We've come a long way, baby

I've been working on those prints with filters and half tones some more and I'm really happy with the progress. I especially like the first image, I think it freshens up the collection and would work well with swimwear. I'd like to turn the bottom one into some kind of laser print.

Racer One Piece = taking shape

After many pattern-making issues I have finally - almost settled on Look One (Racer One Piece).

Note to self- Cut outs suck.

How things change

Here's the beginnings of the two looks I'm currently making. The one at the bottom is the evolution of the draping I blogged about a few weeks ago- lucky, they have come a long way...

Still a long way to go.

Final Colours- finally

After much deliberation a final colour pallet has been locked in.

Print Continued...

I've been experimenting with half tone and some other filters on photoshop with the photos I took the other day... I still have some way to go but this is where I'm heading...

Print Beginnings

To start me off print-wise I decided to go back to where it all began with the idea of restriction/bondage/etc and muck around with photoshop and see what happens. Here are some photos I took today (the subject is to remain nameless) in the hopes of turning them into something interesting....

Studded Swimsuit

Norma Kamali Studded Swimsuit

Acessorise

I'm looking into developing or sourcing some watches for my collection, my search reminded me of these watches from an article I saw on Cool Hunter a while ago.

Scuba Girl

My collection has turned fairly sporty-swim so I thought I'd set the mood with some images from Italian Elle. See the editorial at Fashionising.com.

Made-up Dreams

I've been wasting time on LookBook again, but I found this:

LOOKBOOK.nu: "Made-up Dreams" by Elle Ribera

Sarah Blasko -The Presets Remix

Download for free at Triple J

More Colours...

We've all been dyeing madly in the print room lately, here are some colours I've dyed up to reflect my colour pallet- Seeing the colours as a fabric and not a swatch of paper makes defining the colours much easier as you can get a sense of what the colours really look like. Looking at what I've dyed up has given me direction to tweek my pallet slightly.

musings…Alter Ego Cont.

Following on from my earlier post about Beyonce and the way she uses her Alter Ego to express herself, I've been brainstorming how my customer will use Inhale/Exhale to express herself. I imagine my customer to be multi-layered, meaning she will be interested and enjoys lots of different things and she uses Inhale/Exhale, and my other work as a channel to express whatever mood she'd in. Inhale/Exhale will be a channel to express sexiness, activeness, edginess,etc.

Drape Ideas

Some initial drape ideas with the idea of layers and twists as well as restriction vs release. Obviously a long way to go...

Sound track to my collection ...

N*E*R*D - Don't Worry About It

This sums up the mood so far: sexy, confident and a bit playful

Almost final colour pallet

I've brightened up my colours and they are much more summery and fresh. I'd like to use the nudes (which looks a bit different on screen) and greys as a base with the other colours, mainly the peach and greens as splashes of colours throughout the collection.

Below are a few swatches I played with to experiment how I should balance the pallet.

I'm now going to dye fabrics to get a deeper sense of the colour so I can balance them on the body and play with proportion. The colours are still up for modification but this is the basic idea.

More Colours...

I found this article on colour at The Cool Hunter, its totally inspiring and worth a look.

Anna and Boy at Rosemount

Anna and Boy at Rosemount, I like the colours and the prints were really interesting and fresh.

These images and lots more from Marie Claire.

McQueen Tribute

I found this tribute to Alexander McQueen at Dazed Digital

'In memory of our friend and long-time collaborator Lee Alexander McQueen CBE, we present the highlights from over 13 years of creative projects that he worked on with Dazed & Confused. Taking on the roles of art director, guest editor, interviewer and interviewee, he left us with a collection of astoundingly innovative stories – and two striking covers – that span fashion, art and politics, and remain as thought-provoking today as they were when they were first published.'

Zimmerman at Rosemount

http://www.thevine.com.au/rafw/rafw-_-zimmerman.aspx

Interesting print combinations and silhouettes but nothing Zimmerman hasn't done before. None the less, very pretty and very Zimmerman. I especially like the first image and can see it, and the whole collection, selling very well, very wearable but still very fashion forward. I love.

Unlike Camilla, who's Avatar inspiration (literally) was almost a joke...