Shoes shoes shoes,,,,,,

Break from clothes, I kinda make a left turn to the shoe's world. I saw these awesome shoes from Vogue mag. The article is called, "The Verdict's in: The Warm Weather Ankle Boot", which was published on Tuesday, April 27, 2010. From what I have observed, each shoes represent each respective designer's style; Balenciaga is distinguished by its bold color choice, Chloe with its earth tone color and Tommy Hilfiger with its Contemporary look.

Trend Shopping at Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Ave

Me and my friend, Anne, were using our spring break to go to Rodeo Drive to do some trend shopping. It was quite interesting to see designer's clothes, bags, shoes, and all the good stuff. When we were there, we saw two gorgeous models were trying on some clothes. Well, it's Rodeo Drive after all.




Back to the topic, from the trend shopping, I saw a lot of printed dress and nude color influence. Military influence was still going on. Tie-dye technique were seen on dresses too. I saw printed dress/ tie-dye technique by Alexander McQueen and Pucci. It brought fresh and feminine look.





I really love nude color and on this trip, I saw a dress from Valentino that was made from sheer fabric on the top and accompanied by silk blouse from Chloe; both were incredible. Last but not least, a pants from Chloe that brought military look.

Spring break is around the corner and yet school projects are also tailing along with it, so it means that there will be no actual "break" for me. Well I don't have much choice but to finish up the projects before the deadline..sigh..

I want to share a little bit about my fashion class project. This time we were asked to research about historical of fashion and I chose 1947's. It is about Dior's new look era which was all about fitted jacket with a nipped in waist and full calf length skirt. I am so excited about it because my line will be formal wear which I love to design. I am posting some pics about past trend of 1947's and current trend.

For the current trend, I am inspired by Elie Saab's collection. I extremely love with his designs and his choice of pastel colors. His designs brings sexy nude, feminine and elegant look.

My 1st Flat using Illustrator.

Within the last three days, last night was the first time I could sleep early and allow me to tell you why... It was because I had fashion class project very recently. The project was about sport influence research and I chose "baseball" as the subject. Aside from the research, I also need to prepare flats and all the stuff that is related... I chose digital as my method of presentation mainly because of my ongoing Adobe Illustrator class, although I am still considered very basic. At least I can try my new skills, right? Another reason??? Simply because I do not want to spend $25 for the portfolio hahaha...... there..... I said it loud! haha...

I have started the project since last Friday and finally finished it up on Sunday night. During the past three days, I have learned a lot about the illustrator and one of them was the "shortcut". It is something really simple but it really helps me a lot. I.e. if you press Control+I, the cursor automatically changed to Eye Drop, Control+P, it will be changed to Pen Tool and etc. It sure fasten things out.

So long story short, I was finishing up my project on Sunday night and getting ready for tomorrow presentation so here I go... I went to the class and while I was preparing all the stuff, suddenly my teacher gave me a comment that nearly made me crazy but one thing that I hate was, her comment was right. She said that the way I layered my designs could deliver unclear message to customers and also my color designs was too pale and so on and so on. On that time, my brain froze for a sec and the only word that came out from my mouth was, "Ok." When she was done, my brain started to think, "why why and why?.... after I put all my efforts to it but at the end the result was a negative." Well, the good thing was I could immediately changed what I needed to change and added what I needed to add. It took me almost half day to make it perfect.

One thing that I learned today was "not to be easily discouraged when people gave you a negative comment of your work or your creation" We should take it as a means for us to improve... more excellent in what we are doing. So finally, I presented my project at the end of the day and to be honest I was quite impressed by my own work... That I can finally create flats using illustrator :) so here it is...

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Inspiration

Vancouver Olympic was about ice, cold and gold. Even though it has already ended but I still want to show some pictures that I have found. It is also not coincidence that we are having school project that related to sports influence and maybe this pics can help some students that do ice skating or skiing to get some inspiration.




Every athlete in Vancouver Olympic aims to win a gold medal. Inspired by them, the gold dress is back. I posted picture of mini gold dress.

I also posted 2 design sketches by Ralph Lauren that I have found. In this world class event, Ralph Lauren Company has the honor to design the outfit for the Official Opening Ceremony and Closing Ceremony Parade Uniforms as well as a unique collection of village wear apparel and accessories.

The September Issue by R.J. Cutlery

Recently I watched The September Issue directed and produced by R.J. Cutler. The movie tells the story of the legendary Vogue editor in chief, Anna Wintour and her larger-than-life team of editors, creators of the issue that is basically ruling the world of fashion. It is amazing to know that would-famous, top-leading designers such as Oscar De La Renta and Jean-Paul Gaultier actually invited her to their head office in Italy just for to get her comment on their new designs. On top of that she was treated like a Queen. She is such a charismatic figure. I can actually feel the intensity and stress that her employees that they experience during their September issue of Vogue with her. I was even holding my breath every time they were having a meeting ... :0

I can see through this movie that fashion is an ever changing industry. We must keep up to date or we will be left behind. I really recommend this movie to anyone who is studying fashion or to anyone that is simply a fashion aficionado. Enjoy it ..................and...............CUT!