SHOPS AND SIGHT SEEING!!

This has to be the highight of my trip to Paris. To the Flag ship store of Chanel!! OMG- it was stunning , stylish and classy. As I went in... to my left I saw beautiful picture of 'COCO' in her younger days...as I walked through ....there it was THE MIRRORED STAIRCASE!

I had to hold every inch of my strength in to not run up those stairs. The staff were lovely and the store just was so immaculate.

PARIS!!

I went to PARIS last week for Indigo..and it was amazing! it was nice to go with uni friends and Paris is always lovely to see.
Working on the stand at Paris was amazing to show off our work. great experience and it was nice to see what other colleges had done. There was a diverse interest in what clients wanted on my days on the stand. Some really knew what they wanted and did not look for anything else, and some just wanted a bit of everything, construction , print etc. Our stand I felt was much looked more polished and clean. other college stands looked like a college stand where ours looked professional!
Although my work was not the best I had done, it didn't get shown on the stand as much as i wanted it to be, but the first day I did actually sell something to my surprise! It just proves that although it wasn't my best work, someone else took interest. design really depends on the individual... and I'm not basking on my sale but SHOWS that it really doesn't matter if its an objective view on your work..everyone has a view and option.

You can see the scale of how big it was...and this is just one part!!

DESIGN IDEAS

Just a snippet of my sketchbook initial ideas. Relating all ideas to architecture and fashion. I also looking at gold work and how I can incorporate into my work. As I was at hand and lock I will try to use some of my contacts to see how much cost would come up to for gold work embroidery.
Im tryng to stick to clean lines but bold structures. Ineed to refine these ideas into more sophistated designs but feel its a step in the right direction in what I want to achieve in MP.

TOIL ON STAND, design ideas

These are a few toils I have done on the stand to start off my initial ideas. I love the sleeve design and think it worked very well. I'm sure this shape will be a big part of my final line up. Working with paper helps me to realise what shapes I can create withs different fabric.

HAND IN Indigo/ STAND WORK FOR MP

I was pleased to hand this project in and solely concentrate on my MP. up until now I was and find it hard as I was playing catch up with it as I wasn't in the right frame of mind to do that project. So I'm pleased its out of the way and a clean start for this project!!

I was looking at aeroplanes and their pattern to gain some inspiration in cut and toiling on the stand as this is how I generate ideas. I have done some stand work here to get me started with shapes and forms this is from my sketchbook..

GEHRY FOR TIFFANY

Gehry for Tiffany- crossing over to fashion

I find great inspiration form Gehry and his buildings. His form and shape to manipulate the metal looks stunning creating diverse structures.

This is defiantly going to be my main source of inspiration for a color pallet...GOLD!