Finally! gonna make my London post June 2017 Part 2: Graduate Fashion week - My first catwalk experience

I only went to one of the catwalks, but wow I was totally blown away with it.

I teared up a few times it was such an amazing experience!

I can't wait to see more!

I really like the accent of color and the flow of the garments, I love the off the shoulder garment in the second photo and the layers and bulk of it.  Also the low cut dress next to the shoulder less garment.

I think this was my favorite of all of them, great flow, great accents of colors and I loved the music

that was playing during the catwalk: (here)

Lauren's work was nice, it was really great to see Tartan garments.

I really liked the Fluffy ness of the garments of Eleanor's work

Especially the blue sleeves!

Raabia Arif's work was lovely, great shapes and styles and I really like how the garments are all the one color.  The giant collar on the jacket and the long sleeves.

Abisola's clothes are super funky!

Finally! gonna make my London post June 2017 Part 1: Graduate Fashion Week (Graduates work)

London it's self is a lot to take it, very mind blowing i'd been once before briefly for a day
but this time we were here for 3 days!

3 days wasn't enough to take even the small amount we took in.

The big parts of it were going to the V&A Gallery primarily for Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion
(Tickets and information available here)
And going to the Graduate Fashion Week
(which I think next time it's on i'm going to go for the few days it's on as one day didn't feel like enough time to speak to everyone, see the catwalks and eat and rest)

Some of the fashion pieces from the Graduate Fashion week and information on some of the designers and universities:

I really love the sleeve detail, how it can be detached, it made me think about this could be used as a style detail or for more practical reasons.  This piece really stood out to be because i'm pretty sure it was the only one i saw like this at the fashion week.

(I've tried my best to credit people where I can apologies for this works I haven't)

This caught my eye, just wow, imagine just doing your day to day stuff dressed up to the 9's like this.

I love the shape and form of the jacket.

Chatted with Connor McBurney about his designs

Beside his designs were some sci fi looking garments by Samatha Wootton

I really love this style of trouser, and also the illustration work

Edinburgh universities work was fantastic!

First time making a hood for a jacket (Marluxia's Organisation 13 Jacket)

Making a hood

I was excited and also nervous about making this.

I've never made a hood before for a jacket, and I couldn't find my pattern reference book I got in my NC year for a guide. 

Below is the original pattern piece,  after making the paper copy

I used this reference from Pinterest as a rough guide after making an attempt myself, though it ended up looking more like a space helmet/traditional dutch hat.

After looking at this I noticed that it didn't need to curve in at the top, and came up with this and made a mock up,

after the mock up I noticed It was better for the design to have a godet in the middle to round of the hood.  (5cm godet)

Here is a very rough idea of the hood design

(I tried to work the drawing tablet and gave up for the mouse so do excuse the drawing)

notches: I notched to match where the half way point is on the hood 

(17.78 cm to separate the hood and the heads extended shape)

in hindsight: I would have notches the godet part of the hood a few times to balance out the hood.

Also in hindsight: more images for blogging.

2nd last day of class.

Design and make project work

I felt today was super productive, 

(1) started and finished my dress with some tweaks to the patterns and finished my jacket 

Tweaks on dress:

1. I was originally going to have the zip on the side, even without sleeves this would be really impractical to get into, but with sleeves it's pretty much near to impossible.
2. So because of this I move the zip to the back of the garment, and because of this I had to make a new neck facing hold my old one in half draw another pattern and add a 1 cm seam to the cut edge to allow room for the zip.  The back patterns both skirt and top half had to have a 1 cm attached also.
3. I also learned while making my mock up that the front neck facing and front neck, will need fused in order to make sure it sits right and also to make sure it doesn't stretch this could also be attached with plastic boning as well as with fusing.  Both would also work.           
4. The sleeves didn't turn out how I imagined they would either, so for the actual garment i'm going to make them shorter and flare more.

 

picture above of me sewing the one piece sleeve.

Lined denim jacket:

I'm really happy with the outcome of the jacket, I love the flare in it, I think when I make it again, I am going to make fusing higher up on the bottom part cause I love the structure of it, but i'd love to make it even more dramatic!

I think i'd also add 2 or more buttons under the one I have currently on it.

I want to get out of the habit of using only one button on my jackets.

The last leg of my first year of college.

I've just finished my Graded unit last week

notes are all done now (more or less)

I found it was good as long as I kept taking notes, and photograhs of the progress

here is some below:

this is the unlined jacket I done before it was all put together I overlocked the garment but I think i'm going to make another jacket but binding the edges instead for a better finish

I really like how it looks inside out (I decided to go with copying part of the front pattern for my faces, and I was a bit unsure how it was going to sit at first but i really like it would work I think if bindinded both ways, I think I could make a really funky jacket with this.

Last but not least, the final garment, I used an blind stitcher to finish the sleeves and hem and I found this alot neater than blind stitching by hand  

(below is the blind stitching and the finished jacket)