2nd novemeber

these are some images from ym look book for the miu miu prject..... i like what i did but i think for my third year look book there are alterations i now know i need to make

enterprise lecture at nine but the lecturer Bridget said we could go anytime so i decided to make the most of my time before the brief and go on Thursday morning. i stayed in all Monday and Tuesday preparing for the final hand in on Wednesday at nine and then the presentation on Wednesday afternoon. it infuriated me that some of the people in our class had been given extensions with the lame excuses such as i have had a cold. we all had cold, some of us even had flu and it was unfair that we were not all given an extension.
this is one of the pages from my look book..... this is the skirt i made in flat.
i was reasonably happy with the work i produced over the last month, and i found that i had completed a lot that i thought i wouldn't be able too. i was not happy with the presentation, i really do not enjoy public speaking, i do not mind performing in pantomimes or any of that stuff, but as soon as we had to stand up and perform the presentation, i needed to read off my Que cards which i hadn't needed before and this ruined most of my section of the presentation.

on the Tuesday before we had the presentation, we had critical studies. it was unsurprising that most the of the people on the course did not turn up. i on the other hand went, i collected my brief from tom palin my new lecturer and i rather enjoyed the lecture. it was only an hour, and I'm looking forward to my next lecture.

after i have done all this..... in the last month i feel shattered. i really do not want to be working again like this- this is one of my initial resaerch pages that i did over the summer

26th october reading week...elective millinery

last year i really enjoyed my millinery elective and having already had the brief we knew what we were doing. during the first 20 Min's of the session even though i had already planned to do the plundering the past section of the brief i decided to switch to super sculptures i as i found this more interesting once i had begun researching it.

my research immediately lead me to Stephen Jones, christian Dior and some of the most fascinating buildings ever made such as the new creations in Dubai, and the Eiffel tower. i decided after looking at some very weird German building to create my hat/fascinator out of sinamay. it would be a series of cubes held together somehow on sinamay base. these be built up and would have something inside them to show movement when the wearer moved there head or walked.

during the entire elective which had to be handed on November the 12Th i felt permanently distracted by the short time we had left on the application of design brief.

due to the shirt time we have to complete this brief, im quite impressed by what i managed to get done. howevere i will still need to do some more things to my hat...and my research before i hand it in.

19th october application of design

Monday no enterprise lecture as its every other week.

on Tuesday i had a tutorial with gem ma about my work experience and what i would need to do, i left my CV at home.....which basically made the meeting pointless...my fault entirely.

2 weeks until hand in. this week we were talking about look books, illustrations and presentation techniques.

i was staying at college 9-9 almost every day to try and get this skirt made. the piping which was a design feature for our collection pulled the stretch fabric as i was putting it in, this made my garment out on one side by about an inch. an inch is an awful lot to compensate for and it messed with the vents at the bottom of the skirt which i had pain stakingly put in and the waistband. i had to ask Hugo to help me correct this as i could not see how i could possibly get round it. but we managed and by Thursday evening out of college time i was able to see how my work and the collection would all fit together.

the day sessions were all about planning our collection, what we say during our presentation and creating our look books. my group once again without Jess pike had to decided what we would include in our presentation and we all decided it would be interesting to have a video in our presentation. the video would taken whilst shooting our collection on Friday as this was the only time the room was available. using our college connections we were able to source a photographer and lighting assistant by the name of Dom and jay. the photo shoot and video went really ell and we were all happy with the way it turned out.

this is a link to the video that we made........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBbvrTVfMhI

we were also glad to get this out of the way as next week we had to do our electives that had been placed right in the middle of one of the most stressful and time consuming projects of the year. nice one.

12th october

Monday our enterprise lecture....9am..... not very happy people kept turning up half way through and we started half an hour late because none had been given the right times!
anyway. the enterprise lecture was all about pest

• politics


• economics


• society


• technology

and how this all had to be taken very seriously when thinking about where, when and how your setting your business up!

on the whole this was very helpfull as we have our 'creating our business' thing to think about and all this will be helpfull.

for application of design this week we needed to make our garment, this was difficult. i had my flats and i knew what i was going to be making....my skirt.

the difficult part was making the pattern, as i wanted to create a skirt with curved seams i had to take this into consideration when pattern cutting i also had to think about where i would put the zip.....preferably out of sight for this market level and how it would all fit together to hide seams and piping. i made the pattern on Wednesday and i had made the toil bu Thursday afternoon but by trying to hide a side seam i had to completely change part of the pattern and i also had to take into consideration vents. this would allow the wearer to walk in the skirt because it was fitted down the the knees. the fabric i chose was also quite hard to work in and getting the pattern pieces cut right was very difficult. by Friday afternoon when we were supposed to have had our entire garment finished i had some new pattern pieces, after the first skirt bodged. my plan was to stay late all next week in my own time and finish it.

