Stay True to your Culture

As designers, we have our own cultures, but to get amazing work and reports about you, you have to look into other cultures!


I think looking at other cultures is interesting and it makes you think about the way that you live, and question, why do they live like that or why do we live like that.
The image is right, culture is everything, its every form of tin you have in your cupboard and every shoe all over the world. Its onr particular thing, but also its many different things. The image says that if you put two things together you get culture, I supose that could mean there are many new cultures to come!

Pattern Cutting

Finished Toile, Half scale size 12. Front

The back view of my Toile. I really enjoyed making this and renewing the skills I know.

Basic Jersey T-shirt, half scale size 12. I made this in my last lesson of the semester. I made it using a 4 threa over locker, a bider and a cover stitch. I had never used a binder before, I learnt how to thread it up.

My Illustration of my technical bodice, at the top of the blog.

Technical sheets for the bodice; on the left is the production sketch (a black and white drawing of the garment on a template/figure) and on the right is the working drawing(a black and white line drawing of the garment "flat").

Zip; I struggled a lot at college sewing zips into garments or sampleing, so for me to get this pretty much perfect, well, I was over the moon!

The French seam; used mainly for chiffon materials, because they are so hard to overlock with the movement of the fabric!

The Run and Fell Seam; used on jeans, I think this is my favourite seam, it looks neater and is a little detailed.

Open Seams; the basic everyday seam, thats on pretty much everything.

voguesucks.com

I recently found out that there is a website called voguesucks.com... I decided to look into this, and what it comes up with ties into my lectures this week. Its actually the website for PETA, the organisation fighting to get rights for animals so that they aren't killed for fur in inhumane condtions!

Killing animals for there fur is a big thing, and its a huge industry in China. China is the biggest fur industry in the world followed by many other places in the middle east. China is the biggest offender because there are no laws there to stop the inhumane slaughters.
There are many furs that people wear that we don't think about really, like; Leather, exotic skins (snake, crocodile), wool, beavers, chinchillers, dogs, cats, foxes, minx, seals and birds.


In lecture this week we had the big debate about weather fur is good or not. We were given statements and had to research the statement and back it up, our groups was "We Don't Need Fur Animals Do"

800 animals are rammed onto one truck to the fur farms, then thrown 10ft from the top off the truck to the ground, shattering there leg. Some of the animals have collars around there necks from when theyve been stolen from homes.

They are packed into small cages of 52 square cm. They can't do anything natural to tthem, they are forced to live in there own excrement. The animals go insane from the cages, the frustrasion leads them to self mutilate, pacing round in circles and cannibalisation.

Cages are positioned in either dark sheads where the ammonia of the animals accumulate, their urine and feeces burning their eyes and making it hard for them to breathe. Or the cages will be lined up outside in the freezing winters, in the lashing rain, or the burning sun with no protection.
The mother animals have no where to hide whilst giving birth, and from being crazy they offen kill and eat there litter after.

Killing is so inhumane, there are many methods of killing so that the fur isn't damaged. sometimes even rods are put into the animals' anus and mouth and electricuted until cardiac arrest. Then when the furs are ripped from thier bodies, their half alive bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of others; with the horrible sound of helpless gasps.

my new...."not an obsession"!

Not the cheapest of things to get into, but so interesting and fun! I love charity shopping and finding some interesting and vintage clothes, books and other bits and bobs as you might think. But have you ever thought about going in for a camra?! I think that camras could be beautiful as a print on a really vintage, classic shape skirt and in a menswear collection too. Its not just an obsession now, I'm inspired by it!





Possibly the oldest camra I have ever, will ever see!
 and It's from Conway, my favourtie place in the world!







A reteo Kodak Instamatic Camra, I should have
 bought it just for an ornament!







I bought this one because I just love it and
I have a slightly strange thing for Polariods.







I just wanted the camra bag, but my friend insisted it
was wierd to buy the bag and not the camra too...
Its not is it?!











This was about a fifth of the camras the charity
 shop, Banardos had, I was so amazed!

P-O-R-T-F-O-L-I-O

Its probably the most important thing you will ever show people. And it will be your favourite and best work, I know I'm so proud of mine and its only just on the begining of its journey. You have to be confident in your work, because thats what is getting you the job.

As a Fashion Student, my portfolio should be A3, and depending what your area of speciality is in should be shown in your portfoilio. Everyones is different, no ones will be the same, due to our own particular styles and way we work.

Electricising Feathers

As part of our first Semester, we have 3 lesson, like a mini crash course, learning differnt techniques. One of these is CAD we were shown basics of Photoshop and Illustrator and using them together in a project. We created images, interesting and contraversial to our own unique styles and research.

Illustrator; I played with the morph tool, the liqifier tool(Photoshop) and paintbrushes to see what kind of images I could create.

Photoshop; Anthapmorthism, I made the soft image contrast with the sharpness of an eagal.

Photoshop; I used the clone tool to make a portrait image of the owl

Photoshop and Illustrator; Silhouette of an Owl with"Owl" text 

Photoshop and Illustrator: I created my own pattern for the bin on Illustator and put the image together on photoshop.