I have been very long in coming back on that page and write a piece of my story, I know, but that what we call "being busy" and surely I was.
Well so what happened?
Do you remember in my last post, I was talking about a secret project??? Well now I can reveal it. My dearly boyfriend turned 30 on the 21st of October, so I was not gonna let that special occasion just go in the air, I organised with the great help of his friends and family a mega surprise party.
It was hell of a job, I can now say, 2 months of very hard work !! But, well, now it is done, vereything went fine and he was very happy and greatfull for the surprise.
Now that this event took most of my energy, I can say that it was also very hard to juggle between the master of fashion design and work and the travels that come with that work.
Only 1 thing keeps me going: I absolutely LOVE the master !! :-)
It is so good, I am learning a lot. I can also tell where in my previous company we went wrong and what we could have done better, so it is quite nice to see these things and be able to say, "next time I do it better".
What is the master about?
Basically there are 2 parts: First part is dedicated to the fashion design, with history of fsahion, how to draw our designs in illustrators, how to use differents computerized programs nowadays, how to make your own patterns from a design...And the second part, is about marketing, how to build your business, how to promote yourself, where you need to be to master your business etc...
It is so interesting, there is so much to learn there. Sometimes when I come home after 3 hours of intensive learning, I feel that my head is about to burst but that's great. I am very content because my brain is working, I am THINKING I am being STIMULATED...This is an awesomely feeling that I was desperately looking for, in vain, in my now lost the point current professional career in sciences. Knowing this, there is no way back there for me, I am definately not made for this world where I am only meant to work like a robot and not think.
I only hope I will keep the excitement and the need to learn all the way through my fashion adventure.
Enough of the deep words, I wanted to talk to you about some of the great works I had to make so far for the class.
First I started by making a mood board or collage that would represent the great era of the 40's and 50's. So I search the internet about some of the greatest designers like Dior or Balenciaga, and what was the fashion at that time and in which context this played a role and blah blah blah and I ended up pulling up this:
I am quite proud of myself. I think it work out well. :-)
Then I had to customize a jacket...I know what everyone think about customization, but well in this case just forget it. The teacher went crazy the first day we all came with the idea of cutting out the jacket in pieces and add this and that, blah blah....we were all wrong he said. "That is not customization but transformation, which will be your next project". Huuuuuuuuuuuuhhhh !!! iiiiiiyyyyyyyeeeaaaahhh !! Well, I had to go back to the drawing board and think about something else an quick. So I start by making this other moodboard:
I don't know if you get the idea or no?
And this is the jacket in question that I need to customise.
And.....
this is what I did of it :-))))
What do you think?
Crazy !? No ?
Please do not hesitate to leave your comment. I have not submitted it yet to the teacher, so I don't know if he will like it or not. That is the risk.
oh shoooo !! I did not check the time and now I have to go. I leave you guys to reflect on this and hopefully will be back in there soon.
Cheers.
LV
