Inspirational London

This post has taken me forever to put up, I kept looking at the amount of photos and getting overwhelmed! I wanted to do a post with all the photos from our London trip that relate to my collection. It was a bit late in the project to be gathering inspiration, but it was so much fun to actually be there and finding little details around the city that relate to my textile prints and my colour palette. It renewed my enthusiasm for the project and even gave me a few new ideas to work with! When the collection's done you'll be able to see how all of these images influenced my designs.


Photomosaics made with Big Huge Lab's Mosaic Maker (HUGE timesaver for photo-heavy posts!)

London photos

Just some random photos from around London, I'm saving some others for a more specific post on how my trip relates to my collection & inspiration. Let's just say we took a LOT of pictures of fences! I think pretty much all of these photos were taken by my mum.

Oh and also I changed back to the old blog header because on my feedback for this assignment I was told that the original image was stronger. What do you think? I'll probably make another new one when I'm procrastinating one day.

One of these acrobats ran over and tried to pick me up soon after we took this photo!

Our idea of 'lunch'

World Cup Final day. Shame the Netherlands didn't win! They clearly had the best fans.

Crits and Holidays

As I've mentioned before, this blog was made for a uni assignment this semester. That assignment has now been 'handed in' (how do you really hand in a blog anyway? Hi Donna!), and so you may have noticed that I've kind of slacked off with the updates. I've been VERY busy with working on the collection lately. I feel like I've said/written that sentence a thousand times over the last month or so but trust me, I'm just as sick of saying it as other people are of hearing it!
Tomorrow is quite an exciting day as I have my assessment at 9am, then I'll rush home and run around my apartment madly trying to pack my bag as I'm flying out to Paris in the afternoon! I make it sound like a spontaneous decision but my mum and I have been planning this holiday for over a year so I'm very excited that it's finally happening! We'll head to London after Paris and then back home for another semester of madness. I do plan on keeping the blog going next semester so stay tuned!
For now I'll leave you with some of the endless mood boards we're always making, and the range drawings for the final twelve looks (Should be able to click to enlarge).

Abstract


Sixties London

Streets of London

Sixties lifestyle
Sixties fashion
Colour palette
Textile print development
Range Drawings
See you in a few weeks!

Sixties London Fashion Boutiques

My dissertation was all about London's fashion boutiques in the late 50s and 60s. They may just look like funny little shops now, but their approach to visual merchandising and customer service was revolutionary at the time. I wish there were more colour photos of the boutiques but you can see a lot of the boutiques in colour in this video.

Carnaby Street

Bazaar

Owned by Mary Quant, Alexander Plunket-Greene & Archie McNair, King's Road

Biba
Owned by Barbara Hulanicki & Stephen Fitz-Simons, Kensington

Granny Takes a Trip
Owned by Nigel Waymouth, King's Road

Hung On You
Owned by Michael Rainey, King's Road

The Shop

Male W.1.
Owned by John Stephen, Carnaby Street

Apple Boutique
Owned by The Beatles, Baker Street

I was Lord Kitchener's Valet
Owned by Ian Fisk, Portobello Road

Foale & Tuffin
Owned by Marion Foale & Sally Tuffin

Top Gear
Owned by James Wedge & Pat Booth, King's Road

Bus Stop
Owned by Lee Bender