Miss You, Alexander McQueen.

I was really thinking today about how much of a loss it was when we lost Alexander McQueen from the fashion industry. He was really bringing something unique and innovative to the catwalks, shocking and frightening people at the same time. I'd give anything to be as talented as him, but I reckon it takes someone really special to get to his level. My favourite collection of his, well one of them, has to be Spring/Summer 2010, his last catwalk show whilst he was alive 'Platos Atlantis'. Its magical

Deadline is nearly over :)

Just got a few days until Tuesday to hand in all my design development work, and then next friday it will all be over. I've just finished my illustrations for Martin Margiela but I'm not too sure how I feel about them :/ I think they definitely looked better in my development journal as I'm not that great at photoshop.

I mean some of them would definitely look a lot better if I could have added more detail onto them, but they took me seven hours to do and I just didn't know how.
   Anyway, other exciting news. I got my first reply about a placement from a London Fashion magazine called "Fashion Insider" , so I could possibly be getting an interview which is really exciting. Im also thinking about applying for the charity "RAG" fashion show with my designs, as I just saw an e-mail about it on the Portal.

New design Inspiration

I am always on the look out for new fashion designers to inspire me. The kind of current design I look for is something that is edgy and unique. I love designs that just stand out and draw you into the page, making you think "That's incredible". I love the sense of the weird, strange and unusual.
The first designer who I've become fascinated by recently is Samantha Cole, London. She gains conceptual inspiration and really challenges the ideals of what is fashion and beauty. I love the alludes to architecture, fabric textures and shapes within her clothing

The second I chose to include in this blog is Lisa Shahno from Moscow, Russia. She has a huge fascination with geometry  which you can see incorporated in the garments she designs. She is an innovator, looking for new ways to create clothing for example the last image you will see underneath where she uses glow in the dark threads to make an impact.

Zoo magazine Fall 2010

Love love love this editorial in fall 2010 Zoo magazine. I'm inspired and I am designing when I get the chance

Speedo colloboration with 'From Somewhere'

Also I found this quite an interesting piece to read

http://www.speedo.com/en/speedo_brand/swimming_news/newsroom/swimming_news_3328.html

It tells you all about how Speedo colloborated with an ethical fashion label to transform old LZR racer suits from the old stock, into a fashion garment.

Iris Van Herpen

I was generally scanning the German fashion magazine, Zoo, online and came across dutch fashion designer Iris Van Herpen and couldnt help but be fascinated. From the A/W 2010 'Synesthesia' collection, theres no words to describe the garments but simply outstanding. The clothes are made mainly from leather strips. I've always loved cutting edge and unusual fashion and this is definitely a collection to be inspired by

Design Development

I Havent posted in a while because I've had soooo much uni work. Had two deadlines last week and it was mad! but was definitely worth the effort in terms of the design development project having found out I got a first for the group phase of our project :)
I'm currently enjoying the next phase of design development and thought I'd give a peek at some of the work I've been doing. I'm okay to put it up now after copyrighting it and all that jazz.