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!"

Oh... so THAT'S what she looks like...

I have often said that since Lady Gaga is often so dressed up and so made up and always seems to have a different look every time you see her I was actually unsure as to what she actually looked like. But I shall wonder no more as Lady Gaga appeared on this month's cover of Harper's Bazaar (as well as a photoshoot in the magazine) completely and totally 100% au naturale! It may just be her most shocking look yet.

"Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside."- Lady Gaga (excerpt from the article)

Read more: Lady Gaga Interview - Quotes and Photos of Lady Gaga - Harper's BAZAAR