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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Karen Walker's

Photo credits: http://www.theselby.com/2_25_11_MikKarenWalker/

Friday, April 15, 2011

Cate Blanchett / Del Kathryn Burton

Remember this post from last year? Well, today I went to the 2011 Archibald Prize exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW and saw Del Kathryn Burton's most recent painting of Cate Blanchett (wearing Alexander McQueen) and her 3 sons. When you go up close to the canvas, you finally appreciate the intricacy of her work.

Photo credits: http://karenwoodburygallery.blogspot.com/2011/04/archibald-wynne-and-sulman-prize.html

Monday, April 4, 2011

Ocean

Photo credits: http://thevamoose.tumblr.com/post/4186883996#notes

Sunday, April 3, 2011

See Through

Photo credits: http://www.thecherryblossomgirl.com/queensland%E2%80%99s-whitsundays-part-ii/13054/

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Little Creatures

Photo credits: http://vanillascented.freshnet.se/2011/03/26/viii/; http://seaofshoes.typepad.com/sea_of_shoes/2011/03/some-favorite-things.html

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Up & Down

Photo credits: http://www.fashiontoast.com/2011/03/milan-photo-diary.html

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Photo credits: http://www.ghibliworld.com/images/pieterbruegheltheelder.jpg

Monday, March 14, 2011

Lands Of Emptiness

I know I've been neglecting the art/design side of my blog...unavoidable since I've started working in fashion, I'm afraid...

This sculpture by Noriko Ambe caught my eye. Found via The Vamoose - she did a gorgeous post on inspiration from Mother Nature.

Photo credits: http://www.norikoambe.com/works/2008w0005p01.html

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Flutter By

Photo credits: http://seaofshoes.typepad.com/sea_of_shoes/2011/02/antiquing-.html

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Directions

My boss just told me I get to come on their next sales/buying trip! Yay! (Not exactly New York Fashion Week but still...)

Photo credits: http://afterdrk.freshnet.se/2011/02/17/nyfw-day5-part2/

Monday, February 14, 2011

Post Secret

Photo credits: http://www.postsecret.com/

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Marmite / Miu Miu

Photo credits: http://www.thecoveteur.com/Harley_Viera_Newton

Monday, January 17, 2011

Puppy Tales

Photo credits: http://stylemeromy.com/2011/01/hanging-with-mr-smith/

Thursday, January 13, 2011

I Ate The Rainbow Up

By Del Kathryn Burton.

Photo credits: http://www.kwgallery.com/artist/del%20kathryn-barton/1

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Sketchbook: Tailoring

The other day I spent an hour at the bookshop perusing through Hywel Davies' new coffee table book, Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks. I'm fascinated by where designers draw inspiration from, how they workshop ideas, how they select colors and fabrics, etc....Anyways, I thought you might enjoy a little peek at the visual diary from my tailoring project last year. Researching and sketching is by far my favorite step in the design process. I'm a lazy pattern-maker and an impatient sewer!

Our brief was to design a three-piece tailored outfit in the monochromatic value scale (black, gray, white) inspired by a modern object and an organic object. These are my "notes" from our Color Theory class. In the end I settled on a low major scale (mostly black with a highlight of white).

I chose a Lamborghini and the Royal Goliath Beetle as my sources of inspiration for color, texture, silhouette and mood. The beetle image is from The Vamoose. I found the car pics on Kanye's blog.

In the past, I would always design a garment and then go look for fabrics that would work, but last year my fashion design teacher pushed us to select fabrics first and then start designing with them in mind. On the left are my fabric swatches and on the right are some fabric manipulations I discovered on a craft blog called Mantua Maker.

Nicholas Huxley, the head teacher at The Sydney Institute, likes to slip a few extra twists into our briefs. For tailoring, we had to create our own fabric manipulation. I found this silver laminated wool tweed at Tessuti and decided to create a gradated color palette by spray painting parts of it black. Fun and toxic! I also bought metal gears and cogs on Etsy, spray painted them silver and hand-appliqued them onto another section of my garment.

This was my almost-finalized design. I tweaked quite a few things while I was toile-ing it. Our design teachers have to sign off our designs but we continue consulting with them and our pattern-making and sewing teachers as we construct the garments, so things inevitably change along the way. It used to really frustrate me but over time I've learned to go with the flow.

At panel, we're marked not only on design and construction but styling. Towards the end of the project I did some brainstorming on hair, make-up, shoes and accessories. When you're a fashion student you learn which shops have flexible return policies!

I'm done with the course now but my New Year's resolution is to keep clipping and sketching. It's really fun and satisfying to look back at where an idea started.

Photo credits: http://justfad.blogspot.com