More media coverage

No designer names actually appeared in this article but that was our show! There are my dresses again! And they actually used one of my dresses as the big picture in the article! Pretty exciting stuff!

For the article and more pictures, click here

Look who's on Flare.com!

I just came across this link on Toronto fashion stylist Kate O'Reilly's Facebook page, and it turns out that my 4th year collection along with the 24 other girls' featured in the curated show ended up on Flare.com! Pretty exciting to be on a website other than Facebook or my own blog!

Check out this link for more pictures!

Illustrations

So I know I've been pretty MIA for the past 6 months or so, but I just recently did a new set of illustrations for my collection as some minor details have changed since the last set were done, and I tried out a bit of a new style that I actually don't think turned out too bad so I thought I'd share them.

All done in marker and water-colour paints.

Outfit #1

Now that my collection designs are more or less finalized, muslins (AKA hell) have begun. In one week I turned this...

into this...

One down, four to go.

Decisions, decisions

As it turns out, narrowing down my designs from 30 to 5 to form a cohesive collection proved more difficult than I thought, but here is my tentative 5-piece collection!

I might still do some franken-designing with elements from other dresses that didn't get chosen but like I said, here's the tentative line-up

Final Collection

For my last year of school we have to design and produce a collection of our choice. I've decided to do women's couture eveningwear inspired by origami and different manipulations of fabric. So here are some of my potential designs, but it has to be narrowed down to 5... which do you like?

 

 

Ben & Jerry's new hilarious flavour

If you're a fan of SNL and/ or Alec Baldwin you probably remember his hilarious 1998 sketch "Schweddy Balls" (incase you've never seen it or would just like to relive some of the magic, see below for a small taste of balls) and now you can actually taste them for yourself! Ben & Jerry's has created a new, limited time "Schweddy Balls" ice-cream featuring chocolate malt balls and fudge-covered rum balls in a vanilla and rum-flavoured ice-cream that will be available in stores until the end of the year. Says the company (quoting the sketch), "You won't be able to resist our Schweddy Balls!" Frankly I'm surprised nobody has come up with this sooner, but I do think it's hilarious and amazing nonetheless. Maybe I'll get my hands on some Schweddy Balls.

"I love balls!"