A Fashiony Post! (kind of)

I feel like I haven't posted in a very long time. Well posted much productively. I've been stupidly busy since before easter? Has it been that long? Gosh it has!

I recently did dressing for the third years fashion show. It was so hectic! It stressed me out for about two weeks! Panicking about not dressing some of the outfits correctly, and remembering what went with what, and not messing up the orders, or even the outfits themselves! No one really realises the pressures that the dressers go under, I mean the designers give us these massively confusing outfits to put on a model in under 3 minutes with shoes/tights/socks/jewellery/buckles, etc. to put on as well! And it's not just the confusing outfits it's also trying not to rip/break them when madly trying to get them off the model to put the next outfit on. I had the massive stress on top of this of my model being a size 5 and a half shoes, when her details had specified she was a size eight, which meant in the fitting/organising days I'd got her all size eight shoes. Massive drama there trying to swap around shoes!

But other than the massive dramas, it was a really good day. It was so interesting to see what the designers had done, and not only that but to feel the fabrics and to see the way things are made. That is a problem with catwalks and museums. You can't touch the fabrics, and you can't play around with the way it's been made. I often sit looking at catwalk collections and think how is that even made!!! I'd love to know! I should learn these things on a Fashion Design course, but so far, I've only learnt the basics, and the rest I make up in my head!

I'm really happy for the eighteen students from my uni who got on to Graduate Fashion Week. They all really deserved it. And for those who didn't get on, it really is such a shame. Everyone put a lot of effort into their designs and the final presentation, it was amazing. And it really gave me an insight on to what worked, and what didn't worked, and what to do and what not to do for my final collection.

I want to do dressing for Graduate Fashion Week to support the third years in their final leg of the journey, but at the minute I'm really unsure as I have an interview for a job which may be starting in June, and I probably won't even get the job. But I can wait and see! I hope I do. It would be sooo good!

Anyway a few images of my days at the Fahion Show:

These are images of some amazing shoes designed by one the lecturers at my uni Marcus Wilmont.

These are images of the models practising how to walk around the runway.

And on another note, I am completely, head over heels, in love with these Kurt Geigers:
They are everything I could ever want in a shoe! Skyscraper heel, shiny bits, quilting, velvety softness (even though velvet usually makes me spazz out), oooffff I just love them!

Well that shall be all as I must get some sort of sleep for tomorrow!

Night

xo

Listening to the Feed The Animals album by Girl Talk.