A New Chapter - Wacky Races

The Wacky Art & Design Students!

As I said in my previous post, I've started University & it's a new chapter in my life. We got given a mini group project, nothing serious, something to break the ice. The project was based on the cartoon series 'wacky races'. In each group of 5-6 people we had to come up with some wacky designs/themes of racing carts that we were then going to create & put together out of random stuff we found around Central London, the uni or buy at shops...Each group had a starting point somewhere around London (not toooo far from the uni) and had to race back to the uni completing about 5 different tasks e.g record your team asking a member of the public what they like about London & why. My teams theme was a princess bed, and we wore PJs...here are the pics below....

Our Starting Point, Piccadilly Circus

We got Tourist attraction

Some more tourist attraction

With a busker in the London Underground

It was such a funny & surreal experience....I wonder what other projects my course has in store for us! Would you be brave enough to do something like this????...

My Art & Design Exhibition

I've finally got time to be posting regularly; now time for a quick catch up. I said I would post pictures from my Foundation course Art & Design Exhibition so here they are: These images are of my fashion design and graphic design work, my theme was Colour Spectrum.

These illustrations & books took ages to create and put together, can you guess who the celebrity faces are near the top? Below are pictures I took of work from other students on my course:

Robotic Dresses and Sunshine!

 Easter holiday is over, it ended too quick but it was good while it lasted. So far UK weather (this year) has been awful, but this week has been amazing, sun shining , clear sky, not too hot; now that's what I'm talking about. Today after college I went to the Design Museum to view fashion designer Hussein Chalayan’s exhibition. In case you are not familiar with his designs - he is renowned for his innovative use of materials, and implementing new technology into his designs. Think robotic/transformer dresses (HA!). Personally I think his technologic clothing is amazing. Take a look at it in action yourself (video below).

I also took a nice walk down London Bridge, in which I saw former model making a new 's advert; was really random!

Hello and welcome to my new readers!

This is my excited face...

Whaoo soo excited got my results last night from my first choice university and they gave me an offer! Whoop Whoop What it do! I was literally praying for this...Thank you Jesus!

Feb Updates // London Fashion Week 09

A friend and I went to London Fashion Week, several weeks ago. We saw the Romeo Pires Autumn/Winter 2009 collection. The duo's show was very different; different in a good way. Their concept was captivating as the outfits in the collection played with the notion of how we wear our clothes; they were reversed. Each model carefully walked down the catwalk with their boots that had the heel and toe reversed and most of their hair covering their face (video below). You can imagine the spectators, including myself, at the edge of our seats anticipating the fall of a model, in which a handful almost did but gained their balance.

Lastly I have been preparing for university interviews that are coming up. Ahhh, I'm excited but nervous at the same time. My first choice is LCC which is part of University of the Arts London.

Where's Wally (Obama)?!

Random Illustration; visually impacting!

Paper Planes...How about Paper Clothing

Who would of thought boring ol' paper could make pretty neat skirts! So my week has been pretty hectic with many many deadlines at college. How has yours been? I haven't had proper sleep in days!I finished making this paper skirt in my Fashion class today; I'm really pleased with it. It echos themes from the 50's; circle skirts and petticoats. It was my first time working with netting, and I love it, you can never have too much of it...it's also given me ideas for personal projects! It's the weekend; what are you lovelies getting up to?

And the blogging begins...

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....And the blogging begins! Went college today; only had Fashion class but have a load of coursework to get through before our first assessment, which is in less than 3 weeks, eeeek - so glad its Friday! Anyway....you've all heard of Katy Perry right? You know the chick who sung that controversial song...well if you haven't already noticed, her outfits and costumes are so awesome!!!


From a fashion and general design student perspective, I find her outfits very intriguing & inspiring. Most of her inspiration comes from the fashion era of the 40's, 50's pinup & she also works with great stylist, Johnny Wujek. I managed to find the person who makes some of Katy's outfits and signature frolic Rompers you normally find her sporting; check out the designers website http://www.juliemollo.com/ .



This costume designed by Manish Arora was recently worn by Katy Perry when she was hosting the 2008 EMAs. Another thing I like about Katy Perry's tantalising and unique wardrobe is that it's playful and bright; out of most peoples comfort zones. They have inspired me in some design ideas.

Until next time, I'm out!