Holidaaaays

Hello hello.

How you all had a Merry Christmas and a kickass New Year! My Christmas holidays consisted of excessive shifts at the Hippodrome and having this years pantomime, Dick Whittington, drilled into my brain, but it was alriiiight! I enjoyed every shift - the people that I work with are so lovely. :)

My sketchbook was touched a total of four times over the past two weeks:
1. To put it in my bag
2. To take it out of my bag
3. To work on it on boxing day (minimally, I might add)
4. To put it back in my bag

I also told myself I won't make any resolutions this year because I rarely keep them, let alone remember them a week down the line so I'm going to share with you my er...own personal accomplishments over the last year!

1. I've become more comfortable with myself! The shyness is slowly going and I feel my ever-surpressed true self coming out more and more each day.
2. I've found something different and more interesting to do with my hair. Yay curls! Bye straight hair styles!
3. I'm (mostly..?) fully supporting myself this year. No rollover loan money this year - just good old fashioned working!
4. I've met a crapload of new people which is great! And I've also managed to still spent time (even though its so little nowadays!) with my old ones.
5. I've managed to lose a bit of weight without thinking about it! Yippee!

Yep that's about it. =D I am proud! Now to focus again and do this final collection - although to be perfectly honest, I don't have much to show for tomorrow's tutorial. My bad. :)

Deuces!

Week 3

Oh man. Where did the past two weeks go? ...uh oh. I just noticed that you know...times running out already. This is ridiculous. I did nothing since we started uni! Well I did stuff, but not enough! I need to make lists, but I'm still too lazy! Ugh this is bad. I need to get out of this funk, yo.

So went to uni today and guess who we all saw in the office? Satyen was sat chatting to Ali. To those who don't know who I'm talking about, he's this designer. He's a nice minimalistic designer, methinks, but everyone was quite wary of him this morning. From what my course mates and I noticed from last year, he was quite tough as a tutor. Could be nice, but then could be very nasty.

Yeah, there was a bit of fear in the room when he walked in and I was just sat doing my own thing in the studio and he comes up to me first. I wasn't actually scared, just unsure of where to start...but hey! It's was aaaaalright. We just had a casual chat about my work (or rather, my ideas) and he helped me realize that I needed to get on with it and edit my research down a bit.

I need to plan out my life now. I'm too comfortable to do work, so I'll make lists. Lists are always fun. x

Beep.

Awesome little dance. Gotta love your "viral" videos!

Got a call from the Hippodrome - they want me to show up for an interview at 6pm next week. I wonder how that will go...? I hope Monty gets an interview too. I only found out about the vacancies because of him in the first place :/

Nothing to report today really. Went to uni, came back early and now I'm attempting to design but I think I still need to do more research before I come up with things that I like and that are well...me! I want to start toiling next week so I need to crack on with it, man! I think it's time for another cup of tea soon.






Cosmic Wonder is an awesome company, btw. Yakinori Maeda is a genius.





And you see that? Korean Nylon did a Big Bang GDragon photoshoot and they just put him in a woman's cape (by Marc Jacobs)! But he still looks pretty fly. I think that's what I'll do. Put Victorianesque womens silhouettes on men and vise versa. Bang. x

Start of another week!

Happy Monday, ya'll.

Today was quite productive! I got a job this morning at yet another local cafe up the road! The lady made me make a cappuccino just to see if I could do it properly. Ohoho - I've been making coffees for too long. Part of me wants to go back to the easiness of Starbucks but most of me doesn't. Lawl. I bumped into the famous cupcake-making Rosy today at uni! It was lovely chatting with her cos I haven't seen her since I quit the 'bucks which means I haven't seen her aaaaaaaaaall summer. :) I'm glad we're on the same campus!

I ended up socializing most of the morning to be honest. Socializing is a very important part of Monday morning! ...well every morning, really, but epesh today cos it really got me in the mood to do work. Up the library I went again. I claimed a table and sat with magazines and books and just perused for hours with the random-ass sun darkening my already dark-ass neck. Why was the sun out today? Why was it such a nice day out? I swear this country is just just confused in the weather department, man. Last week it was cold and rainy and today was a completely different experience!!
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But it was nice to go out without a cardi :)

I got a brilliant book out of the library today! Just a few hundred pages with naked and clothed peeps in these different poses at all angles. Freakin' brilliant. Some of the pages are just inappropriately funny. Like the "Vicar blessing girl"...


Just LOOK! I know you can see it. And with that, I'll leave you. x

First day back!

Surprisingly, the first day wasn't too bad. I managed to knock down a shelf in the library and fill up a file with photos! Huzzah! We had a reeeeeeeally long talk about out brief which happens to be for our showpiece! ...I feel like a bit of a dunce cos I know that what a showpiece is, but I don't as well. It's that "wow factor" that never seemed to catch my attention (or maybe I just never pay attention? Who knows.) So why not try to familiarize myself with showpieces from well known designers?

I'm assuming that this it the showpiece for Marni's SS 10/11 collection. I think it sums up the whole collection pretty well actually. Take a look for yourself. My tutor said it didn't have to be a piece that blinds you or something, but it needs to be enough to stand out...at least subtly.

This brief sounds fun, but sadly, it stressed me out a wee bit because I wasn't so with it over the summer. I should have done more research, but no use worrying about it now! For the rest of this week I shall be drawing like a crazed artist, you know, one of those types who lives in paint stained trousers and always has dirty charcoal covered hands. Ha...

On a lighter note, I got to have a tutorial and talk about my ideas and the tutor I talked to was really inspirational! She gave me loads of advice and supported my ideas. One thing I need to do is send an email to the International Recruitment officer. My tutor said to get a better grasp of my market in England, or Korean even, I need to actually get proper opinions about boy bands in Asia and fashion. Basically I need to ask the recruitment officer if she recruited any Koreans so I can ask em questions. A bit shifty, but everyone at this university is mad so I don't think I'll cause much of an uproar asking for a supply of willing Asians.

Additionally my tutor said to go to Bath Spa and go to the Fashion Museum. I planned to anyway so I could really get a grasp on how Victorian clothing was made. All I need to do is call the museum and demand alone time with the garments =D Should be simples!

Took out some magazines today to check out how to layout my sketchbook. All things will (try to) be considered! My presentation this year will knock someone out - pow pow! ...or ya know, at least keep them interested! I'm quite excited about this year and I also have that sense of dread hidden behind all that excitement. This year shouldn't be too bad, should it? x