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Final exam

So, I’m busy working on my final exam for this year, and I’m totally stressing out. Our appartment is a huge mess, we’ve had water leakage from the ceiling and it’s pure chaos.

Anyways, I’m working on a really exciting project. I want to create something beautiful from something grotesque. I’ve found all these discusting pictures online, and I’ve made them into beautifull patterns! I’m gonna get spoonflower to print them on jersey fabric for me and make some crazy dresses. Can’t wait!

My teacher has allowed me to go crazy with the shoe designs for the collection, so I’m really excited There’s going to be crazy dresses, crazy shoes and crazy patterns

Back to work!

Stressed out!

I’ve just totally forgotten this blog even exists!

These days I’m so busy working om my exams, I’m submitting my project in one month, We’re supposed to design an entire collection, sew up two of the looks and do lots and lots og reasearch. I’m gonna tell you all about it, but first I’m gonna give this pathetic blog a new look!

One new header coming up!

Inspiration

I think it’s so interesting to see where different people find inspiration, for both clothes and projects. The people in my class are so different in every way, and it’s so much fun to see what inspires them. Some get inspired by fashion magazines, some by music and some by artists. I find it on the runway (style.com), the streets of my city, blogs, forums ect. I especially find it in the form of shoes!

Great inspo: http://www.icanteachyouhowtodoit.com

I’m so lazy!

Viktor & Rolf pre-fall 2010, via style.com

Always, when ever I start on a new project for school I use forever before I actually begin to do anything.

I’ve picked my topic, I’ve chosen what I want to create, I’ve made a hundred sketches, I’ve bought the fabric.. So, why hasn’t there been any sewing done yet? I’m so lazy.

I know we have 5 more weeks to complete the garments, but I shouldn’t really waste my time like this! I think this is gonna be a fun project, we’re not only making the clothes and the presentation, but we’re supposed to create our own “brand”.

I really know what I want to call my brand og this collection.. It’s a collection on pants in mixed materials inspired by Viktor&Rolf and Acnes SS 2010 jeans. The fabrics are grey jeans mixed with patent/plastic-ish orange and green, mixed with suede. It sound’s crazy right? But it’s gonna be awesome!

I’ve decided to start sewing next week, if I dare I guess I can post some pictures, all tough that’s kind of scary!

Have a great friday night!

Bags of SS 2010

I’ve already posted my shoe-picks of SS 2010, so here’s my pick for the new handbags. I have to say, I was kinda disappointed with these as well! And, I LOVE the Givenchy pattern. I just love it, I think I’m obsessed with this seasons Givenchy collection.

Derek Lam

Givenchy

Givenchy

Givenchy

Gucci

Hermes

Miu Miu

Roberto Cavalli

Stella McCartney

Tory Burch

Versace

pictures frm style.com

Stressed!

I’m stuck at school all day, no time for updates! I guess it’s ok since no one really reads this blog yet anyways. Back to work!

Nicholas Kirkwood

I want to make shoes!

I think it’s such a bummer that I haven’t gotten a reply on the e-mail I sent to the school where I’m applying for an internship. My teacher said the next step is to give them a call, but I have such fear for telephones (funny, since I’m never without my beloved iphone).  My teacher is awesome, and so supportive, she’s a seamstress so she doesn’t really get my fascination for shoes, but she still supports me and wants me to get the internship!

I’ve been looking for schools in footwear design lately, abroad off course, as there are no such thing here. The options I’ve found are London College of Fashion and FIT in New York. I love  creating and designing clothes, but now I’m getting restless, and I want to make shoes!! Just one more year, then I’ll have my bachelor degree and can start applying for other schools. If I want to put myself in that much debt that is, tuition is crazy abroad..

Well well, too soon to start worrying I guess, back to the sewing machine I go!

Salvatore Ferragamo

Salvatore Ferragamo is still considered an”it” brand in the world of shoes, but many does not know the history that lies behind this  name. Salvatore was an Italian man, who from ca 1920 contributed to both Italian and world fashion.  In the 1950 the world started paying attention to the Italian shoe, as the quality was superb and the materials exclusive! Footwear magazines started writing about the art of the Italian footwear, and the Italian economy grew tremendously as a result.  

Salvatore Ferragamo was born in a small town in Italy, but when he was sixteen he immigrated to America. This was a smart move, as the American footwear industry was the most advanced at that time, and he quickly found a job at a shoe factory. He was impressed by the efficiency of the mass production, but NOT the final product. So, after a while he decided to go to Hollywood, and find a market for fine handmade Italian shoes. After he became a huge hit in Hollywood in the 1920s he decided it was time to go back to Italy, as he could not find experienced workers to make his shoes in America.  Here he joined the American efficiency with the Italian craftsmanship, and make shoe history!

After this he discovered new ways to strengthen the shoe, started making bigger variety of color, and started making shoes inspired by trends in architecture, visual arts and design!

Shoes are still the core of the brand Salvatore Ferragamo, here's a piece from the SS'10 collection

Salvatore Ferragamo was the man who invented the shoe as we know it today, did you know this?

 

Atalanta Weller

Have you seen some outrageous shoes in Vouge or I-D lately? Well, it’s most likely the works of Atalanta Weller, an up and coming shoe designer from Gloucestershire, England. She’s got a BA in shoe design from Cordwainers College, and before that she studied sculpture ;

“Shoes are like small sculptural buildings in their own right. I love womenswear, but have never considered doing it myself,”

I have the same opinion, I think a pair of shoes can be like small pieces of art for the foot. And, like her, I love the technical aspect of working with shoes. Before she started her own line she has worked with a few mainstream companies as well as the brilliant Gareth Pugh!

Her favourite shoe designers are Salvatore Ferregamo and Pierre Hardy, and she’s one of those people who can’t stop looking at other peoples shoes when they meet. I’m like that aswell, I kinda have a problem as I tend to judge people according to their shoes, so rude of me! I don’t think she’s so judgmental though, I’ve read a couple of interviews with her and she seem to be such an interesting person, and what she does looks like so much fun. Lucky girl!

yeah, it's actually a pair of shoes!

sources:

http://www.ponystep.com

http://www.highsnobette.com