LCA-Fashion Show 2010

I helped with dressing and setting up for Leeds College of Art graduate fashion show, and was really impressed with majority of what I saw, although I didn't see the show as i was backstage, it must have been amazing, and am so impressed with it all especially considering they were told in December they would have no funding and would have to organise it amongst themselves, it was in project space Leeds and I think this was a great locations and was also cheap compared to everywhere else. I liked that I got to speak to other years as well. Well done LCA Fashion graduate 2010 you've done well.

Graduate Fashion Week

I went to London yesterday to visit the Graduate fashion week exhibition and went to the Gala show, I was very impressed with what I saw and now feel extremely motivated to do some fashion work, and am very excited by the possibility that I could be doing that in 2 years. I really liked some of the work by other universities and found it interesting to look at some of the other ones I has looked at going to and some of my friends attend. I was particularly impressed by Leeds College of Art, the show looked really good, was nice to actually see the garments and sketch books up close and really liked that there was an arty feel to the work rather than it look computer generated, a lot of uni's work all looked the same and there was no individuality, this wasn't the case for art colleges. I was also impressed by Edinburgh Art college, Nottingham trent, Northumbria and Liverpool John Moores.

Leeds College of Art^
University of Wales Newport^
Leeds College of Art^
Nottingham Trent University^
Leeds College of Art; Cat Ibbitson^
Nottingham Trent University^
Leeds College of Art^
Leeds College of Art; Claire Lambert^
Nottingham Trent University^
Leeds College of Art^

PPD Presentation

I gave a presentation based on how I have found my first year at Uni including strengths and weaknesses, I don't feel as if I managed to get out what I wanted to say and kept repeating myself as the nerves got the better of me. I feel over all with the course I did expect to learn more making but understand why the course is set out as it is and as Angie said you must learn to walk before you can run. There is nothing stopping me doing extra making and pattern cutting in my own time and I would really like to start doing this as well as making more of my own clothes. I struggled with my words with the presentation but wanted to say that overall i am happy with the course and have had a good year, although uni wasn't what I expected and struggled at the beginning as I live in private unipol flats where I didn't get into halls and could not afford some of the bigger private halls, where I live is very anti-social but luckily made some really good friends on the course and have a good friend in my flat too. I feel more 'getting to know each other' exercises were needed during freshers as it was the social aspect that made me really not enjoy my first few months at Uni, wanting to come home a lot, more recently I have been a lot happier and am going to really miss some of the amazing people I have met in Leeds over the summer.

Retro Prim and retro vintage trend boards

Craft package hangers

Final maxi skirt - Interdisciplinary

These are the pictures of my final maxi skirt and the craft package that accompanies it, I made the skirt from strips of fabric which I had ruffled some of which I had sewn into as well, I then stapled these together in the shape of pattern pieces I had already made. Problems that occurred where that the staples wouldn't hold any slightly thick pieces of fabric so I also added some glue onto the skirt, the skirt is also heavy which made it slightly difficult to work with, with the amount of staples too it really strained my hand, so feel maybe glueing it in the first place would have been a better idea.

My crafts package includes a garment bag with some ruffles on it, two hangers and a set of labels, one old with my name and some small rocks, another a leaflet to make the exhibition piece seem more like its in a exhibition and another a necklace I made by sticking a rock to a chain.

PPD third year assistant day 5

This week I helped Uzma by unpicking some of her garments and cutting some bits of binding out, I then went to town to get some garment bags and a zip for her, when I came back she got me to look through her photoshoot photos and play with the lighting and edit them slightly then add on her logo in different ways to create possible poster ideas for her development.