8 posts tagged “fashion design”
Tonight is the strip tease auction/fashion show. all my garments are pressed and ready to go, and now they even have labels in them! this is the outfit i donated to them for the auctioning. my model, the lovely miss kara is not nearly as tall as the 5'11 soo joo who wore this outfit for the show in may. so the top looked like a mini dress, which is how i had originally envisioned the piece, so kara will wear that as a dress. nd since i cant un-donate the pants that go with it, just threw together a top that would go with them. so yes i gave them another top but now i get two looks in the show. give a little, get a little.
I'm pretty proud of the top i made, it took me three hours start to finish, it fits and is cleanly finished. all my favorite things. not to mention it's all kinds of sexy! without further ado.
Also, if you will notice the form that my lovely top is on. That would be my graduation gift from my chuug. She had only been used once and if a full figure, meaning she has legs! I'm very happy to have her in my design arsenal. can't be a draper without her!
So this is how the dress3 turned out. of course the dress that was seriously finalized 3 days ago and my instructors have never even seen a mock up. I'm hoping this knocks sock off.
So my Tuesday starts off like any other, reckless driving, illegal parking, and still five minutes late for work. Today just had special written all over it, I could feel it. I come in check the e-mail, update the calendar, get things ready for the day. Then the idiot parade started, one by one they came with needy, desperate faces, asking for hand holding and molly codling. Why would their instructor ask them to come down here to use technology without showing them how first, or asking us to do an orientation? Especially with expensive material like our fast positive acetate! $6.00 per linear foot! People start making mistakes on their print jobs and are shocked when they have to pay for them! One of them was sneaky and stole their print job after they had screwed it up twice before!! And all of a sudden I'm the bad guy for enforcing the rules. All the mistakes that they made are my fault as well don't you know! I just can't believe that she would steal her print job! Never in the 3 years I have been working here have I heard of that occurring! We sell everything here at wholesale prices, we aren't for profit! You are just stealing from yourself and your classmates to stupid twit! Work rant over!
Fashion rant engage!
So after retelling my tale of upset about my seamstress experience with my classmates and my most beloved male class mate decided that it was this hens turn to get plucked. Apparently my seamstress is one of his personal heroes and he was pissed to hear me "bad mouth" him and that I should be forced to sew my own garments and bla bla blaaa bla bla. I almost cried. But the other girls in the class told me not to worry that he is just moody and crabby and goes off on everyone. I’m just at the point where I feel like if want to add to my stress level right now you are on my shit list and you should expect retribution. Not now, but someday and in someway.
I <3 my second seamstress, she knows how to handle my retardation, and she has a ton of custom bridal experience, so ladies if you need a dress designed I officially know someone who can make it and fit it! Exciting prospects!
Ps- on fonts. Century Gothic is the font i have been using for my resume and business cards and hopefully soon, my website. san serif fonts are slick and modern as opposed to serif font that i actually find harder to read. i have bunch of graphic/ art fonts that i love. my most recent being "f*** you las vegas", it's edgy and distracted i like it. Another favorite that i discovered when i first got my ibook in 2004 was futura, i thought that was the coolest thing sliced bread, but going to an art school with an amazing graphic design program has taught me a few things about typography.
note: none of these are the right colors (except for the vest) yet and all of them have to be tweeked in one way or another. we'll start seeing final garments by the end of this month.
Motorcycle Jacket - vintage
Top, skirt, leggings - target
scarf, necklace - H&M
shoes - vans
i got the disk from my conceptual fashion design instructor and i thought i would share a few of my favorite moments...
This is me presenting something i don't like. i finished it, but i didn't like it. see how i'm kinda choking myself.
This project was called the mess of clean. i dont really remeber what my concept was really about but it was made using all the scraps my new serger had made.
here are the poster and interior for the garment.
This is Emily and i in active bullshit mode. we were theonly two who knew anything about spec-ing a garment, and we were also the two who cared the least about tearing something ugly apart and making it new again. i mean that was so last semester, pffft, ssssst!
This is how the garbage bag dresses turned out. i forgot how much i really enjoyed this project and it's outcome. i forgot how nice my work can be when there aren't huge demands placed on me and there isn't a ton of pressure to produce.
