well on the way..and though not completely finished I thought I would get on with making in my real fabric to try and give myself a bit of a kick up the arse as time is getting the better of me.


Unfortunately, through a massive mistake on my behalf (I forgot in my rushing around like a headless chicken state, to buy buttons), I did not get a completed outfit finished in-time to have it entered to see if it could go forward into a competition to get it photographed by Rankin...better luck next time.

UPDATE!!!

the deadline has been postponed so i now have until 10 am on monday the 12th april to get my first completed outfit with a fully styled model. This would have been ideal had I not left the beginnings of the outfit in the studio over the easter break whilst I am back home...great.

Toiles

My midway stage review is creeping upon me very quickly....i have my one on wednesday which means i have a lot to do for my toiles if i am supposed to show 6 outfits!

I had a tutorial with Chris Kelly today (Theatredelamode) who gave me some helpful advice to do with fastenings and pockets and fabrication.
Bearing in mind that "men like functionality", I am carefully considering my pockets and pocket bags and the placement of these along with the fastening of trousers etc.

He suggested that I get all my trouser paper patterns completed and made up by wednesday with an indication of fabric and colour for my crit....so I have a lot to do!
Also recomended that I grab a boy and don't let him go away all day so I can get an idea how my clothes hang on the body as opposed to a mannequin which really helped.

He tried on my cape and as soon as it was on him it came to life and was much easier to tell what I liked about it and what I wanted to change.

Here are some toiles so far..

Sketchbook Magazine

I was told the other day we had to submit either an A2 board or a digital piece into the Sketchbook Magazine for GFW to see if it would get picked. Here is what i came up with..

Fall 2010

Had a little look on GQstyle.com to see the new autumn winter 2010 collections on the catwalks.
Here are some of my favoruites.


John Galliano





Jill Sander



Etro







Dunhill



Dries Van Noten

Burberry Prorsum


Ann Demeulemeester

Jackets

I have been making my toiles in the studio for the last couple of weeks fighting for space and machines, here are the jacket designs i have been working on. (I have since re designed the trousers).