the collection is mostly blue because he's colour blind and blue is one of the few colours he can see

hello, hello, hello, hi.

i've been waiting on official photos from the festival of fashn to drop into my hot little hands soon (via school ?, not sure) so i can post them here..if theyre ok.
but i really dont think that thats going to be happening any time soonskies.

so a while ago i was going to post some of my quick sketches/fashn illustrations here, but didnt want to until after the festival - assuming that i'd finish making them all before that night. no.
i ended up finishing some pieces for the red carpet section and another 2 for resort - all half-finished/half-arsed attempts which i didn't even like in the end which bothers me, just cos i ran out of time.
but oh well. i also lost a whole heap of study time bc of the hours i spent on fashn stuff, which is equally annoying..i dont think i did nearly as well in the last set of exams as i could have. or assignments. and theyre all so goddamn important right now.

but back to belated fashnfest review; i think my resort duo were in the ~wrong section, and i know this def mirrored the judges' opinions because it seemed that they considered resortwear to be strictly lycra/togs..
that did annoy me a tiny bit, but was expected. its funny though, bc resort collections at fashn weeks around the world (paris, ny, etc) have the occasional swimwear incorporated into the collection, but always include dresses/shorts etc and the whole summer 'look'. hm.
i was luckie enough to score a 'special mention' for my 'edwardian' get-ups though, which is kind of cool.
so here are some of my drawings from january '09 up until about june/july..when i got lazy:
originally i planned on doing a slouchy/drapey set of tops. i wanted them to be made of loose fabrics so they sat loosely but maybe with shoulder pads underneath for even more of an androgynous/boxy shape. just in muted colours or greys and blacks or something. its hard to explain the image in my head and this picture's actually quite terrible..one of my first sketches so its rough and horrible. and i guess fairly subconsciously yohji-inspired, accidentally, with the mesh incorporated and what have you.



this is image is also a little hard to decipher due to the dodgie picture quality, but i had wanted to do a set of three jackets, at the start of the year, to go with three dresses - all to go in as one entry in the after 5/red-carpet section. at that stage, that balmain collection hadn't been soo publicised, so the boxie zipped/studded/embellished jackets weren't at that stage so overdone and difficult to stomach. i'm now so far from enjoying the collection bc im so sick of seeing it done and re-done and in spreads in most magazines for months afterward.

the original plan for the dresses:


here is a version of the dresses that was closer to those that i ended up sewing. the colours at least..you can ignore the embarrassing descriptions beside each figure haha..that was just for the benefit of translation when i entered it into the illustration comp thingo..
and also for those who are unaware, i have a massive Sunday bun hair fetish. so thus the amy-winehouse-beehive ish buns times trois..

originally for the resort section i wanted to include a set of (again) slouchy draw-string dresses. i wanted three and for them to be made of similar fabrics/colours but to each differ slightly - ie. different sleeves or asymmetrical or drawstring used in different sections of each dress.
i struggled to find patterns that fitted the exact idea/s, obvz, but mum has a few big boxes of old patterns so i managed to mix and match to find patterns for the tops and bottoms of each.
i wanted to incorporate originally a sort of neon transparent fabric into each..but couldnt find anything like that in our one/two fabric store/s, of course. so i stuck with a steady range of whites and beiges with some black string. this idea let me use doilies which i had wanted to include in/make a dress out of for yonks..
ALTHOUGH doilies/doilie-esque fabric proved too expensive, so i just used a whole heap of different types of lace that i bought/had lying round from past mini-projects, curtain-making and art stuff for school.


this was a different unfinished tangent alltogether, but sort of had a similar idea to the transparent neon action that i was hoping for in the resort idea above.


i suppose this one was more of a wearable art piece, but i still wanted to enter it into the evening-wear section..in a mishmash-of-pretty-fabrics-and-fairly-muted-colours-but/so-still-wearable-with-confidence-rodarte sort of way..
i guess if i had included the antler/twiggie and/or bird-wing/feathered alexander mcqueen ish headpiece it would have tipped it over into more of a not-so ready-to-wear category..but as if i even started/finished it at all in the end D:
i guess i was still in a bit of a white/fluffie mood after my wearable art piece for school and so was still feeling the beige/gold/shades of ivory and white soft fabrics. i wanted to use a heap of different types of wool in those colours as well as transparent and floatie fabrics as weeell as some rougher more textured ones..but all in a feminine fairie sort of fashion. i guess. i dont know..the image in my head was ~relatively awesome haha..i can assure you.


i guess just a shorter, slightly modified equivalent of the one above..
god, none of these are even slightly identifiable.


here's a slightly similar set of three that i had quickly jotted down (i think there's something about me and threes ?) one afternoon in about 20 minutes.

this was going to be entered into streetwear i spose - was more for night-time escapades but there was no section in between street/day-wear and full-out evening gowns.. i wanted the skirt on the left to be mostly luella-like gold and black non-symmetrically-aligned ruffles..maybe made out of taffetta or something a little structured and firm so they would be kind of excessive and hold their shape easily. the top was just going to be a black leotard i think..~ something fitted and non-descript so that it wouldnt draw attention away from the bottom half.
the second dress was going to have a big silver/gold/something sillie and metallic-ly coloured whopper of a frill that travelled from the front of the waist up around the neck and back down to stop just below the wearer's collar bone.
i wanted some ott bow/bunnie ears on headpieces - probably just metallic also/black..a little like louis vuitton S/S09 did at the louvre !
sidenote1:i think every 'idea' of mine has referenced a really obvious copy of someone else..revolting.
and 2:embarrassed at the link content in this post ! hahah, sick of it yet ?


this was nuclear-cloud-shape inspired. i guess direct theft from chris kane. again i'm totally ripping off other people. thank god my career tangent isn't based around anything to do with fashion..this week.






i have so much more to write about and some of my favourite recent Selby pictures to post. so there's a large chance i'll post another blog tonight if i find nothing better to do.