McTribute comes to an end

7 boards of artwork

2 outfits, 4 garments in total

Accessories to go with it.

3 weeks from start to finish.

That’s 15 days open to do the work at college.

That’s 97 and a half hours.

I finished on Thursday, with 45 minutes to spare.

Today was the end. We had to present our garments, including shoes and accessories to a panel of judges who decided whether or not the garment would showcase in the Graduation Collection Runway show in November.

Which is all well and fine . . .

Until you throw in the fact that there are 38 of us in our year, each with 2 outfits

And only 32 spaces open.

After much organisation and frustration with Matric Exams so incontinently placed, Melanie Burghart, one of the my many add on family members, agreed to be pricked and prodded as my model. Lovely Traditional Pom look about her, all pale and stuff :) She had her first South African Metrorail experience, and a nice little walk around My end of Cape Town. Was a warm, Spring day, luckily :) We arrived at college a little bit early, giving me just enough time to realise how stressed I was at that moment. The class was pretty full already so kind of just wondered around for a bit and then started with the make-up. Decided on painting on eye lashed with black liquid eye liner on the lids, with just a flicker of glitter, my personal touch ;)

Mel wearing my Corset and Jeans. The corset has distressed floral cut outs, adjustable, presstudded clasps and  a safety pin to keep it all in. The ribbon strap is attached by safety pins.

The jeans have the same distressed floral cut outs and turned up cuffs, cropped to the ankles

Roughed up and grated, the black stilettos, ankle straps, presstudded on and ribbon bows at shoes sling-back strap. I loved my shoes :)

 This is my 28 panel dress, with fitted Cropped jacket. It has the distressed floral cut outs along the raw edged hem. The chain is loosely roped around jeans buttons, although that was not the original plan, I think it came out kinda well.

 The chain on at the waist is draped over buttons. The roped shoulder details took hours, they are hand sewn loops of rope, then prick stitched onto the actual jacket yoke.

Much to my surprise, my dress and cropped jacket combo got into the Showcase :) Over joyed to be honest.

Long story short everything went really well, and I was so impressed with most of the outfits I saw. Really creatively presented. Some of the models looked as though the designer had designed the clothes specifically for them. I mean, Liz Stone even got the skin tone correct :)

Liz Stone with her amazing shoulders! Mosaic stilettos. Beautiful. I really enjoyed these outfits. Both of these garments got into the show.

Kate Stanton with her mens wear model. Made the cut :)

Christie Sutherland made a jumpsuit and a dress with hot pants. I really really loved her designs, simple and clean cut. The bow hair accessories were so fitting too. Very sweet C :)

Raya Rossi with her girls. Hand painted writing and spray painted lace. Fold over waistband flyless jeans. Cropped cuffed pants. Straw hats. Leather shoulder point. The dress made it into the show line up. It was all lovely, so perfectly Rayaesque. 

So far I have only found out a few of the garments that are in, but congratulations to everyone of my fedisa people) :) It was a really interesting 3 weeks

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McQProject - Week One

P R O J E C T M c Q U E E N O B S E S S I O N

Hectic week.  Am sooo behind from where I wanted to be, although, only 4 hours behind my 'new deadline'. Hopefully will get done by Wednesday, giving me Thursday to fix things and make sure everything is right.

just patterns and stuff on my dress on my desk

doing my flower brooch, with tea :)

inside of my cropped jacket, lined with the Union Jack flag

Back Yoke Sausage, all rolled up. Took forever.

Long day, rushed list of last minute things

Top Stitching on my 28 panelled dress

28 panelled dress, flared out, before top stitching

the cut out in the jeans

Making the roped shoulder detail accessories

This past week, I finished my dress and 3/4's of my cropped jacket. All that is left is a pair of jeans and a corset, but if I run out of time, I'm just ganna have to make a cropped tank shirt, which should be fine too.

McQueen week two to come

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Moodboards of the up coming trends, Summer 2011

Style lab is going well, although battling with time - really! Only having 7 hours a day is insane. How can we do everything, with 'first class finishings' in such a rush. I really laughed at the simple designs of some people, but clearly, I should hav esimplified my garments. Four funnly fitted, highly detail pieces in 8 days, including patterns, is ridiculous and I don't known what I was thinking. So far, I have basically finished my 28 panelled dress :)


I am so excited about the up and coming trend forcasts . . .

These are the moodboards for the upcoming fashions of Summer/Spring 2011, although for South Africa, more than likely Winter 2011 . . .

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I will create my boards, sketches, scrapping, collages and ideas of the upcoming trends soon :) Just doing my research so long.

have a look at some of my friends blogs:

 http://www.rayafiamma.blogspot.com/

http://lisaharrisonsarah.tumblr.com/

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"Tribute to McQueen" Style lab - Day One

Day One of our Style Lab exam type thing. 

Our theme this year is 

T R I B U T E   T O   M c Q U E E N

A tribute to the man,to the country (the United Kingdom), to the art, to the design, to the love.

Although he is known for his outrageous designs and such,  he didn't seem to do much denim in his career? So how can we be doing a "tributary" for him if he didn't use the fabric what we have been assigned to use? Maybe that's the whole point of the assignment? To think along the same lines,while still being ourselves as designers? But we can draw huge amounts of inspiration from the Man :) And when in doubt, there is always google :)

amazing McQueen denim jacket. Good colouring, good fit, and like the shoulder drop detail :)

Union Jacket :) Awesome hip/side-seam detail. Just good quality avant guarde vibes :) 

 Something a little more commercial, but I like the shoulders and the re-fabrication used :)

lovely dress :)

Basically, it's a denim exam, that ends with the best garments going on our runway at the end of the year fedisa Showcase runway show. Sounds easy hey? Until you hear that there are about 40 students,each doing two full outfits - that's, what about 80ish sets? Yeah, there are only 28 spaces for women's wear and 4 for men's. AND worst of all, we only have two and a half weeks from briefing to hand in. That's storyboards, all art aspects etc, patterns, re-fabrication, sewing and finishing the outfit with accessories, shoes, jewelry and make-up. So all in all, it's a rough competition.

How incredible are these shoes?! The Lobster Shoe, also called the Hoof Boot, only released after McQueen's death in February of this year. I am sooo obsessed with these shoes, but I cannot simply copy them for my outfit so I have to work a way to copy without copying :(  

They can be seem on Lady Gaga in her music video of Bad Romance.

Everybody in class is being really secretive about there ideas, as there is only so much you can do with denim in such a short space of time. But so far, I think I have a fairly good idea of what I'm ganna do :) I have been drawing in my croque book all day and have come up with some fair alright designs, just nothing is jumping out at me yet.

Let's keep on keeping on, I guess :) Back to the Big Black Book :)