fedisa, graduate collection show . hello

 

e i g h t   o u t f i t s   .   e i g h t   m o n t h s   .   3   m i n u t e s   o f   s p o t  l i g h t

so . the long awaited exposure of {southern comfort} a graduate collection by Jenna Maree-Kipling has arrived .

The Fedisa Graduate Collection Show was held at the Cape Town Stadium, on Saturday the 5th November. 26 graduate collections, with a wonderful first year collaboration and a second year group effort. This year, we were lucky enough to have the Pink Collection - the creations of the current second year students for Breast Cancer awareness. Fedisa turned pink.

i have been working on my collection pieces throughout the year, but it has been the week that has really brought everything together. I made handbags, jewellry and head pieces. So in the end, my colour pallet choice was key on trend ;)

faded denims . destressed denims . white . peacock feathers . leather
very indie rock and roll

So, all in all. I cannot explain the feeling that follows you when you walk out onto that runway. It is one of accomplishment, happiness, pride and self worth. I could not believe I put that collection together. It was amazing.

thank you to every single person who congratulated me. thank you to those who came to the show to watch me. my Maree-Kipling-Timpson-Fitzel-Kirk-Rohland-Martin-Munro-George-Daniels-Prentice-Van-Straaten family . my home family and my extended family, I love you all.

this post will carry on over the next few as I will be receiving more photographs from other sources, but this is just a taste of what is to come.

{peace and love}

fedisa, hello. a graduates update .

picture one . the new fedisa campaign with nicci st. bruce of VAMP

picture two . drapery assignment inspired by a vintage modern alice in wonderland tea party

picture three . all the copic markers in the world, offered to us for our last assignment ever .

picture four . our last assignment . music inspiration for story boards . indus - lotas mirage

picture five . berini going to hosiptal

picture six . dexter, my lunch buddy at fedisa

picture seven . celebrity wedding . kate moss and john depp

picture eight . casper in my bath . so rude

picture nine . miss k, the p.a at fedisa, jumping rope with lydia's 25 m long plait for her final garment in her collection . we spent almost an hour braiding fifteen pieces of 25 m string

picture ten . fedisa wall of fame . third year students cook book works

graduate collection done . only have my couture wedding dress left to create . three weeks of hard, slave type work and then comes the crit seesions and alterations, prepping for the runway show . all very exciting!

lets be honest here, quick. don't ask to see the collection pictures yet please. come to the show and be blown away . until then now more images will be seen on this blog .

 

{ peace makers and lovers }

Project Ballgown comes to an end

After weeks of hard work, and hundreds of hours . . . I finally finished my ball gown of

P R O J E C T     B A L L G O W N

in time to wear it to the Fedisa Graduate Collection Show. I felt like an award winner going down a red carpet . . . It was amazing to have the place to wear such a dress and even better that I had made it my self.

 This is me, here with my lovely lady, Liz at the Grand Market Hall.

here my dress comes down the runway :)

And there is the back . . . and you know how the rest went because I then noticed all the issues . . . And was highly depressed after this point. Thought the rest of the show was long, very long, it was interesting and gave be a lot of inspiration for my collection next year :)

peace and love

♥

runway show just in

T R I B U T E   T O   M c Q U E E N

the professional photographs from

t h e   f e d i s a   g r a d u a t e   c o l l e c t i o n   f a s h i o n   s h o w 

which was last week, where put up on facebook yesterday and I was so excited . . .

until I saw my picture . . .

here are the problems, right.

1) those aren't my shoes - mine were platform grated sling backs, with blue ribbons and safety pins.

2) I have hand made fabric, studded ankle straps that cover the foot in chains?

3)the chaining on the front is COMPLETELY wrong!

my best aspect of this is - I left a fully diagrammed sheet of instructions on the front of the bag.

Can someone be so stupid? Or not care THAT much?

completely ruined everything about my OUTFIT and ruined my night, though I only noticed the chaining on the front on the stage. BUT NOW I'M FURIOUS!

so upset.

the only good thing about this is I know who the dresser that screwed up is :)

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holidays, finally.

a  w e l c o m e   e n d   t o   t h e   y e a r

Tonight signified the end of my second year as a fedisa BA:Fashion Design student.

We had our graduate collection show tonight, held at the Grand Market Hall in Grand West Casino, Goodwood.

Amazing venue, beautiful show, some awesome clothing - post later on ;)

hehe . . . see P R O J E C T B A L L G O W N

Sheri-Lee Greenway, also known as safashiongirl, your collection was soooo lovely.

Just saying ;)

sooo . . . my main objective to get out of this late night post is

comparing to my last amazing followers post

1) to say a little welcome to the new followers :)

went from 15 to

28 official followers

2) let you know I have hit 3000 views of my page, from 1882 :D

and

3) would like to say hiiiii to all the new countries . . .

Poland

The Philippines

Tunisia

Hong Kong

Mexico

Argentina

Denmark

Saudi Arabia

Isle of Man

Austria

Romania

Sweden

Turkey

Ireland

Chile

Brazil

Spain

Israel

Hungary

Switzerland
Egypt

21 new countries - which leaves me with a readership of 39  international countries  different places,

*it's late and that made me laugh :)

For some reason, I have had this massive influx of readings from the United States . . .

I have had 681 views on my E X T R E M E C O R S E T R Y post . . .

maybe it's all the rage over there? Let me know :)

all of this improvement in t w o   w e e k s :)

ahh, so happy :)

Would also love to say well done to the other Richard Bloom/Craig Port Finalists . . . Yes, Robyn Le Sueur, Robyn-Lee Johnson, Bianca Goosen, Daniel Montovani, Nicole Furter and myself were the six finalists out of the 40 in our class, teehee . . .

Well done to Robyn Le Sueur for winning the bursary/study fund :)

Such a perfect week for you, I'm so proud of you my darling friend.

and now, it's time to get some well deserved sleep and rest . . . 10 weeks of this, coming up.

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