my second time working in the fashion industry

illustrious, i told you.

my fashion life eh.

okay so i ended working for ziad,, something about him sending me home because he said i looked unwell… i went home, well sort of, i went to my friends house, i went to my friends house and we went out, i text ziad some general conversation, he asked why i was out if i was sent home unwell, i explained he sent me home i didn't want to go home, he asked me not to come back.

he apologised the next day and the earth kept revolving.

second shot, i Facebook message a designer by the name of stefan orschel read.

a menswear designer, he replies asks me to come meet him. 

i go out the night before this meeting with my friends from london, not friends anymore, as i said, i gave up becomes a constant thing.

well i go out, i party, i dance, i knock over some irate englishmens drink and pretend to be foreign so i didn't have to buy him another drink, i dance some more, i end up on a night bus, i tell a girl i love her shoes, she tells me she has to get off the bus soon as she lives in an amazing place, that place is where i am going the next day, strange she lived with the designer!

well the next day came i show the designer my fashion moves, i get the job, i work i play and i was lent the leigh bowery dvd from the stefan, i sew'd some jackets, i tailored some trousers, i styled some photoshoots, i done some lunch runs, its all fabulous.

i have a good few months with stefan, work play work play.

i break up with my then partner, i stop working for stefan because my heart was broken, or something along those lines.

the world still kept revolving!

my third time in the fashion industry

third time lucky right?

this time I'm at university studying my first year of university, pretending to know everything, wearing black, dressed like some gothic elf, as you do in your first year of university. who was i!

i have friends you see, well i have acquaintances in places. 

hoes in different area codes as ludacris put it once.

i begin working as a designer at boy london. every saturday and sometimes during the week.

i go into the basement of sick on red church street off brick lane, near shoreditch, next to some graffiti of the illuminati and a triangle etched into the bus stop with a  man with a moustache and a beard with his jeans rolled up and a tattoo on his neck. get my drift. it was east london whoop whoop!

i begin working for boy london, with stephane raynor working the till and me and two german girls working downstairs making outfits out of boy printed jersey, selling them in sick.

working on rihannas' jonathan ross ensemble, and nick minaj's boy barbie dress.

i stayed there for a couple of months it was fun, i got to dress up and meet some really interesting people.

it eventually grew thin, sewing for someone else's brand.

i remember taking remnants of material, sewing bandanas and shorts and vests out of the remnants selling them on ebay, getting money, i think that might of been illegal, but i guess it was only going in the bin anyway±

i sewed some more and eventually gave up.

the world was turning quicker, something was coming my way.

competition

i have chosen the seat by mango competition.
a competition to design an accessory for cars, i chose this so i could expand on my knowledge of fashion design, delve a bit deeper into this world, as fashion design ultimately is about selling perfumes and scarves right? haha
i chose this to challenge myself or to break away from my final collection.
i have recently been training myself in crystal healing.

with an emphasis on amethyst as a strong crystal in the "radio waves are bad for you kind of sense"
- amethyst helps breakdown negative energy and focus your mind and soul on positivity.
its a stone that brings health and security.
i decided to imply the notion of amethyst in a print design.
after all the number of people injured on the roads in the uk in 2012 was 195,723
so i thought id add a bit of spiritual safety to each seat!

here is the mood board, showing examples of crystals 

here are the final designs as we only had a select pantone colours to choose from i obviously chose black and white, it wouldn't be 'SLATE' unless it was monotone.

here are the final designs, showcasing a monotone palette and a graphic crystal print.

emulating the city scape, just as the brief ordered, design for the city for an urban woman.  

i missed the deadline, something i need to work on, my timing!

 which you will find more about as i post more to this blog!