Soooo, looks like I’ve gone a little quiet here again…but that’s good…actually life’s very good. Indeed I’m at my best when I am busy and busy I have been! Creating accessories based on concealment and the unexpected. This has taken me on a fabulous journey of slashing, burning, melting and shoe-making! Here’s some of my not-quite finished shoes….
Can you guess my inspiration?!
So many things rocking my world right now and this final design in one of them…
Love the flow of this one!
Other things rocking my world right now?
- The landscaped knit dress (above) from Missoni’s Summer 2013 collection.
- Eyeshadow palettes… urban decay, lancome & benefit are doing it for me BIGTIME!
- Sophia Webster & Nicholas Kirkwood Shoes..amazing!
Such a simple design……but it just takes me to that happy place!
Tuesdays…my new favourite day…well for this week anyway!
A recent final design for Fashion Textiles and how this would looked mocked up on an outfit from Zara.
Another recent final design for fashion textiles and how I envisage this could be used on a top designed for a high street retailer.
So, it’s the Easter Holidays and I’m *meant* to be having two weeks off from designing whilst the kids are off school, but so far the obsessive in me hasn’t quite managed it and I have totally got carried away with a new brief. In one week, I’ve nearly filled a whole new sketchbook (and brought a sewing machine and read a design book!) Eeeek!! So bad, but I can’t help myself and I’m pretty sure there are far worse things I could be doing!
This week (apart from eating lots of chocolates!) I was excited to share a peek into one of my sketchbooks with the lovely Sue Bulmer, you can check out the feature by clicking here.
Just a little over seven months ago, I started a BA Hons in Design (Surface).
In that small amount of time, my life has changed dramatically and I have grown so much as a designer. I have found new mediums to work with and experimented with new techniques as well as spending my days hanging out with some awesome people.
Although I am still a Photoshop and Illustrator geek… and I will ALWAYS be ‘MAC’ till I die… I have found a new love for drawing and filling sketchbooks….a new love for research and trends. But one of the biggest new loves I have found is that for Fashion Textiles.
I had always embarked on this journey to use my designs as pretty papers, wallpapers, accessories, cushions and homeware, but now I see them on hangers in Topshop, River Island and All Saints.
With that in the back of my mind and the persuasion of others, I have chosen to specialise my degree in ‘Fashion Textiles’ as oppose to ‘Surface Design’.
Been at Uni has really opened my eyes and Surface is so much more than my vision of ‘Print’, it is all about ceramics, 3D, Plaster, Metal…intergrating all manners of surface to play an important part in the final design.
Whilst Fashion Textiles is all about the manipulation of fabric from print through to its cut and hang….i love it!
I am so excited by this little turn in direction and can’t wait to show you some of my work for the previous two modules.
I’ve been so busy creating and having fun, there is plenty to come!
A mixed media fabric design created for fashion textiles using drawing, stitch and collage.
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