Tuesday, 26 June 2012
New Designers in London
Down at New Designers in London with seven class mates exhibiting our final year work just now. London is beautiful right now, the weather is much warmer than Aberdeen, even when it's slightly overcast, though my hay fever is starting up. So this exhibition is an exciting experience for us to meet contacts and network with people in the fashion industry. We have been setting up our exhibition space over these past two days and now we are ready for it all to begin tomorrow with the press coming to look at everyone's stalls. Our friends at Grays in the textiles course are also exhibiting and are only a few stalls down. It has been fun having a snoop around everyone else's exhibits, and I have noticed that most courses showing are mainly textiles based degrees courses. I am looking forward to seeing what the creative bunch at Central Saint Martins are showing as I never got a change to look today.
Tomorrow is going to be one hell of a long day and I cannot wait!
Aymee
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Fashion show
So the fashion show is done, which is a relief as it means I now am pretty much free from Grays! These past four years have been beautiful though and I've met some super talented and über brilliant people. I will miss thee Grays building, not so much the workload.
Anyways enough of the heartfelt teary eyed talk. Here is a quick photo I got on my iPhone when working backstage on the Monday night show. Oh how exciting it was to see my collection standing before me as a whole. Also I have my thanks to give to the multi talented Jamie Johnstone, who not only had his own collection showing, but he kindly stepped in for one of my male models who was unfortunate enough to have been concussed the night before the events began. You can have a look at what Jamie is doing on his blog www.jaimecj.blogspot.com
Aymee
Anyways enough of the heartfelt teary eyed talk. Here is a quick photo I got on my iPhone when working backstage on the Monday night show. Oh how exciting it was to see my collection standing before me as a whole. Also I have my thanks to give to the multi talented Jamie Johnstone, who not only had his own collection showing, but he kindly stepped in for one of my male models who was unfortunate enough to have been concussed the night before the events began. You can have a look at what Jamie is doing on his blog www.jaimecj.blogspot.com
Aymee
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Friday, 1 June 2012
Studio Shoot
Je suis un chat finally got its limelight today in the photography studio at Gray's. I took the photo's myself and these are to be printed out in A3 to be hung at the degree show exhibition.
These garments will also be shown in the Gray's Fashion catwalk show on Sunday 17th and Monday 18th of June 2012, and you can buy tickets here.
Models: Joli Parker and Jonathon Knapper
Aymee :)
Friday, 18 May 2012
Teenie Post
I think you should look at this tumbr blog http://pauldraw.tumblr.com/ My boyfriend draws the weirdest shit. It's pretty cool.
Also the fashion show tickets are on sale for Gray's School of Art Stage Four Fashion Design to display their past years work to the public! You can buy tickets here: http://graysfashion.bigcartel.com/
AND I have my portfolio up on Arts Thread. Find it through this QR code below.
Just over two weeks til hand in. My stress level is at boiling point.
Now heres a really cute Corgi:
Also the fashion show tickets are on sale for Gray's School of Art Stage Four Fashion Design to display their past years work to the public! You can buy tickets here: http://graysfashion.bigcartel.com/
AND I have my portfolio up on Arts Thread. Find it through this QR code below.
Just over two weeks til hand in. My stress level is at boiling point.
Now heres a really cute Corgi:
Thats better :)
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Trip down to Glasgow
Myself and my pal Natalie went down to Glasgow this weekend past to get the rest of our fabric for our collections. After a few hours spent rummaging about the store, we decided on the materials and headed off to the lovely willow tea rooms, made famous by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, for lunch. There was a pop up shop in an underground basement bar which we stumbled across which had a lot of vintage clothing and kitch accessories. Just the type of place we adore! We both bought rings from a lovely stall. I bought a teacup ring (pictured below) and Natalie bought a ring in the shape of a tooth. Such an odd inspiration for a ring, but it was adorable nonetheless, especially when she had an alterier motive of using it to freak out her sister who has a fear of the little nashers!
Aymee
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Tights and tights and tights
I really love tights.
This obsession has had me hooked on finding more and more hosiery brands. And my long time favourite has to be Bebaroque. They are a duo based in Edinburgh that studied their degree's at the Glasgow School of Art. I adore how this brand is Scotland based as I am from Aberdeen just three hours north of Edinburgh! I now own seven Bebaroque items which I have bought from their website, eBay and also when I travelled down to Glasgow at the end of 2011 to attend their sample sale. And when I am no longer a skint student I will own many more :)
This morning I have spent my time going through my basket of tights, a sort of clear out I suppose. A few years ago my tights collection doubled, then tripled, and has continued to multiply to the point where I had to invest in a large basket to relocate them from the drawer they were spilling out of. It was kind of fun to find all these tights I have not seen in a very long time! I was aiming to get rid of the ones with holes that were unfixable (as of course a tiny hole can easily be stitched up and it gives me the chance to keep more! *Evil laugh*) I made three piles; intact tights, fixables and RIP (get it!).
This obsession has had me hooked on finding more and more hosiery brands. And my long time favourite has to be Bebaroque. They are a duo based in Edinburgh that studied their degree's at the Glasgow School of Art. I adore how this brand is Scotland based as I am from Aberdeen just three hours north of Edinburgh! I now own seven Bebaroque items which I have bought from their website, eBay and also when I travelled down to Glasgow at the end of 2011 to attend their sample sale. And when I am no longer a skint student I will own many more :)
Inspiration has definitely come from Bebaroque when designing my final collection at Gray's School of Art. Their use of print, sequins, beading and embellishment really are the little qualities I find interesting when applied to garments. I gave it a go at embellishing my own tights with my own designs in accordance with my final year brief. Here are a few of my designs below:
I cannot wait to design and make some more, but I must concentrate on finishing my collection first :)
Aymee
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