Fashion Forecasting - Tickets Please!

For my Fashion Forecasting project I had to produce a source-book, showing a fashion forecast for 3 different collections for the brand Topman/Topshop which were: Woman's sleepwear, woman's festive wear and men's casual day-wear. From these 3 collections one main collection had to be chosen and presented.

The collection I choose was men's casual day wear, which I renamed 'Urban Traveler' as the theme for the collection was 'Metro'. When it came to making the source-book and presenting my work on display boards, I wanted to continue with the theme 'Metro' for a strong link between my presentation boards and my source-book.

Some images of the project is below. all work shown is my own.

Thanks for reading, and expect more blogs on the way including my introduction to 'Street Styling'.

First Fashion show: Featuring my lily cocktail dress

A charity fashion show held by 'Secret Wardrobe' featured my lily cocktail dress, fellow HND fashion students dresses and some collections from secret wardrobe. It was a fantastic night that I will learn and develop from.

Some of the students in the class (me, center)

We had to two runs on the catwalk, The first being a natural theme and the second run being more 'rock/grunge' theme.

'Rock/grunge' theme

The natural theme

Advice when purchasing a suit in 2011

Buying a new suit can be a hassle, but it does not have to be!

Colours 


When it comes to buying a new suit either for work,weddings,casual then different styles of grey is the one to buy. It has proven most popular in runways and has completely put the past popular 'navy' in the shade.

Buttons

Three buttoned suits are completely out and if possible try to avoid. One or two buttons would be best.

Vents

The type of vent to go for in a jacket would be a double vent. Although single vent and no vent is not 'out', it's not considered to be 'in' either, so personal choice really.

When trying on a suit

Trousers:  Make sure the trouser leg sits just at the tip of your heel and not over it.

Jacket:     Make sure the sleeves reach the start of your thumb when your arms are down and relaxed.

TIP 

For an excellent suit with matching top-rate service I would recommend shopping at 'Slaters'. They make buying a suit a breeze, and that should be their catch-phrase. With the best customer service on the high street, top quality suits and free alterations for the life of your suit, you can't go wrong!
http://www.slaters.co.uk/en/

Lily cocktail dress finished!

My Lily cocktail dress is now complete and so is my first year at
College its been hard work but been fun.

Here is the finished dress that caused so much stress, modelled by my lovely friend Sarah.

College work: lily cocktail dress

Hi, as most of you's know I have been studying fashion and a project we had to do was to make a cocktail dress. I have now completed the dress and the lily I am using to make the dress more dramatic.

Pics below and tomorrow I will post the finished garment.

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My College Work

My first year doing Fashion is nearly over. Boy, I have learnt so much and I am only going to be learning lots more.

Below are some of my own designs I have made from sketches, source-book pictures and promotional boards that I have been working on for my fashion commercial design class. In this class we had to carry out research on a brand ( I decided upon H&M) and present a new collection inspired from a selected theme, my theme being 'Vibration'. I had to show what I interpreted from the theme by using a mood-board, source book then to actually get down to drawing our designs down on paper and bring this all together to present this to a mock panel. Glad to say I passed!

p.s follow or look out for my next blog, where I show the Final look of my dress I have made!

ASOS...It makes you happy!

Hey guys just letting you know it's currently 30% OFF all jeans at ASOS right now!

All brands such as diesel and Voi Wright are included!

This is your best opportunity to get your hands on the summer jeans you need. Also take a very worthwhile look at their edit range.

Have fun shopping Oscar x

New Poster!

ASDA - George

For my Graded Unit at college I had to carry out some research on George at ASDA. I filmed my visit when I was there,you can watch below.

Want to know how it went?.. comment below to ask.

filmed by my friend Ryan Dunlop