coming to a close

maybe it's about time i start blogging again!

i can't believe the last time i blogged was during the summer, WAY before i even knew what my collection was going to be about & WAY before i started designing and draping my ideas....

but here it is. it's april 11 & my senior collection deadline is about 2 weeks away. the fact that i have to be fully completed with my 6 look collection (mens & womenswear) & present to faculty and maybe an outside consultant........ *shudder* is a little less than hellishly frightening.

and with everyone applying for jobs or getting jobs is a huge slap of reality that graduation is upon us.. AHH...!!!!!! (freaking out here a LITTLE)

but here it is. & i better be done.

preview for lost boys fw12 (hint: emphasis on felting)

illustrations

not that i don't love fashion & fashion design... but i realllly love illustration & fashion illustration!
i had a lot more fun drawing the cover (not ready to show yet!) of my lost boys sketchbook than researching for the actual thing...... i've a lot of inspiration for it.. but i think illustration is something i more enjoy. seems less..... work-ey.
while doing that, on my breaks i've been doing this:

i don't know.... maybe because i know my impending death is on its way soon (no joke, my intructors are seriously going to eat me alive.. but first they're going to make me feel like shit..) but i realllly seem to be dragging my feet with this stuff..... WHICH i absolutely cannot afford to do! BAH.

bojagi [보자기] bicyclists

so i've finally decided on the 3rd inspiration point of which i will be (hopefully) sprouting many many fantastically unbelievably chic designs from......
bojagi bicyclista.
for those who are unfamilar (although i highly doubt i will be explaining myself to... the masses and masses that are reading my entries...... ) with the term "bojagi" or "보자기".. it is simply a large sq. cloth, like a scarf, that's used to wrap things in.. & by things i mean, clothes (namely hanboks), food, books, whatever you want. it's part of the traditional korean culture. they are constructed by geometric pieces of different colored fabrics to create a large mosaic beauty.
how i know & experienced it, is to cover food from getting cold or from the elements.

pretty isn't it?
& i absolutely love how there are wayyyy too many colors going on, but they all are in harmony. really similar the korean hanboks. so i think all the really fun colors will bring a youth and fun spirit to my bicycle-friendly collection.
so it's not necessarily bicycle-active-apparel. more like, clothes that double as  those you can easily wear while cycling around without any issues that one usually runs into (or rather, cycles into hehe.) while wearing normal clothes...

so i figure i can fuse the [geometric & patchwork-ness of the bojagi, along with other traditional korean clothing elements] with [the very american sports look]... designers are always finding ways to merge the 'east vs west' theme, so i guess this is mine.

oxford library

this is one of the sketches i did while i was abroad of the bodleian library in oxford.
[ drawn with a 0.5 mechanical pencil & a 2B & 6B drawing pencil ]
it's one of the architectural drawings that i like the most, and one of the ones that took me the longest (the french buildings took the extra longest!! perhaps i'll upload those too sometime.)
wish i could go back! oxford was one of those cute college towns, so i'd probably get sick of actually living there, but it was nice to visit.
perhaps i will one day, hopefully in the near future... now that i think about, i kind of regret not buying an oxford sweatshirt or something.

i want a mini-baby elephant.

something i could just sort of, carry around. :) i think i would love it.

[ girl sketched from vogue italia, a very old issue by the looks of it... ]

dream journal no. 1

my strange dream sequence, featuring bottega veneta resort '12.
i picked this dress due to the vivid orange color that is nice to find in a good oj :)

i found myself in the kitchen frosting a cake i had just baked. Though looking down at the jar held by my hands, it was not a jar of frosting. It was, instead, a jar of JIF peanut butter. So I was making a cake with peanut butter smeared on it. The cake was not even half covered, when the jar became completely empty.
So my hunt began in finding more peanut butter. Then i forget about the peanut butter quest, which is suddenly transformed to a search for orange juice. Frantically i begin to rummage through the strangest places and find orange juice cartons; in the cabinets, under the sink, etc. But to my dismay all the cartons i find are empty or close to it, with only a drop or two left.
i become more and more anxious.
soon the house is littered with phantom cartons once holding orange juice.

i wake up, the most stressed i've ever felt from a dream.
what on earth do you suppose that to mean?

reminisce?

as the fall term for my final year approaches (getting a little  very much anxious!), i'm forced to remember that i won't be a student for very long, and that i'll be unceremoniously thrust into the real world (hoo ha.). 

ideally i would love to be doing fashion illustration, although i really enjoy designing, it just seems a bit easier to draw what's already been produced... or another topper on my list would be working for a trend forecasting site! 

but i realize once you start working for someone, the creative liberties, kind of, fly out of the window. 

one of my instructors mentioned that we should be as creative as we can while in uni, because this is kind of the last hurrah unless you launch your own line (which i am unwilling to do--- too much responsibility for me as of right now!!)

i was rummaging around for some extra bristol paper, when i came across the first assignment of the past year, which was a submission to the cfda student competition. although i didn't qualify (my packaging section of the assignment was incomplete, so was unable to be submitted), i felt satisfied with the work i was able to achieve. 

as i remember it was pretty stressful, due to so many ongoing projects and some other issues, but the fact i was able to complete the work, makes me feel pretty proud of the result.

(the scanning process washed out a few of the more subtle colors, which is a shame..... but it's just the mood board w fabrics & the lineup) the individual figures showcase the clothes much better, but i don't think anyone wants to see, like a million uploads, so this'll have to do. unless someone does want to see them, i'll happily upload them.