This one started life as a peachy coloured dress from asos, pretty but Rather ill fitting. It had a waistband which seemed to be made to fit a size 4 rather than a 10 and strange gathering going on which made you look like you had boobs on your back!?! Odd! Anyway, i decided to sacrifice this one in the name of art. Firstly, it was tooo long so i hacked of the 'pretty' edging and cut into the god awful waist thing. next i cover it in white paint, i firstly attempted to use bleach... a lot of it and whereas the blasted dress remained the untouched the college chairs will never quite looked the same... My bad!
Using a bucket and other random shit from around the studio i arranged the dress so that it would dry with a crumpled effect that i could still get into. Next i attacked the 'pretty' neckline and shoulders with black paint, some black netting and more black paint on the scalloped edging (i don't throw things away easily) stitched it all together and then here we have dress no.4! :)
Monday, 3 May 2010
Monday, 26 April 2010
Foo Fashion show
This saturday my friends and i went to the foo fashion show! it started at 8pm and we decided it would be a good idea to have a drink or two before we set off. finally we left and stumbled our way to Motion nightclub - the venue for this evening. This is new teritory for us and upon arrival we felt sort of out of place and way to drunk in comparrison to everyonbe else so we swiftly hid ourselves in a corner until the show started.
The show was amazing! Forgetting the rather awkward start, the clothes were cool, models cool, perforemers cool. The whole thing ooozed coolness!
The show was amazing! Forgetting the rather awkward start, the clothes were cool, models cool, perforemers cool. The whole thing ooozed coolness!
I particularly like the Fud hoods (apologise if spelt wrong) below is a collaborative hood designed by my new friend Ashley Marc Hovelle - AMH. PLease also ignore the stupid face! I am simply very pleased to be wearing this hood... and i'm no model.
These hoods were in most of the collection and i would definately recomend. This particular hood reads 'I'm bad' in glowing neon ink, needless to say this is going to be my next pruchase.
Other designers at the show included Sew that jazz, puckoo couture, Motel, Adidas and an adidas clad breakdance group, dutty, a burlesque dancer, nipple tassles, a brilliant whistle playing beat boxer, hula hoop, fire, acrobatics and a magician.
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
This old thing
Firstly, please ignore that pouty/grumpy look. This is another one of the dresses from my final collection. This one first started as a 1950s style twinset comprising of a calf length dress and cardigan. Which i rejigged to make a a bodice. I am trying to locate a picture of the original garment which i will hopefully post up here soon.
Here is the finished garment.
Here is the finished garment.
I don't particularly like the silver skirt thing that i knocked up in about 5 mins... It looked better in my head. However, the bodice underneath is actually quite cool. The cardigan of the twinset was beautifully pleated and i inevitably decided to cut it up into shreds, or trendils as i like to call them and arranged it across the bodice to follow the body contours. I also decided to leave a trailing, floaty piece at the side (I do have a passion for floaty trendils!) Unfortunately the majority of all of this detailing is hidden by the grotesque silver thing! grrr! Never mind, more to come...
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