My friends wedding

After I made the sash's for my friends bridesmaid dresses, I asked her if there was anything else I could do, she asked me if I would make the wedding ring cushion with the materials I had left over from the sash's. Here is the final result.

My friends wedding

This summer my friend is getting married at the place where I work, It is a massive manor house in Somerset. I wanted to help her with anything she needed doing, The bridesmaid dresses were chocolate brown and had a brown sash on them, she wanted me to change the brown sash into a gold one, here is an image of what i have done

Matthew Williamson s/s 2010

Loving Matthew Williamson as always, especially with his s/s collection, love the mixing of colours and the unique styles and ways he has put them together.

Absolute geniuses

Viktor and Rolf never seem to do anything without the shock factor, their so unique in everything they do! Love this video, really works well, this idea of hands on and mechanical.

A few moments of your time please.

If you have a spare 2 mins, please would be so kind as to fill out this questionnaire for me, it is to help me with having a better understanding of the world of Marketing.
Thanks

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CM76QYG

My Make Up Skills

This was some research I did with the Photo shoot I did in my first year. I wanted to play around with trying to make the human face look like an African animal without making it look childish.

Guerilla Marketing

I love the idea of Guerilla marketing, it is basically a kind of legal way of graffiting. I think if it is done well, then it can be very sucsessful, but if not done well, it may look tacky and cheap. Here I have collected some images which have really inspired me, they represent everything great about Guerilla Marketing and how it should be done. These images inspired me when playing around using CAD to try and produce something along the same lines as these images seen.

Work i can finally upload!!!

My final Trendbook was a project i did at the beginning of the year, it includes many styles and themes throughout, This was the first time i had used Illustrator CS4 and enjoyed the outcome.

Elements

I love these looks against one another due to the contrast in the clothing, it’s something that wouldn’t normally be seen next to each other but i thought it was really interesting.
I found the images bizarre to look at, but think they work well together, even though they are in no way able to connect to one another.

OH dear....

Due to a unfortunate chance, i was unable to send out my press release and invitations, contact was persistantly made but i recieved or heard nothing back from the person i needed to to be able to send out the press release. This made me feel very annoyed and let down due to the amount of work i had put into the making of the press release, I knew nothing about a press release or anything to do with PR before and had to teach myself all about the industry i am so passionate about. But instead of getting annoyed and give up i decided that if this was the indusrty i wanted to enter into i would have to get use to it. So i took a deep breathe and just got on with it, i emailed Zoe and asked her if there was anything else i could do which would be simular to sending a press release out. So we decided on sending a covering email which would include the links to all the press releases from The Photographers Gallery and Selfridges. I was asked to send this to my contacts that i had previously collected when thinking about sending the press release out.

This had a positive outcome as i got some feedback from the bloggers which i was really pleased about, they basically explained how they would love to come to the event and are planning to come. Though this didnt allow me to explore design opportunities as what i was asked to send out was very limited in design etc.

I am pleased about the way i handeled the situation and feel that i dealt with it well and professional, this has also been said by my tutor which i was very happy about. I feel this error and mishap has been a major learning curve for me personally and professionally.

Experimenting around

I wanted then to try out different ways and techniques for sending out an invite, sending invitations reminded me of my childhood and how exciting it was and is to recieve an invite, This made me think about sending it in a paper form through the post, This would have been a mission to do as finding the addresses of the bloggers would have been almost impossible due to data protection. I could have however emailed them and asked for it, but i feel that would have ruined the element of suprise. Here are a few photos which i took of a invite that i created myself that would of been sent out of i were to have the addresses and the go ahead from The Girls.

Inviting techniques

I wanted to send the press release to bloggers via PDF and email. I also wanted to include some kind of invitation which would be personalised to the blogger and would be inviting them to the event. Below is a design which could be used for this use.

The Girls - The Paper Eaters - Long Live the Photo-Story!

As i have stated i have been researching PR and all aspects to do with it. I have mainly focused on looking into press releases as this was something that i discussed with one of the members of The Girls. We decided on sending a press release out to bloggers of the fashion world. I was really excited to see all the different blogs and to build up relationships with these bloggers. Below are a few of the press releases which i made up.

You go girls!!

Just a quick few!

seen as though i missed designing so much i felt like doing a few rough ones, it so nice to have control over clothing again!!yay!! i got my insperation from an essay i done recently which looked into culture, i want to explore culture through a non obvious and manipulate it in a subtle way!!

I miss designing!!

Being in uni we were given the option of what we wanted to specialise in, i have always wanted to specialise in the PR and communication side of fashion but i have come to realise how much i miss designing!! therefore i will be designing for my own satisfaction!!...coming soon.....
Hope you like what you see

The girls at the Ultralounge.

The Girls Zoe Sinclair and Andrea Blood were a hit at the Ultralounge Selfridges. The event seen the girls transform themselves and the ultralounge into the working headquaters of The Paper Eaters-Long Live the Photo-Story!

Its been a while....

I noticed how long it has been since i last wrote on my blog, ooops..... think this may have something to do with the amount of work i have going on at the moment with uni. This made me think of something to write about however. When recently writing an essay for one of my tutors, i wanted to write about fashion culture and the differences between Vogues from around the world. I was mostyl interested in Vogue India, as i have always loved the colours, clothing and the culture related to India. I found this image and thought it was really unique in the sense of it being different to most images we see in fashion magazines, I was wrong, this image exploits the average citizens of India, the people you see are average Indian people, but they are wearing clothing from top designers, the umbrella is apparently 160 days wages for the average Indian citizen!