12.25.2011

12.15.2011

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Mucha
Lily Cole, Tim Walker, i-D 2005 

Nice movvvves.


12.06.2011



12.02.2011

Hey girl.


lollllllll!!!!!

11.16.2011


10.09.2011

9.26.2011

new york fashion week.





some of my favs. 

unbeweavable.





7.28.2011

Lea Tisci.




I don't know about you, but I love that Lea T. Not only is she part of Riccardo's clan, but I saw her on Oprah and she was so lovely.

mugler moment.






House of Style.



***1:23 Linda is the real deal!!



7.11.2011

Look 3




 Just dyeing the chifffffffooooonnnnnnn. 


Latex!! 

3rd latex fitting at school.

Initial draping.

Piecing the bodice together. 

 Attaching the lining. 





btw I made the hat too.



Look 2


Look 2 (on the far left) started out looking like that..


But ended up looking more like this.

Sourcing the lace was pretty fun; I must have gone through 100+ swatches in order to find this magical lace. Although I loved the copper color, but I had to go with silver so I could dye it along with the chiffons..

My friend Maureen helped me dye the fabrics in her cute lil' studio off Fulton Market. 


Then I began appliqueing the lace bodice together. It's a cool process of laying the seam allowances on top of each other, but stitching along the motif in an irregular pattern. It makes you a little dizzy after awhile because it's like lace Escher style.






 Final fitting at school. Btw, I hand sewed all of the hems - baby seams!

Front, side, back (omitted) at the shoot. 


Growing Works. 
(the red headed lady seated on the right is my professor, Beata. She's amazing.)

Final image.