6 posts tagged “fashion”

Seriously people, we all worked really hard to get here.  please come to the show, there are tickets still available!

    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.

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 Today really hasn't gone to well.  I feel apathetic.  i feel like giving up.  i feel like i want to float in the ocean of life and let it's currents take me wherever.  Thats how i get when i start to panic.  i can feel the rug (the stability of school) being pulled out from underneath me and I'm searching for an edge to grab.  everything is unfinished right now and i need to feel that accomplishment buzz.  i went to school late this morning and then when i got there i realized that i was missing the only pattern pieces i needed to work on today.  so i came back home and now I'm sitting here feeling defeated.  blogging, about feeling defeated.  closing my eyes and curling up sounds like the best idea right now.  am i on too much medication am i not on enough?  where is the pill for optimism, or the one that cures self doubt?  My apologies to those that are new to this blog, this is a little personal and i don't expect you to understand.

UGH!!!  I'm also missing the BSG premier!!! frak!

so who wants to buy a $100 VIP ticket to my fashion show??  I need to sell 10 of them.  It would be a very posh little vacation to San Francisco, see the sights, go to the museums, eat the amazing food go to a swanky cocktail party and fashion show... come on people, this event will rock your socks off!

9 hours later....

there is nothing that cheers me up more that criticizing the beautiful people....  so after finding my pattern pieces and moap-blogging i rushed back to school for our last model casting call.  I love sizing up these glamazon girls and rejecting them straight away and then making redeem themselves by walking down the run way like a pro, relaxed with attitude, in heels or without.  it makes me feel good to be hard on other people. 

after i perked up a bit i got more work done, with sisi's assistance.  i'll have to check the list i made today and see if i accomplished enough to leave by 12:30 or 1am.  only this time i hope i won't get stuck in traffic.  ya it was midnight and there was traffic.  they closed half the freeway entrances in the city and it all bottlenecked.  serious irritation.

i love macro shots of just about anything.  so here are some good ones i took today of the machines i work on at school.

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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.

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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.

pleated vest old collar and zouave pants

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floor length dress, with hood and cat suit

floor length dress, with hood and cat suit, back

oh and i got a new haircut.

New Hair

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and this is my new favorite outfit:
Motorcycle Jacket - vintage
Top, skirt, leggings - target
scarf, necklace - H&M
shoes - vans

New favorite outfit

It's Monday so it's knitwear night!  but not before i rediscover my love of the all but forgotten public library.  people!  it's like netflix for books!  i can check out 40 things at once!  I can download audiobooks from their affiliate website netlibrary.com!!  however i refuse to download e-books because i find that to be blasphemous. I'm going to go to the main branch of the OPL later this week for some historical costume/textile research.  I'm writing on fashion and it's importance in 19th century novels.  info like that is found in books, not the internet that is crawling with ren-faire freaks and reenactment nerds (no offence, but historically accurate you frequently arent!).  so it looks like i still <3 the library....

now on to the knit shit!

ok so this is the last time i use all black in a swatch.  this is cables with ladders and faux ribbing on the end.

This is recycled cotton yarn that we got from goodwill and this is my experiment with holding and braiding and with real ribbing.

i have a partial garment or glove or something due next week, guh along with a new garment and collection, so much work! But i think i will go with the cables and ladders and ribbing for my arm-warmer/ fingerless glove thing i only have to do one but there are some over achievers in the class that are doing actual garments and i hate them.  but i have a ton of shit due so i need to stop blogging and start working my ass off, litterally, i mean i'm sure i've mentioned how much i hate being as big as i am.  i would love to be america ferrera size (shes a 12 i think).  ugh, thats a whole other blog.  maybe after therapy tomorrow i'll blog more about that....