Inspirations for my SKITZO range!!

So 3rd year came, and the pressure was on! Start designing and working on you final year range, these design could make or break you!

All the money, tears, breakdowns, litres of redbull play biopluss, sleepless nights came down to this… fail this and your done… you start thinking of your first day at varsity and the words that would always linger through your head that Harm said: You are all sitting here today thinking im going to draw pretty pictures and sewing pretty things reality is that 80% of you will never make it in the fashion industry (some scary but true words).

So i started designing dabbling and playing around. About one week back from my Industrial training i got extremely sick, sitting in the doctors waiting room, and read this poster, and i knew that would be my inspiration (its true you can get inspiration in the weirdest places)

The poster was on Schizophrenia and said the following: IMAGINE SEEING SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE DOES. YOU TRY TO EXPLAIN IT BUT NO ONE SEEMS TO UNDERSTAND!. Is this not any designer or artist? Does this mean we are all schizophrenic?

And so my Skitzo journey and journal started!

Through out the year we worked on a journal following your inspirations, constraints, challenges and ups and downs through out you process.

Here are some of my journal entries for inspiration:

BRILLIANT

Circular, square, rectangular, macro or micro, sequins and rectangular beads lend sparkle and shine to skirts, dresses and tops with no exceptions. Shiny, shot and brocade fabrics storm the catwalks, bent on making a impact on next winter. Its cue the seventies in modern version with dainty overcoats, shorts, empire line dresses, with puffball skirts and tops embellished with damasked fabrics, which since time immemorial have lent a touch of nobility.

ART GALLERY

Next winters wardrobe rather calls a modern art gallery with clothes sporting trompe-l’oeil effects, fashion designers have fun playing with prints and never-seen-before shapes and colours, increasingly resembling artistic master pieces. Strokes of colour, whirls burrowed from great bygone painters and short dresses, embellished with graphics, are a must. Reference is also made to 80’s pop art, a mood which has inspired both past and present creatives. Highly colourful and 60’s mini and maxi floral prints hold promises of a fun packed winter.

 Fashion designers are not insensitive to modern art paintings. They reinterpret them, personalizing them to create lively, captivating garments of a thousand guises. Brushstrokes of colour, wearable works of art, state-of-the-art transparency, graphic effects, a fashion workshop that exhibits fine canvases. Mickey mouse celebrates his 80^th birthday and the catwalk artists interprets him to. Seventies-flavoured hippy looks with kaftans and dresses reminiscent of the music and moods ofWoodstock.

COLOUR

More colourful than ever! Without exception, a spectrum of bold rainbow colours explode onto the catwalks. The sunshine shade of bright yellow, defined by Frida Giannini as sunflower is ideal for daywear and also lights up long dresses in a most surprising manor. Flanked by orange and cherry red, each to its own, color adds a carefree fresh appeal to otherwise absolutely simple lines. Black disappears to be replaced by chocolate, a treat for sweet tooths. Sharp electric blue and shocking pink are a real must.

RAINBOW

The catwalks are invaded by splashes of colour, a whirlwind of different shades for the coming winter, either brilliant or pastel, always decisive. Purple reigns supreme, holding onto its protagonist role with a thousand and one versions, on draped dresses and sculptured trenches. Green makes a timid appearance lit up for the evening, on clean cut, severe sheaths. Red and orange opt for a more discreet look, strikingly combined with yellow and grey.

In my next blog ill show you some of my designs, and the final product!

STAY SANE AND COLOURFUL!!!

Ladies day!

Just a little fun post, about friends and wine! (no fashion this time)

So this past Tuesday all the ladies from work decided that we need a break from the men for the day, and we decided to take a boat cruise through The St Francis Canals and on the Kromme River.

My boss Liezl sent out the following mail to all the men in the building: Hi Guys, so today the ladies will get together at 13h00 and leave in a mass march to Brisan on the canals, please keep the fort… We will be back on Friday!! Just kidding we will be back tomorrow!

It was a little windy, but the again we do live in St Francis Bay, so it is expected! So we all got together at Brisan on the canals, a beautiful B&B run by Brian and Sandy Cunningham. Brian looked a bit intimidated by all the ladies, and gave up the reigns as tour guide and had his wife take us out.

And so the ladies braved the open waters. Very nervously i must add, since when the men did this a while ago, they hit 5 sand banks and had to push the boat back out, and of us would be willing to do this (maybe a couple of wines would make us brave).

We had not even left the jetty yet and Olga and Eugenie in true F&B style started pouring the drinks. and getting out the snacks. We had a good circle going with the snacks, passing around to each other, but somehow you will only get the snacks once and then when you look again either Olga or Kirsty has hogged the food once again! PS I would love their motabalism!

After lots of nervous giggles and panicked screams, we made it passed the mouth, and into the Kromme river we ventured. We just made it passed the Kromme river Bridge when the wind suddenly picked up and the waves of the river started soaking us (Poor Olivia was targeted, it was kind of like the cat syndrome, its as if the river knew she did not like it and kept going for her)

So we all decided we will turn back and rather just stick with a cruise through more of the canals.

Note the change in clothing, yes the wind in St Francis never disappoints.

Note by now we have been on the boat for about 3hours, wine flowing, maybe we have not thought this through completely? we dont have the same luxuries the men do (if you know what i mean). So we docked at one of the jettys on the canals to have a little braai on the boat and mission FIND A TOILET STARTED!!!!

