Summer is officially here thanks to 'ASOS.COM' ♥♥

Asos.com have now brought out their online summer edition magazine featuring collaborations of floral summer prints taken from the 1960's, bright block colours to show off that amazing beach figure we always wanted and them quirkey but cute accessories we have always got to have flaunting that vintage,rock and gypsy look there is currently seen in trends in the big high street stores.This summer it really doesn't matter whether your off  rocking it out at a festival or partying amongst the beach or whether you're like me currently at home, you can still wear these great new lines of fashion and collaborate it with your own unique style.Here are a few bits I shall be collecting for Summer ♥♥

http://www.asos.com/Women/Magazine/Womens-Magazine-Asos/Cat/pgehtml.aspx?cid=6200&WT.ac=062011_UK_Homepage_ASOSMagText

 

Olive/Rosie the owl cushion I made yesterday

It was quite easy, my inspiration came from a previous owl I bought a few years ago and Kayleigh Gregory my friend as she makes her own cushions aswell,they are faboulous!xx

Recent: My final major project showing heritage through the dress I created

I have used french knots to embroid around the arm and neck hemline, all prints I have created are my own showing photographs and letters of my heritage and my own rose pattern, the dress shown was from a 'vogue' 1950's template, in the background you can see my design maquettes x 

My Statement

I'm currently a second year Art and Design student at the Wigan School for the arts,specialising in textiles. My experience as an Art and Design student has allowed me to develop and express a personal and unique creative view of life, taking this into my practical work, and exploring all creative processes. I love to express myself within my work through the range of media exploration in colour, shape which creates compositions and patterns and ranges of different texture, materials and different applique stitching techniques as you may gather with the images I have posted onto this blog. I also have my own personal blog attached on this account, this can be found at: http://textilefashionister.blogspot.com/ .

Additionally, within my spare time I like to visit art exhibitions contemporary, historical and locally, looking for inspiration around me to prepare myself for the next set of work in which I will then produce, I enjoy getting involved in volunteer projects, such as 'Orange Rockcorps'.I have worked as a sales assistant at Topshop for over a year and still enjoy working there within a team and also being in an environment, where I see the latest fashion trends on a day to day basis. 

Furthermore, the reason I have chosen the course is because I wish to develop the skills I already have as an art and design student and to learn new skills and techniques in a specialist area where I will enjoy researching both historical and contemporary fashion and textile designers, I am looking forward to new, challenging experiences at university, and would relish the opportunity to take my current studies further. My ambition, after graduation, is to learn through working in teams and with different people, by hopefully becoming a designer within the fashion industry.

Observational study work for colour theory and observational drawing.




I have visually observed and studied clothing hung up on a washing line, this allowed me to use a range of skills from obsertvational drawing, mixing correct colours, controlling my media, and to gain further understanding of colour theory through the use of complementary colour schemes.