JUST ANOTHER FASHION STUDENT

snakeytime

2008-10-16T15:33:00.000-07:00

possibly the funnest dress i own.

jengacastle

2008-10-14T17:25:00.000-07:00

This is what happens when i stay in for too long. Jenja castles.

chavnight

2008-10-14T17:16:00.000-07:00

I didnt know it was chav night till i got there so i stole someones hat and went back to my east end roots

starbucksstealing

2008-10-14T17:14:00.001-07:00

Number of starbucks mugs stolen this week: 7

vintagejumblesale

2008-10-14T17:02:00.000-07:00

I found a really good vintage shop in Nottingham today. Even though it looks like a jumble sale they had some really nice things

Literally hundreds of dusty shoes

I bought 2 things - a blue patchwork dress that is huge so im going to take it in and the funniest snake dress ive ever seen. I will take pictures of it soon.

fresherss

2008-10-14T16:52:00.001-07:00

The new family. Well 3 of the people i live with, the other 2 were probally staring at the lazers.
There was so much shit cheesy music all week going from sclub 7 to queen to razorlight. But i got drunk and danced anyway.

mynewlife

2008-10-14T16:41:00.000-07:00

Ive moved! i now live in Nottingham trent university halls...
its just bigger than a matchbox

and this is the excuse of a wardrobe

But i love it.
Freshers week has just ended and the actual fahion design course has started. Im doing pattern cutting this week...scary times.

ohstopitbalmain

2008-09-29T16:15:00.000-07:00

seriosly this balmain S/S 09 is too much.

I would happily wear both of these everyday for the rest of my life.

afternoontea

2008-09-29T14:32:00.000-07:00

nice tea.

fakeflowers

2008-09-29T14:25:00.000-07:00

Since im moving into nottingham uni halls soon ive started to collect decorations to make it look nice. So far i have 3m of white tulle, fake flowers, bunting and a clip on bird which actually works as a hair clip too, and a long mirror which ive been painting.

wenttovisitvjayjay

2008-09-29T13:33:00.000-07:00

Laura and the Katies

The best hot chocolate in the world

elephants made of plastic leaves.

I went to visit laura in her new brighton house and met her lovely flat mates. One is a bit of a perv though.
Got to hers at 4, went for hot chocolate and talks about dead sea gulls on roofs and then we drank vodka back at her house.
The plan for the night was to go to a pub then a club but it ended up with going to a houseparty which was so packed but it was good then we went to investigate brighton and one of the katies gave us an ultimatum of getting chips or her getting sick everywere. After deliberating we decided on chips and went on a long and trecherous journey which ended in a nasty kebab place were i got a strawberry ribena. The night ended with us going back to the house for more vodka and dub step sessions.

notsohighhighheels

2008-09-18T13:38:00.001-07:00

I got some new shoes today which i can actually walk in, which is handy, for walking.

Im ashamed to say were they are from.

bowsonwhitedresses

2008-09-18T13:38:00.000-07:00

really cool window displays in selfridges. Yes ive forgotten who they were by.

Fake snow. IT IS ONLY SEPTEMBER.

My new bow pin!

Free popcorn in a weird 1 minute cinema thing.

I had a really fun day today.
Met Laura at 1 to go shopping in Soho for art materials so we got to see the pretentious but good looking indie boys in music shops. Then we tried on £200 stripper shoes that we did not buy. We then went to selfridges to look at their rediculoulsy early christmas displays.

The day ended with drinking sangria and eating olives in st christophers place and getting free hot chocolates from starbucks.

= GOOD DAY

strawberrysandcream

2008-09-14T10:27:00.000-07:00

Today i was sad becuase lizzie left today so i got dressed up for no reason in my new dress and shoes.

The shoes were £8 from primark but i cant walk in them and the dress is from spitalfields market and was £20

lacebowtie

2008-09-12T13:19:00.000-07:00

a while ago i ordered some lace collars from ebay and they came today!

and the lovely ebay seller also sent me this pretty bowtie pin which i love more than breathing

whatiboughtinthebootsale

2008-09-12T13:02:00.000-07:00

flowery fabric - 50p
bag of ribbons - 20p
lace caridgan -£1.00
ring - 50p
'rolex' watch - £2.00
pretty button tin - free!

mybabyisleavingme

2008-09-12T05:10:00.000-07:00

Lizzie is leaving me on Sunday to go to Bristol uni. In a couple of weeks Laura is also leaving me to go to Brighton and finally on the 4th oct i will also be leaving for Nottingham. We are all studying fashion/textiles

Yesterday me laura and lizzie had our goodbye day which included shopping, buying cheap heels which made us 6ft tall and wearing them down oxford street.