Luckily we had our own personal chef Angie with us follo her on angeliqueca.wordpress.com

And the as i call it i gotta ……. dances started

Heehee, all better now!!

We docked back at Brisan and had sundowners there over looking the most amazing sunset! A perfect end to a perfect day!

Thanx Ladies for a fun day, lets do so again!

Never Hide!

Rockstars!

So now i have had i little more experience with doing promotions, and my ideas are getting a little bigger.

My second in-store promotion i did was for the Rayban promotion called Never Hide! It was all about being unique, being your self, not being afraid and out of the box designs!

The whole never hide theme was inspired by rock and roll, so it was only appropriate for us to set up a rock stage.We got some  instruments, guitars, keys, drums and we started setting up.

For this promotion i used some of my very good friends, who all are model worthy and all are actual musicians(and they each got 2 pairs of sunnies sponsored by Sunglass Hut)!

Edgars sponsored us the clothing for the day, and i must say my friends have never looked better! I think i can be a stylist for the rich and famous!

We had some fun with them as well, and finally one of the customers got Jason to laugh when he started unbutton his shirt and sing! It was a good laugh!

The guys kept this pose for 10min! i was super impressed!

Thanx again Kirsty, Jason and Reinart you were amazing!

Keep Rocking guys, and remember NEVER HIDE, be true to yourself!!

 

 

Instore Promotions!

Hey Guys!

Ok so this one i did not organize but this one was so much better!

Shakoor, who is one of the guys that works at Edgars Walmer Park organised a Brands promotion day for some of the top perfumes in the world! And somehow he swayed the Edgars managers to allow them to use my clothing!!

I of course jumped at the opportunity and designed and made the dresses in just three days! It was a big opportunity and the clothing would be seen by lots of people during the weekend of the promotions.

Once again Bianca from Mould Model Academy offered us some of her models, and the were once again absolutely stunning and perfect!

During the day we had a bit of fun with them and tried to get them to move, we popped balloons behind their backs, a customer tried tickling the one girl, we even got the clown that always pounces through walmer park to come and make them laugh, im telling you these girls did not move at all, no smiles, no cringes, no screams, no nothing!!

Here are some of the photos of teh models and dresses i made!

Thanx again Shakoor!! Sold 6dresses that day, and of course i got too say my clothing was in Edgars (even if it was only for a weekend)

IM FAMOUS!!!! HEHE

She is in Vogue!

When i was working for Luxottica, i had the opportunity to do some fun instore promotions.

The first one i got to do, was for a Vogue Sunglass campaign called She is in Vogue! It was the new signature Kate Moss sunnies, they were bold, big and fun! Bianca who owns Mould Model Academy in Port Elizabeth was kind enough to lend us some of her models for the day (and they were more than happy since they each received a R1000 Sunglass Hut voucher) and my lovely friends Este Van der Merwe and Marjorie Erasmus who own a beaytiful cotjing label called Hoiden sponsored the lovely outfits.

The day i must admit started a bit shaky and we had a couple of hiccups but the day ended fabulous! Sales went through the roof, the models were gorgeous and we had a whole lot of fun!

Here are some of the fotos that i took on the day!

Myself and Tanya got forced by the models to try and stand still like a mannequin for 5minutes to see how they felt during the day! And yes its super hard my hats go off to them!

Stay tuned for some more of my promos!

PS Sunglasses are the best accessories that any person can rock!!!

 

 

MY LITTLE HOBBY!!

So lately i have started a little new hobbie, being the girly girl that i am, yes i have started doing acrylic dip and silk fibre nails!!!!

I have always loved doing beauty, including makeup, hair and nails. So as any other high school student i started weighing up my options, what is it that i want to do for the rest of my life? Do i want to sit in a office the whole day, do i want to travel, do i want to work with people, do i want to do 8-5 everyday have weekends off, do i want to be creative… millions of questions pop in your head and many tears accompany that.

My sister studied fine arts and photography, and my dad always said don’t go into arts, the artsy world i difficult to break in, do something that will be “practical” something that has definite job opportunities in the end. My mom on the other hand new i had a talent for all things beauty, i loved being a girl and everything that comes with it.

So i ended up with the following top 5 options (from first choice to last):

1. Beauty Therapy

2. Psychology

3. B-Com CA

4. Architecture

5. Fashion Design

Now its time to eliminate! Funny enough beauty therapy was the first to go, i loved the makeup and nails aspect of it, but i was not keen on the massaging, waxing and all the other treatments. (yes i know you can do the short courses on each individually, but that was not a “qualification” in my head).

Second to fly out the window was Psychology (wanting to specialize in child psychology), two problems: #1 being that if you get to your 3rd year and you are not excepted you are not qualified as a psychologist and only have a degree in social working. #2 being that at that stage of my life i think that emotionally i still was not strong enough and mature enough.

So 3 were left, and so came applications for all 3. Then came the trouble accepted for all 3!! But somehow i always new creativity would be my destiny… and Fashion it was!!

Hehe OK so i typed this far starting off with a point, and completely forgetting it (yes im a natural blond and im not scared to admit it). So in my next little blog ill get to the point i promise! give me 5 minutes a smoke and a glass of wine and ill remember!

TILL NEXT TIME!!!

KEEP BEAUTIFUL, FASHIONABLE AND MANICURED LADIES!!!!