Where did time go?

I can't believe how quickly this term has gone with holidays coming up everyone is finally getting the chance to slowly unwind from the hectic workload we've had over the past few months. This term has honestly flown, Fedisa keeping me on my toes and concentrating on our graduate collections. Third year has been a big challenge so far having work up to my ears . A holiday is much needed! However I look forward to next term and finally creating my very own sophisticated and structured collection.

Inspirational garments that have inspired my collection.

2nd year ball gown design

This is my beautiful friend Jordyn Pollock, model for Trigger models. She is wearing my dress that I designed and created for my second year ball gown design. My dress was also entered into the Cavendish competition for the J&B Met earlier this year, January.

Front of the dress. Strips of nude chiffon were draped around the bodice. Each strip was beaded. The dress is see through from the thigh level down, a single layer of chiffon was used.

Back view of the dress, eyelits were used as the closing of the dress and tied together with separate strips of  the nude chiffon.

JOHN GALLIANO

JOHN GALLIANO SCANDAL

John Galliano, former Christian Dior fashion designer, is said to have apologised for his offensive remarks towards the jewish community. Galliano’s comments “ I love Hitler” where the words that highly offended jewish foke sitting behind him in a café in Paris. Galiano, the world-famous British designer continued to tell customers that they would have been dead and gassed back in the day of Hitlers ruling.

The Anti-Defamation League director, Danielle Kubes says she is looking forward to working with Galliano, helping him repair his damaged name after he took responsibility for his actions and publicly apologised for his insulting comments, “I know that I must face up to my own failures.”.

The European Jewish Press national director has said that he looks forward to help Galliano repair vocal damage and win the fight against prejudice, intolerance and discrimination.

After these statements were released, fashion house, Christian Dior headed by Bernard Arnault, one of France’s wealthiest men suspended Galliano, protecting this fashion house’s name and reputation after complaints were made by a couple claiming abusive remarks were made. John Galliano was Dior’s star designer. Dior announced that their decision was based on the release of the video of Galliano.

Galliano was suspended when the video surfaced just before his release of his new autumn-winter designs were brought out for his ready-to-wear collection for the upcoming Paris Fashion Week. Dior acted quickly, showing protecting the brand by proving to the public that this sort of behaviour is not tolerated with this fashion house. It is said that Galliano was under the influence of alcohol and is not the type of person for snotty remarks and that the whole situationwas most probably a big misunderstanding.

Natalie Portman, who advertises a Dior Perfume stated, “As an individual who is proud to be Jewish, I will not be associated with Mr Galliano in any way.’’ After this comment from Oscar-winning actress was released, Dior took initiative to suspend Galliano. Fellow friend, graduating with John Galliano from St Martin’s, elite fashion and art college said he had known Galliano for years and never knew he was anti-Semitic. Dior is one of my favourite fashion brands ever, what a pity for this to happen hopefully Dior will restore its world wide fashion label. 

Weekend activities

It's a perfect summers day in Cape Town, with not one cloud in the sky. There are a few exciting activities taking place this weekend, I will be visiting the Design Indaba exhibition shortly with a few friends. This expo is for young and upcoming designers who come together to broadcast their designs and creations. The Design Indaba is held at the Cape Town Convention Centre every year around February, this expo fully supports the South African way of "local is lekker". Creative professions such as fashion design, graphic design, visual art, architecture and many more occupations are highly supported throughout this exhibition. I'm very excited to see all the different designs, gain knowledge and inspiration for my upcoming collection.

Images taken from the Design Indaba website
http://www.designindaba.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/DI_640xY/galleries/33595-Elle-Decor-ISOv2.jpg
http://www.designindaba.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/DI_640xY/galleries/0%20expo%20SW%20(9).jpg
http://www.designindaba.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/DI_640xY/galleries/design%20indaba%20freerange.jpg

The beginning of the end...

I was really looking forward to starting off this year at Fedisa. Third year at fashion college has been quite an adjustment compared to last year, more leeway was granted for personal choices of fabrics for garments, our collection designs and free range artistic flare. Fedisa has a very broad range of talented students each with their own unique sense of design and styling. This year looks to be very promising with a large variety of designs and collection outcomes. Starting off with art and design in our first week of college was a little intimidating due to the new work load however at the same time it was all very exciting to begin with new concepts and initial collection ideas and designs.