Teamwork!!

Before i became Jeanies 1st year i had never spoke to charlotte so meeting her was really nice! We really got on and just got down to what jeanie had asked us to do we worked together when we was both in at uni! Jeanie was great as well always there if we needed her or advice on how she wants us to do things, she always made sure we were ok with what we were doing and was really understanding if we couldn't always be in! But always gave updates via texts and e-mails! we all worked together in helping jeanie with her collection, it was a fun and good experience! it was nice when me and charlotte got each other as partners as dresses! it worked really well and we had a good routine on dressing the models!!

Graduate fashion show Derby Assembly rooms!

Being backstage as a dresser was a really good experience and it was fun! it wasn't half as bad as i thought it was going to be, I think all us 1st years pulled together and got on with it whilst having a laugh at the same time! All of the models were really nice and mine and charlottes 'jordanna' was a real laugh! They all looked great in the collections and even though there were slight problems with a few of the graments 'the shorts' things was easily dealt with and everything ran smoothly!

Seeing bits and pieces of the 3rd years collection in Fashion at uni was nice because you got to see a bit about there collection and even got to speak about there collections as well as gathering information about my own 3rd year!! But actually seeing all the collections on the models backstage was amazing and they all fantastic!! Well done 3rd years!!

More Head Pieces

Jeanie asked me and charlotte to make more heap pieces to go with the extra to garments for her collection! these head pieces were a lot more subtle than the previous to! I added the zip for detail around the front because the metal of the zip makes the headpiece have edge!!

Hair and Make-up

Through the weeks of focusing on the bigger things i didn't have a chance to really blog about the hair and the Make-up, Jeanies collection is very strong and edgy so naturally the hair and make-up had to be on the same level! Jeanie had us have our make-up with very pale skin and smokey dark eyes, then adding the lipstick which was a rich colour that stood out. i researched some images on big hair and dark make-up!!

The Collection

Jeanies collection is astonishing in my eyes, i think shes a brilliant designer. Her clothes are edgy yet have sophisticated structure to them. basing her ideas on broken streets such as rubble, constructional things, graffiti, worn textures! she uses all this is as the concept of her designs. You can see in fabric she uses in her collection how shes adapted this and interporated it into her work.

GRAFFITI

Some of jeanies designs have a prints that she had printed her self, on parts of the print there is graffiti. Graffiti is also something jeanie looked at for inspiration and to help build the concept of her designs.

I did some research on graffiti and tags, tags being the artists name. Over Easter i went to Amsterdam for four days and was in ore at how different artist spray over there its almost like it creates a story! whilst walking down one of the high streets i saw a dress in a shop, the whole dress had a graffiti print on it the fabric was amazing. I fell in love.

Graffiti has a lot of history behind it originating from the streets its like poetry and art in one, as well as identity.

Pattern cutting

I was asked to do some pattern tracing for jeanie, which of course i oblijed to. It was good for me to do as it was more practice for my pattern cutting skills.