womens wear skirt.

Ive just handed in my portfolio for womens wear. i had to research and design a skirt based on the work of Tony Cragg. I found his work quite repetitive but still interesting. I liked how it was all sculptural pieces in his exhibition and this is what inspired me for the design of my skirt.

Me and zoe worked together and had a laugh all the way through it. I designed the top part of the skirt and zoe designed the bottom part of the skirt. This time it went really smoothly and we had no problems  making it, thank god!

just finished!

Im a Fashion Communication student, so i thought it would be best if i did the photography and the photoshop work and zoe to model our skirt. We were buzzing when it had been snowing in Gala so we could do our photoshoot outside! Zoe was freezing standing outside in a sheer shirt and our skirt and i was wearing my big coat taking our photos! 

Our brief was to do our photoshoot in the style of i-D magazine....

photoshop version of photo shoot.

A little catch up.

Its been a while since i last wrote on my blog, so i thought i would fill you all in on what's been happening.


For BBC children in need, Heriot Watt put on a charity fashion show at uni, showing all first years shirts that we designed and made. It was such a good night, i helped give out drinks to people as they came in then mingled for a bit then 3 glasses later it was time for the show. We took our seats and commented on everyones shirts. I didn't even realise it was my shirt coming down the catwalk, "ee thats a good one i would wear that..OH wait, its mine!" Typical!

Mine and Zoes Shirt on the catwalk.

Another thing thats happened is that i've finished uni for christmas now. BUZZ. My women's wear portfolio has been handed in and i am done for first semester. 
Being home for 3 weeks is so weird but loving it. Seeing my friends from home and my family is unreal but missing my gala girls!
Before i finished uni and it was time to go home, i had a little "class test", well what i thought was a class test in Fashion Marketing. Clearly it wasn't a little test when i walked into the lecture hall and saw little individual tables and invigilators wandering about. 
Definitely a full on exam. My bad.

from fabric to skirt in 5 minutes.

Sewing class today was actually really good. We've moved on from making our shirts to making skirts. Who knew you could do so much with a skirt, it literally blew my mind.

After we put in an invisible zip and darts in our skirt we practiced 3D modelling with fabric to create to a new design for a skirt.

It was defiantly a good team effort by me and Zoe.


Proud is an understatement. 

womenswear 3D model skirt.

blah blah blah.

Just got back from a meeting to be part of Heriot Watt Uni fashion magazine. It actually sounds really good. Journalism is defiantly something that I'm interested in and want to do in the future after studying Fashion Communication. I love to just sit and write about fashion and what’s going on in my life. So being part of the magazine is defiantly for me.

The awkward first meeting, choosing a name. It is harder than you think to come up with names! I put a few in there but let’s just see what happens.  

I put my name down to be a fashion writer. I've had a little experience writing for my sixth form online magazine as a fashion writer but that’s about it, so hopefully being involved in this can help me in the future.

ELLE here i come. 

Because I'm a student.

I'm really looking forward to this weekend after a messy “Galaween” last weekend. Dressed up as a dead doll with all of the people on my floor roaming the streets of Gala, just a normal Thursday, right? Seriously it was a really good night though. I'm from Newcastle but I've never been too drunk to go out, being put to bed at half 11 on a Saturday night is a epic fail. All that effort to get dressed up to not go out. 

The shame.

Galaween 2011.
Block A's dead dolls..

Women's Wear assignment.

Well the deadline for my first assignment for Women's wear has just passed. It was such a good feeling handing it all in, believe me. So much hard work went into it.. I had to design and make a shirt inspired by Scottish Heritage. The obvious things come to mind, such as tartan, but i had to think outside of the box.

I decided to go for the classic, royal inspired look. My shirt had a simple silhouette, capped sleeves, and a peter pan collar, i know, it does sound good right? Well sewing isn’t my strongest point, because I'm a fashion communication student, but still i have it my best shot and at least it turned out alright actually! 6 weeks and god knows how many late nights paid off in the end.

I was just messing around on WGSN when i came across, Christopher Kane's spring/summer 2012 collection which showed at London Fashion Week this year. In his collection i found a simple but beautiful shirt which i wish i was very impressed with.

Christopher Kane spring/summer 2012

Obviously it’s not got anything on mine...

Fashion Illustration, Kelly Smith.

For my latest assignment at uni, I've had to produce a portfolio and part of it had to include different styles of fashion illustration. I'm not going to lie and say i knew exactly who i was going to include in my portfolio because i really didn't. But i stumbled across a fashion illustrator called Kelly Smith. I think her work is absolutely amazing. I like the way her illustrations are so lifelike and are perfect for commercial use. It looks as if they have been lifted straight from a magazine. Safe to say her work has featured heavily in my illustration section of my portfolio because of this. The piece below is my favourite one by her, and probably my favourite fashion illustration I've seen.

Can’t wait to see what else she has to show. 

  Kelly Smith.

old school.

Dressing up + getting drunk = School Disco.
Well last night was the best night of freshers!
pre drinks in the halls and drinking games was bound to end up as a messy night and it defiantly did, but it was unreal. and to make it even better, i actually wasn't that bad this morning when i woke up. BUZZ.

geek glasses, tie, shirt, side pony tail. LUSH.

day one.

first day of freshers. thought it was a good idea to have a few drinks and stuff so i would get to know people. Well that plan backfired when i ended up getting taken home by a girl who i'd literally just met, falling over and vomming all over my room...

Classic.

Viv.

Vivienne Westwood is my idol. I love how her designs are classic, yet still have a feminine touch to them. Harsh tailoring mixed with delicate patterns and fabrics is hard to pull off but this is one lady who can do it. 

Im thinking that this will be my next purchase to add to my collection of VW bags. Moving to Scotland for uni has got me thinking that maybe i need some tartan in my life and Viv's bag is exactly it. 

Freshers.

Now this is what ive been waiting for! One whole week of partying and meeting new people. UV Party, School Disco, Beach Party and a Silent Disco..What more can I ask for! Sounds like its going to be one messy week.

bring it on.

Gala?

Cant believe that tomorrow I actually move to Scotland for uni. Its so scary to think that im going to have to do things actually by my self now! I cant wait to meet loads of new people though and hopefully have the best 4 years ever.
Its such a big thing moving from Newcastle, where ive had some of the best nights out ever and spent all of my wages in the Metro Centre to move to Galashiels where im going to have to start from the beginning.

Im going to have to learn the Gala way of life now!