Trend Report on London Fashion Weekend

As you will have seen from my previous blogpost, last week I went to London Fashion Weekend and I saw two shows. One was Amanda Wakeley (next blogpost) and the other was a trend show put on by the OUTNET.com. The show was made up of four main trends that the OUTNET.com think will be popular for AW14.

TREND 1: ONE AND ONLY

This is trend all about choosing one colour and basing your whole outfit on it! This can be in the form of shoes, accessories or different shades of the same colour. The look is from head to toe and because it is quite a minimal trend I saw a lot of different textures on the catwalk, from faur fur to lace, anything to make this minimal trend anything from boring!

TREND 2: CANDY CRUSH

Normally a trend for spring and summer but it has now transferred over to autumn and winter! Think light shades, think sweets from an old sweet shop, think baby versions of every colour. From baby pinks to blue to purples! The pastels should be fairly tailored but loose at the same time. Think casual workwear with an edge and a grown-up look to it. I have already seen a lot of muted pinks around the shops recently so I think this will be quite a hot trend until even next spring/summer.

TREND 3: JUNGLE FEVER

This trend is bright but classic safari colours. With leather and prints and as Angela Scanlon said about it before the show '...go for anything that looks like it's real enough to crawl off your back'. This trend ranges from loud prints to muted jungle colours of beige, brown and black. Earthly tones mixed with leather will be the perfect thing to wear this season, mixing the almost boring with edge.

TREND 4: FAIRY TALE ENDING

Who is the fairest of them all? The Fairy Tale Ending trend of course! This was a real wow trend to finish off the catwalk show. It featured large ballgowns, flowing frocks and A LOT of embellishment. Most dresses very feminine and floaty but some darker pieces added for more of an evil villain type look. 

A lot of chiffon type of material was used, ranging in all colours, from the very bright attention seeking ones to the muted colours fit for a princess! Put on your tiara and join in on this trend and it's perfect for Christmas time!

The show was incredible and left me really inspired to see what I can do with this season's upcoming trends in my own wardrobe! What trend is your favourite?

Liss x

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Fashion Show

From reading previous posts from June you may know that on my birthday I took part in a college fashion show. It was a massive stress and backstage was full of people panicking but in the end it was one of the best evenings ever.

We spent all day setting up the catwalk, background and chairs. We had several run throughs of everyone's outfits and with this came stress and a few disasters but it was all solved and turned out so well in the actual show. After run throughs we had a few hours for hair and makeup and it was safe to say everyone looked incredible. 

Then came the show and we were all nervous as this is something us but mainly the second year students had been planning for months and it all came down to this moment. The show was amazing, the atmosphere, the lights, everything was spot on. Adrenaline kicked in and we all just had to go for it.

The photos aren't the best as we haven't had the official ones back yet but when and if I get hold of them, I will definitely post them.

Modelling a friend's top

60s shift dress we had made in our first ever project.

Here are photos of a segment called Sculpted. On the left is my friend Lissy wearing a dress I made and on the right is me modelling a friend's dress and accessories.

These two photos are of a second years festival inspired designs that we wore. (Me on the left)

It was such a fun experience and I cannot wait until it's me modelling my final collection next year!

Liss x

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A Lookbook Throwback

A little while ago I did a styling project in college. This meant choosing a client, creating questionnaires, doing research, taking the client shopping and of course, making lookbooks. 

Here are two examples of the lookbooks I created in a short space of time that connected well with my client, her personality and style:

Model: Lissy Kelsey

Camera: Nikon D70

Photographer: Myself

Just a short post to show some of what I do at college.

Liss x

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May Day Fashion Event (follow on post)

All photography by James Sutton and Chris of Chriswrcox photography

So I know May day was just over a month ago now but I've only just had time to blog  about it!

Following on from my last blog post ( http://whatlissloves.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/vintage-garments.html ) I took part in a May Day challenge where us fashion students were split into two teams, given a shop each for the day (vintage charity or charity) and had to put on events to raise the most money for Helen & Douglas House Hospice. We had about 4 weeks to plan and as a team we were given the charity shop. From there we organised for dancers to arrive and perform a 90s dance routine outside the shop to attract customers in. This is where the styling from my last post comes in. We each styled a dancer in the vintage clothes we had been given by Helen & Douglas House. They performed the dances and they were a great success as they attracted many people to the shop who were wondering what this flash mob was all about.

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