90's Kid through and through!

New project on the go: Designing A/W 2013/14 for Marc Jacobs. 
The trend I'm researching from is called Hacktivate. It's very DIY inspired, with a retro childish feel. It's really making me feel nostalgic for the 90's. As my key inspiration I've been looking at a Kidult type view on the trend. I want to bring the idea of my childhood into prints and silhouette shapes to make the designs have a fun element to them. So... here's my top 5 childhood toys;

5. Furby, I remember getting one of these for my 9th Birthday =D

  

4.Pokemon Cards, every kid collected them when I was little.

3. Sylvannian Families, I never actually had any but I used to LOVE going round to my friends house to play with them, she had it allll.

 

2. Polly Pocket. I actually had this one I loved it, when you pressed it the button bubbles went into the bath. Shame the Polly's are no longer pocket sized. 

1. Coming in at No1... Barbie of course! I LOVED my barbies I had a friend who would cut the hair off hers and ruin all their clothes and I never understood why, I wanted mine PERFECT! And I of course had the spice girl barbies, What 90's girl didnt?!

 

 

Ok, so this may seem a little off track. But the idea to take this in a "Kidult" type direction had a feeling a little sentimental =D

Zara S/S 2013

These trousers were pain stakinggggg the zip was a nightmare and I still don't feel that they're perfect but I must admit I'm UBER proud of what I've acheived. These are for Spring/Summer 2013 for the middle market level, Zara.

Tailoring Processes!

Ok so i'm going back a little now to before Christmas...For my tailoring project I wasnt too pleased with my final piece so I decided to make a coat so I could use it in my Portfolio for interviews to work alongside this brief. Heres a little preview of the finished piece.

Little Update!!

I've not posted for a while so thought i'd just do a quick work update. The brief i'm working on at the moment is to create a high summer tailored look. I have designed a 6 look collection for Zara s/s 2013. I'll take through one of my trouser designs through to production. I'll update once again when i've made them =] 

Photography Elective...final photos

These are my final images for my photography elective. I would really like to (if I can find one) present the images in an old photo album as if they are real old photos from the 60s/70s. I have edited them in photoshop so that they have a warm filter. I did this by adding light using lense correction and then using a warm photo filter and finally altering the shadows and highlights.



A productive outing =]

To start me off with my tailoring research I decided to go out and take photos concentrating on shapes I looked a little at clothing and architecture but I mainly concentrated on furniture. These are the raw images I'll see what happens when I start working from them in my research.