5th october application of design.

beginning the 5Th of October we needed to have some design sheets started based on our group research. this was very difficult as we had only just began our group research and i don't think anyone thought 4 pages would be enough to base an entire collection on. i really enjoy enjoy the design process and i needed to get back into the style of drawing alot of designs. i do enjoy the design process when i exhaust the possibilities by drawing them out. as a group before we began designing we had to decide what each of us wee going to do. as in for our collection someone would need to do day wear and someone would need to do evening wear. as a team we decided that,

• adele would complete the tailoring aspect of the collection



• vicky wallace would do casual day wear



• claire would do evening wear



• zaianab would do young and edgy



• and we were unaware as to what jess would do as she was not in.

straight away we decided what we would all be making as we needed to have a collection of 6 garments to create a group line-up. claire dress, zaianab long top, jess jacket, adele trousers, myself a skirt and vicky a jumper/coat.

as a group we were to create flat drawings for our collection and we needed them for next week as we were beginning to make the garments we had not even finished designing yet.

on Thursday we had a group meeting with Angie to discuss what we would be making, we were also talking about fabric and colour choice as this is very important to our collection. after our group meeting, we went to Dewsbury and the market and other fabric stores to see if we could find the fabrics that were missing from our range. we managed to find some very exciting fabrics. with our chosen fabrics picked we were able to finalise what we would be making with angie the next day and our design details that would be suitable. as a team we decided to have satin piping as a design feature.

this work was really beginning to get on top of me already. although i felt i had stayed up to date and we were not as behind as other groups, it was still asking alot that by next Friday we would have our garments made. on the Friday we had a talk about look books, this confused everyone slightly i think. we all know we have a lot to do, so i think it may just be a case of getting on with it, and making the most of college time

these area few design sheets i had done....

beginning our project 28th september

application of design brief regarding our summer work was given on the 28Th of September. from our research, we began getting into our groups and we were told what we have to do. the brief looked quite complicated but i hoped it would make more sense as the week went on. my group was Claire Greendale, zainab, Adele, Vicky wallace and Jess pike. Jess was not there on the first day so we informed her we had been put into our groups and we began on the work, putting together an A2 mood board so we could create four more individual research based on our summer work as a group. to the left hand side of the page is one of the research pages i did based on our group mood board. we decided to look at structured shapes, strong, bold colours, bright flowers and natural shapes. this combined made an interesting mood board and my research after this was more interesting.

from his personal research that was to be completed during the week we were then to begin designing for our group. we needed to design a designer diffusion brand. we needed a name. branding and mission statement to begin designing so we all had an established idea of what to design as a group as we had to make a coherent line that had combining features alongside our own personal line-ups.

as a group we decided to create 'impossible to define' as a designer difussion ine for miu miu we were using a slogan already linked with the brand. all this had been done in one week along side team talks, planning, preparation, and our own personal research. it was beginning to look like this brief would be hell.

we also had our first Enterprise lecture this week, i understand that enterprise is very important to designers and other creatives, and i think the lessons will be really helpful when thinking about business. our first lecture was quite interesting and it gave us a basic insight into what we need to know when thinking about setting up our own business's.

summer work 09

summer work? well we have been given our summer work for the next project and i know from last year that i need to do it before go back otherwise i will be behind before we start.

• we have to do 4 research pages


• a mood board based on the information we were given


• start a fabric file


• and produce brand research on a designer diffusion level

over the summer i have complete the brand research, i chose to look into see by Chloe, roksanda ilincic's new range for whistles and bcbg, i also looked at Stella Mc Cartney so i could compare the difference. along side my brand research was the designer research on miu miu, i really enjoyed looking into miu miu as its a brand i like for its playful clothing!

the fabric research file was quite difficult to compile and i had to wait until i had time to travel to fabric shops so i could get a wide range of fabrics. i don't know very much about the fabrics so I'm guessing i will have to look into it more.

i don't think the research i completed was as good as the research i was doing all of last year, certain aspects of my work lacked creativity. this is one of my summer research pages

i was more focused on the research aspect of our summer work.