The Fashion Book

Over the last couple of months myself, Tribe Magazine and Plymouth College of Art have been working collectively to document the work of the (now graduates) 3rd years fashion students!


The Fashion Book; Featuring designer profiles, footage of the Graduate Fashion Show held in May, and video interviews from some of the students discussing their work.

Take a look at the amazing work produced by PCA's Fashion Graduates of 2014

View it here

Thank you to Foto Plus for the photography of the show, and lookbook images featured within this publication, to Dan McCluskey and Peter Griffiths from Tribe for their video footage, and to Tribe in general for offering me a position with the Magazine as a result of working together on this.

You can view my video interview here:

And if you were unfortunate enough to have not attended our Fashion Show, not to worry, you can watch it now:

On Becoming a Graduate

Well this post is well and truly overdue!

I am no longer a fashion student. I am officially a graduate. A 1st Class Honors Graduate. *Proud face moment*

Since my last post (way back in March), I have finished my collection, all 450 hours of pure handy craft, showcased at my end of year fashion show (which was amazing, by the way), exhibited at Graduate Fashion Week in London (which was also amazing, by the way), and then there was the PCA Summer Show!

PCA Graduate Fashion Show

PCA Fashion Graduates 2014

Yes I am missing everyone already!

...I then took a much needed 3 week break, of doing absolutely nothing, but lying in bed watching Netflix. I needed it. It was heaven.

Buuut. Then the hard work began! (Secretly I love it, I really really do), my calender is pretty much full up for the next 2 month and the number of emails popping up in my inbox is increasing more and more each day. Straight after graduating I was offered a position as the new Fashion Editor for Tribe Magazine (very exciting!), I have started work on my first 2 pieces of freelance work, and have been collaborating with 2 lovely independent businesses (Sew and Fabric, Truro Wool), as well as running a series of workshops and courses in association with them (who would have thought, me teaching?) and in October I will be returning to my beloved Plymouth College of Art to do a bit of work with the 2nd and 3rd years on the Fashion degree in Portfolio Development (so I don't have to leave after all?!) There are a few others bits and bobs beginning to happen - but nothing I can yet reveal!

I'm in the mind set right now of just saying 'Yes' to every opportunity that's coming my way. I'm viewing everything as a stepping stone, that will eventually lead me to being in the position to finally setting up my label. And when that day comes. It will. Be. Perfect.

My Grad Collection Tweeted by GFW

And on their Instagram

Some lovely words about my collection from Fashion Feed

Introducing...

...MY GRADUATE COLLECTION

After, god knows how long, I have finally, 100%, down to the very last detail, finalised my collection!

WOO!

And here it is guys...here. it. is.

D-Day

So Friday was DEADLINE DAY! And I am still feeling exhausted from the week leading up to it! *Yawn* This was our first deadline of our 3rd year, which means only 3 more to go, weheeey. I'm feeling pretty confident about it, I mean I know I worked as hard as I could and did the best I could, and at the end of the day that's all I can do right? But lets keep the fingers crossed until I get my grade back (If I don't get a 1st I will screeeeam! ahah)

Once I get my sketchbooks back, I'll do the post I promised about my design journey...it'll be a pretty long post so be prepared!

For the moment though (as I'm feeling brain dead right now!), I'd just like to share with you a few 'portfolio' pages I did quickly on Wednesday. These are certainly not finished or finalised boards which will actually be going into my portfolio, they're simply a starting point, of an ongoing process that I'll be working on from this point to be ready in time for when I finished. So any form of feedback is of course welcomed!

Because circles became such an integral part of my design process, I've tried to incorporate this into my layout, as you can clearly see! But like I said these are only a starting point, and like everything I do there is always room for improvements :)

And speaking of making changes, I have already started to make alterations to my 'final' collection that I got very excited about and posted last. In fact I think I started to make changes literally like 10 minutes after I posted it! Ahah. I've decided I want to play around a bit more with the colour combinations, working with colour isn't really my strongest point, so pushing myself to work with it this year was a bit of a challenge! But along with that I've just been making small changes, mainly in the details.

So other than that, I'm currently trying decide what to do with myself today, I want to work on my dissertation, however I don't think my poor overworked brain can handle big words and my complex subject matter.... in fact this has taken me over an hour to write! Whaaat! And even watching 90210 is proving difficult to concentrate on.....

Happy New Year

Hello 2014!

I hope everyone had a great start to the new year last week! And what better way to start the year blogging than with a post about GRADUATE COLLECTION!

I have finally just finished designing my FMP  - Hurrah - I will write a little, or a lot, more about it very shortly once I have all my moodboards and whatnots finalised, and then I'll do a post on the entire design process, what my inspiration and concepts were and all the mountains and molehills I've climbed to reach this point!

But for now, enjoy a teeny sneaky peek of what will become my 3rd year collection...

Warning: Subject to change

#alwayspickingfaults/wantingtomakeimprovements

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