Approaching the End

Just a quick blog post. Today me and my housemate are just adding the finishing touches to our uni work that is going to be handed in on Monday- coffee, no sleep, wine and carbs are the only things that are getting me through this at the moment. Can’t wait to get back to the gym! Here are the photos we took in our hideous cellar for my final two outfits for this module. Hope you like them.

Photography www.rosieashley.com
Charlotte x

D-day

First of all I would like to apologise for not blogging recently- I have been really ill over the Christmas break (yes, poor me) and I had so much work to do as I have a few deadlines this week. So anyway, I’m on the mend now and that's enough moaning from me…oh and Happy New year may I add!

So today at University I handed in the first part of my project which was all about research and development before the designing stage. Surprisingly today I was quite calm as normally I’m a nervous wreck with bad hair and puffy eyes as I haven't slept properly the night before from worrying.

Here are a few snaps of some of the sketchbook work I have handed in today…

Gareth Pugh-Designer report board and sketchbook notes

Trend Board and Customer Profile Board

Key inspirational images and colour board

Some of my Street style pages

Yorkshire Sculpture park Sketchbook work

These are a few photos from my personal sketchbook with photos I have taken with some doodles!

Next deadline is on Friday so I shall post my Fashion technical workshop work up when I have finally worked through the mountain of work I may just drown in. Wish me Luck!

Charlotte x

Gothic Lipstick

Gareth Pugh is one of my favourite designers of all time! I love how gothic and sinister his clothing is, so I literally peed my panties when I heard that he was doing a collaboration with the make-up brand M.A.C. I just knew when I heard about the range it would be absolutely fabulous- he has toyed around with lightness vs. darkness, and black vs. white. Go to your local M.A.C store and check it out. I got even more excited when my friend posted this video created by fashion film director Ruth Hogben where she has unveiled Pugh’s first make-up range… take a peak, its quite creepy!

After watching this genius video I decided to do a post on gothic-glamour inspired lipsticks. I chose three colours; dark brown, dark purple and dark red. I want to show that you don’t have to wear black lipstick and cake on the white powder to add a little gothic glam to your look- lets not be too literal. However I did make a poor effort on my eye make-up (ooopps sorry), would get more of an effect with black Smokey eyes and thick fake eyelashes- to be fair I’m babysitting tonight so don’t want to go all gothic and scare the kids!

This lipstick was Revlon- Choco-Luscious

This one was Rimmel London- Kate Moss range- 04

The third lipstick was M.A.C- M.A.C RED (sorry had to get cheeky pout in there, couldn’t help myself!)

Go wild with it,

Charlotte x

Trend, Colour, Research and Mr Gareth Pugh

At university I’m in the process of researching and creating a customer profile for a designer/shop. Then I produce a mini collection that could be sold by the designer or for the shop I have chosen. Personally I didn’t want to look at the obvious of choosing Top Shop or any other high street brand. I want to work within high end fashion eventually so why study River Island when I can look at a really different and individual brand/designer. I chose the designer Gareth Pugh- women’s wear to study. After all he is one of my favourite designers- this makes it all so much easier to work with.
Firstly I made a board up of places I have currently visited and picked out key inspirational images to work from:

After producing this board, I took two key images that I wanted to take my colour palette from and created a colour board…

I love the idea of working with metallic, neutral and cool grey colours. We also had to choose a trend for Autumn/Winter 2012 to study from…

Taking the trend of Gothic Glamour- leathers, laces, statement steel like jewellery, chiffon and rubber. Combining this with my colour board and key inspirational images- I need to produce my mini “Gareth Pugh” collection.
This weekend I decided to go out and explore the world of Gareth Pugh’s clothing… well this is very hard as he actually doesn’t have a store anywhere in England! Therefore I took a quick trip to London with the boyfriend. He helped me have a peep into some of the very few shops that sell the wonderful pieces made by the genius himself- Gareth.
First stop 127.Brick Lane:


Although this was the only section on the rail that was in the shop, as a lot of the stock was sold out, the lady who worked there was so helpful. She even let me take photographs!
Take a look at the tight fitting, flowing fabric and futuristic designs:

I was hoping to purchase a ring from the collection but they had sold out everywhere as its so popular- I’m not surprised to be honest the ring is very unusual and it’s only £62!

Above is the ring I can’t stop obsessing about.

Next stop Layers London:

Inside was the collaboration of Gareth Pugh and Melissa collection which consisted of scented shoes! I felt a bit odd putting a shoe towards my nose in public and giving it a big old sniff! Sadly I was unable to take photos inside the store… however the cheeky girl I am, I stood in front of the massive shop window and zoooooooooomed in on my camera on some of the clothes- yes the shop assistant was staring at me-awkward but I do have university work to complete! Give me a break!

The cheeky snaps I took:

 

I then headed down to Dover Street Market as I knew they sold Pugh’s designs, but after the long walk and getting lost trying to find the place it came to my attention that they only sold a pair of leather trousers and a jacket!!! Disappointing or what?

After the small disappointment I decided to call it a day and explore London with my boyfriend. He was happy to so he could have fun and not have to be dragged about- and dodge the shop assistant whilst I take sneaky photos of clothes!

We found this cute lit up Christmas tree near Dover Street Market and instantly my mood was lifted! CHRISTMAS IS COMING!

Charlotte xxxx