Then we went for dinner and 2 for 1 cocktails at giraffe in liverpool street. Our night ended with watching tea dancing by spitalfields market which was strange but lovely.

I will be very sad on Sunday.

bootsales

2008-09-12T04:50:00.000-07:00

Flowers for 65p

my favourite stall if only for this sign.

5am start was not nice but i was woken up with kittens licking my elbows so not so bad.
Bootsales are now my favourite place to shop i spent a total of £10 and i got so much stuff!
Now i just have to take photos of my new (old) things..

royalacademyarts

2008-09-09T05:10:00.000-07:00

I couldnt take any photos inside the gallery but here are some right outside.
Inside was even better and the jeff koons egg was more amazing in real life.

espania

2008-09-09T03:58:00.000-07:00

The airport looked like it had eyes

Yes that is chicken IN a can. i threw up in my mouth a little.

Decorative carrot.

CAT MAN. he was always feeding the stray cats of spain

I miss it so much. Ive decided as soon as ive finished with uni im moving to another country a nicer one. One were no chav children throw chicken bones at you. Ive narrowed it down to Tokyo, Sweden, Spain, New york, Australia.

lacecorsets

2008-09-05T04:37:00.000-07:00

I got this lace corset a while ago on ebay but i decided it was just too frilly so i cut off the edge.

This dress was a charity shop buy. it was a floor length laura ashley so i took it up a million inches took it in to fit me sewed up the sleeves and changed the neckline

and here is the joining of both lace and ashley in the war zone i call my room.

sanctuaryfestival

2008-09-02T14:48:00.000-07:00

Arriving all clean and new with unwise choices of bedding

mid-day tent spooning with laura

lots of knees and hands

vodka breakfasts in the tent that nearly flew away

the drum and bass tent, were we spent most of the weekend which always had good music and rediculous dancing.

A weekend with all the people that i love resulted in a fun muddy weekend.

newdress

2008-09-02T14:33:00.000-07:00

new dress from salvation army in bethnal green mixed with weird settings on the camera.

electricrasberry

2008-09-02T04:01:00.000-07:00

A close up of an LED lighter. But i think its looks like an electric rasberry.

rollercoastertopsyturvey

2008-09-02T03:30:00.000-07:00

easily excited by the prospect of fast rides and XL teacups

on the XL teacups

queing for the front seats of colossus

amusement parks make it ok to eat ice cream all day, ride plastic horses, have fake tattoos and dance to merry-go-round music.

twickenhamistwiceasnice

2008-09-01T13:44:00.000-07:00

Robyns house in twickenham has become my second home, she doesnt know this yet. Its just really nice to get away from adults and london sometimes. And theres a park near her house with deer that run around in it!

seasideweekend

2008-09-01T12:31:00.000-07:00

bright lights. gay bars. body popping. vodka jellies. falling on pebbles. midnight swims.

Brighton is one of the best places in england. 6 gay men asked me to have their babys which i will count as a good thing.

goldenbows

2008-08-29T12:13:00.000-07:00

impulse buy

mycathasbadtaste

2008-08-28T17:51:00.001-07:00

i can't look him in the face anymore.

londoncollegeoffashion

2008-08-28T17:30:00.000-07:00

This exhibition actually finished a couple of weeks ago but i just found the photos. Basically everyone had to use calico fabric to make their dresses and have architecture as a theme. Mine is the triangle one. The girl who made the one with the long sleeves was a bit of a twat.

oneweekofsunshineisallweneed

2008-08-28T06:13:00.000-07:00

London fields park, Hackney

Pinner park, Harrow
During the 1 week of sunshine that we had in the UK every single park was rammed but it was still nice to drink cheap cider out of plastic champagne glasses

aprilshowers

2008-08-28T05:41:00.000-07:00

We had come out of egg club in london to find it snowing for the first time this year. It was magical but really really cold.

A new start

2008-08-27T14:42:00.000-07:00

The last post on this blog was 22nd February 2008. It is now 27th August. = I am rediculous at this but i will try harder.

A lot has happened since 22nd February so i will try and sum up in the next few posts what ive done...

OPEN DAYS

2008-02-22T14:13:00.000-08:00

Although i havent posted in a week it is for good reasons - OPEN DAYS
here is a summary of what i think of the universitys i have seen:

Winchester: the textiles & fashion course looks really fun but the town looks like an oversized retirement home.

Kingston: the fashion course has really good industry links apparently. But for some reason they want you to be amazing at photoshop = me not applying.