This is some of my newer work in monochrome. my colors have yet to be decided. all my fabrics are silks, charmuse, organza, cross dye dupioni so far. I have newer designs for this collection but, one of the heads of the fashion department picked it out to be in the nave for alumni night and open house night on the san francisco campus! :)
this weekend i helped my roomate build her fall wardrobe. it was a great adventure at the nordstroms rack in san leandro. the sad part was my walk thru the plus sized section. ugly empire tops followed by even uglier wrap tops and giant boxy t-shirts with hideous designs. i found some svoboda jeans on sale but not a god dammned one in my size!! oh well, it's not like i had money for clothes anyways. i was well compensated for my stylist abilities; i got a bottle of my bed head shampoo, a ceramic boar bristle round brush, a burrito, a rice krispies treat, peanut m&ms, and corona. it's like $11/hr.
so while i was out shopping today i studied some knits. in the most illegal way possible. well i don't know if it's really illegal but i doubt that they would be happy had they known. this is what i found!
my roomate tiffany in a french connection UK capelette with travelling pointelles (i think) and reverse jersey pleated nicely into a big ribbed collar. she was not a fan of the garment but like a dear, amused me for the sake of homework.
i dont understand this cable, it was probably done by hand. sweater by premise.
this is a great brand for adorable feminine knitwear. their pointelle work is nice but i was more interested in its edging around the collar and sleeves.
So I'm answering phones again. elderly women begging me for assistance i can't provide. "it-it-it just goes too fast, and i can't seem to-to-to leave a voice mail, will you help me, please will you help me?". I'm thinking to myself, "if you can't operate a telephone how do you intend to take a college class where they use computers?". too harsh? perhaps, but my heart shrinks an inch every year I'm exposed to the "real world". Other irritations about operating the switchboard include: questions about the staff's whereabouts and schedules assuming i am their keeper, Tout le monde: i just answer the phone!!!! no, i don't know where they are, no i don't know if she's on leave, no i don't know if he's on lunch, i have no idea why they wont answer their phone, i'm sorry their voicemail is full. *shudder* pam (the woman that usually does this) is either a saint or a clairvoyant or both.
the weather has been cloudy and rainy the last two days. what does that mean for me? pain in my knees. unrelenting aches. My stomach doesn't like pain meds right now and the glucosamine doesn't work in the rain for whatever reason so it's craptacular until it dries up. why? I'm 23 dammit, this is entirely inappropriate!
So I'm really hoping i get to go out on a date this weekend. i love getting to go out to eat and taking in a movie with Matt. i know we live together and eat together and watch tv and movies together all the time but it's different when we get to go out, it's special and we never get to do it and i like it. even when we do go out, we never fully indulge. sometimes i cant order drinks, or dessert. i suppose i just need to learn how to be happy with less, Matt is all about less. i on the other hand feel that less is less and I'll always want more especially of what I'm told i can't have. i hate it when he is in control of the money, he's very strict and it's a nightmare grocery shopping, i literally have to ask for things like a kid and it's up to him whether i can have them or not. how did a paragraph about hoping to get a date turn into me complaining about my tightwad man? i suppose they are intrinsically linked.
so i'm not any more inspired today than i was yesterday, just more decided that the direction i chose in the first place is the right one and i should stick with it. i feel like i should be pushing myself but on the same hand i don't want to be burnt out on this before it even gets off the ground. i want to love my senior collection is that too much to ask?!?
today was internship day. I had finished a little project i was asked to do and it was so well received that it's going into the spring line. so i made a tech pack for it and she hired me to make 5 more samples. so I'm a legit designer now! I've been super stoked all day, grinning like an idiot. My resume is going to shine like the sun!
*2hrs later: all of a sudden i feel like what should be a blessing is a huge burden. I'm panicking, like I'm not ready for this. leave it to me to overcerebralize something so awesome into a nightmare.
so that was the majority of today's excitement. tiffany is going to take me out for dinner tonight to celebrate. we are going to eat yummy Indian food i think. if it's not too late when she gets home. that poor girl has a 2 hour commute both ways, on public transit. nothing worse in the bay area than riding public transit. granted it has one of the best service areas of any public transit system, it's poor customer service and disgusting, unsafe atmosphere cancel out anything good i would have to say about it. Ungsung would have a heyday with ac transit and their customer service!!
After dinner i think I'm going to curl up with my new Anita Blake book and call it a night! The Harlequin is the 15th book in the series. If any of you know about the series it should be considered a guilty pleasure (lol that's the title of the first book in the series!). However, i show no shame in loving my smutty vampire books! This one is about the secret vampire police, called what else, the harlequin.
Tomorrow is back to the grind at the dot com. this is my last week there. i looked at the calendar and the 16th is a Monday which i spend at del forte. so Friday might be my last day. i will miss working and getting money. but i'm excited for free time where i can enjoy my money. like camping this weekend. i'm trying to a trip together for the Monterey-Santa Cruz area. wish me luck!
