Draping

Soo over the summer we got set a projct to research and create a mood board on draping, i found it really interesting because i have never done any form of draping before and it got me back into uni mode before actually coming back to uni. These are the pictures i found that stood out to me the most.

Vintage at Goodwood Festival

So over the summer i was lucky enough to go the the first Vintage at Goodwood festival. Vintage and second hand shopping has been around for years and has become more and more popular and 'fahionable' as the years have gone on. Vintage at Goodwood is a truly unique annual event which celebrates 5 decades of British Cool. It brings together and celebrates the music, fashion, film, art, dance and design from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, that has made Britain the world’s creative and cultural hot bed. Vintage explores this rich cultural history and the extraordinary influence that it has had on the modern world.
Below are some of my own photos and a couple of videos to show you exactly what went on.

Back to uni, back to reality.

After having roughly four months off uni and working full time in a call centre, i can say its nice to be back. I am happy with my overall 2:2 mark for my first year, but looking back over my work i cant say im pleased with the final outcomes of my projects. This year im going to aim to keep on track with my work, turn up to lessons on time and generaly just make a lot more effort. Now i know that i want to go more into the construction side of fashionm, and i also feel like im more comfortable in Bournemouth and at uni, its going to be a much better year.

Easter is over and im sad because i had too much fun and now back to reality. The first week i went skiing with my family and went and saw my sister, who is doing a season, for the first time in months which made my year!! The second week i ate way too much chocolate and saw as many friends as i could. I had our first day back today. I was reeally tired and didnt feel so great but even though it may not have seemed like it i really enjoyed the lesson. we discussed about different fabrics which i dont really no a lot about and its an area i need to be stronger in so i found it helped a lot. I wasnt so keen on the exercise we did were we had to ask random people about the clothes they were wearing because many people weren't around the the canteen was shut, but other than that it was fun.

Easter Easter Lets go hoooome. So ive handed all my work in and im very ready to go home. Over easter ill be going to by my fabric for my final garment and i no the fabric that i want so lets hope they have it.

9.30 tomorrow is my hand in for buying and Merchandising so i decided to hand it in today just so i dont miss it. Writing the essay ended up being a lot easier than i though, i found it difficult at times to write but the fact that we got given our assignment quite early it gave me plenty of time to be able to write it to the standard i want it. i think the fact that i have worked in retail for about three years also helped me with writing the assignment. So yeah overall i was pretty please with my final copy and hopefully John will be too.

Today was my toile review which i was actually really nervous about. i was really pleased with my toile but was worried about the teachers comments just incase they wanted me to change it completely. My feedback was really positive and gave me the confidence boost i think i needed. i originally took one fabric sample into the review but karen remembered from my design review all the other samples i had. The one i took in with me was a black and white polka dot fabric which i thought would be good for my 50's theme, they preferred the other fabric samples i had which i loved because the colours are more vibrant and would make the dress more with todays trends but with a 50's style which i wanted to achieve.