Brighton: Obviously the place is brilliant and the course sounds really good aswell BUT they only have spaces for 24 on the fashion course and 700+ apply. hmmm.

Loughborough: There are so many things wrong with this place that i cant list all of them but the worst reasons are - Its in a field. There are about 7 shops in total. There is a few night clubs who all play 'cheese music' i dont want to find out what cheese music is. Everyone wears ugg boots. The head of textiles seemed suicidle and felt the need to explain to everyone why UCAS was so 'tacticle' this year. I feel if i go there i might be peer-presured into wearing ugg boots.

Nottingham: Loved it but it is verrrry cold.

Bristol: Havent been to see it yet but apparently its a shed in a field.

London College of Fashion: im already there so i know what that i love it but getting on the womenswear course looks very unlikley.

OLD IS GOOD

2008-02-15T11:32:00.000-08:00

Just what i need- another online vintage shop to tempt me. But here it is theURBANcollection
Its got everything you want in an online shop, well edited, well organized and not extortionate prices. So without further ado: my favourites: red peplum mini dress - casual enough for day but demure enough for night, the graphic two-tone green dress and the leather peplum dress which i have bought - pics will follow when i recieve and i expect that'l be a while as its an american website.
As for the accessories front, they have some serious wine coloured strap heels and they always seem to have a variety of lace up victoriana style boots. The only thing ill complain about on the shoes front is that almost all of the shoes are sizes 7-10 which is no good for people like me with size 5!
Anyway this site is definatley added to my favourites list.

LOVELY RUFFLES

2008-02-14T13:22:00.000-08:00

Oh ruffles you are so pretty and you make me smile, so its lucky that im seeing lots of them in the spring summer 08 collections and mostly recently from St martins graduate Christopher Kane. Kanes s/s 08 consisted of de-constructed denium, oversize sequins and RUFFLES lots of ruffles.. and it just so happened that today at my college we were taught how to create these fabric shapes.

How to create a ruffle: cut a circle of fabric with a smaller circle in the middle then cut through to the inner circle. Then all you do is hold it up so the length of fabric drapes and there you have it!
Below i have shown a couple of things you could do with your ruffle but the possibilites are endless.. as a sticky up collar, the edge of a dress, cuff of a sleeve...

ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER SKIRT

2008-02-12T15:45:00.000-08:00

One trend that is probally easiest to carry off is the romantic one - theres a variation of it every year - another reason to never throw your clothes away!
On a boring Sunday i decided to do something with this trend and knowing that i had lots of lovely chiffon in a draw somewhere and some left over fake leather (is there a name for it?!) i set to work. i did a moodboard first to see what things i wanted to include and..well i like doing them. I decided that i wanted to make a skirt using gathering at the waist to make a pretty fairy like style and use different shades of neutral coloured chiffon. But i also wanted to give it a harder edge to stop it looking to airey fairey so thats why i have added a leather waist band.

I have not hemmed the skirt yet so thats why it looks a bit straggely, but i might leave it like that..

COPY CAT

2008-02-11T15:16:00.000-08:00

For a while now ive been trying to find a copy of the christopher Kane leather circle skirt (there is no way i could afford the real thing without resorting to selling my cats, family etc.) Ive tried ebay - using keyword like leather and gathered but all i get is a transvestite shop trying to sell me a crotchless pvc dress (since when were dresses not crotchless??)

So anyway ive made one. It didnt exactly work because its not a circle/skater skirt but it is gathered and (fake) leather so it has some kind of hint at the original?!
(please excuse the mess that is my room)

PO PO POLICE

2008-02-06T08:55:00.000-08:00

I passed this in Bricklane yesterday. I think it used to be a crack den but theyve borded it up recently, sad really it look much more interesting when it had teddy bears on crucifixes..(hmm) anyway this is the wonderful work of mighty mo....

Last night me and queen laura went to Ministry. All of the signs pointed to it being an awfull night - It was raining. Bad music. Too many people wearing smock tops with flared jeans to even count. And far too many kitten heels to be alloud. All in all the fashion was atrocious BUT vodka and mixer was 1 pound 50p so it got considerably beter! On top of that everyone got free police hats. I have no idea why. But ive decided to were mine out wherever i go

WARNING: bad quality phone photo

drape and draw

2008-02-03T13:52:00.000-08:00

Oh Summer when will you come and resuce me from the icy grip of Winter??

On another note i have just stumbled across pictures from my 'drape and draw' lesson at LCF. I have decided that this will be my first post as i cant think of anything else.
'drape and draw' involves getting into pairs and pinning fabric on one of your pair to create some sort of design - and then drawing it. Its really fun!