Spring/Summer here we come!

SS12 that is!


Trends for SS12 in lingerie have already got me excited!!! So here are the best ones!




Garden of Eden
This has to be my favourite trend!! Paradisaical prints and colours brimming over with botanicals, what could be better?! The prints and colour trends for this season are set to be spectacular with intricate and bold florals combining with soft tropical shades to give the perfect English GardenSS.

Wildflower Wonderland!

 

Enter Paradise

Cute as can be!

Lady Astray 
This is a trend to set your heart racing! To the untrained eye it may not sound much at first, but combine it with Garden of Eden and WOW!!! Mismatched prints, vibrant colour contrasts, layering and draping, underwear as outerwear and we have a Lady led astray. Buy anything you like, in any colour you like and wear it with whatever else you like and this season you won't be judged! The madder, the better this spring/summer. 
Of course, if you want to look your best there are still several style mantras you can follow to avoid stepping the line from 'astray' to off the rails.

Ellen von Unwerth shoots Kylie, two Ladies Astray!

Ellen does it again!

Uptown Girl, the perfect Lady Astray; a bedroom cluttered with beautiful things of and a pig!

Controlwear
A division of lingerie once kept hidden away has been growing hugely in popularity over recent years. Drawn from obscurity and shame by Bridget Jones and now an ever present part of almost every woman's wardrobe we just can't get enough of controlwear! And constant new innovations in fabric technology are leading to better and better results as well as more style.

Good old Bridget!

So they CAN be sexy!

Doesn't get better than this!

 So there we have it! Better get ready ladies it's only a year away!!!

Firm Foundations...

So to get into University I'm doing an Art Foundation Heading  


This was probably the last thing I wanted to do, but these day's it's pretty much a must have for your UCAS. I'm halfway through, just about to start my FMP (Final Major Project) and so what have I learnt so far??

• Fine Art Print Making
• Silk Screen Printing
• Graphic Design
• Photography
• Sculpture
• Painting and Drawing
• History of Art

This is all the stuff you learn on the Exploratory Stage and if you want my advice? 
IT IS NOT ENOUGH!!!
This is allll you will have in your portfolio for univeristy at the point you apply and so if you haven't worked outside of college it will sooo not be enough. Oh and forget that project you did at A-Levels that you were so proud of, because quite simply 99 times out of 100 it won't be good enough compared to the standard you're working at now.

Scared? 


You totally should be!


Next time, what universities really want...

A little bit from before...

The blog is currently looking a little bare, so please welcome:



KRISS SOONIK'S SS11 SHOW


This is an article on Kriss Soonik's SS11 Show, with some lovely photographs of the night, that I was lucky enough to attend and review a few months ago.


To purchase this marvellous loungerie visit: www.kriss-soonik.com

Usually, I hate typos, I’m one of those sad sticklers for spelling and grammar, so I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that the most innovative and desirable concept in lingerie at the moment was born from one. If you haven’t guessed already, I’m talking about Kriss Soonik’s ‘Loungerie’ described as a lingerie/loungewear crossover that adds up to outerwear, it is by far the best ‘spelling mistake that stuck’ yet. So when I heard that Kriss was hosting a fashion show for the launch of her new SS11 collection, I simply HAD to get an invite. Luckily enough for me, I did and here’s what happened.

We rolled up to McQueen’s award-wining bar in London’s trendy Old Street (think City Boys living it with their toes dipped just a smidge in grunge) a little too early to be fashionable but anyway, what’s so cool about being late? And just in time to nab a good perch on the back of some over-stuffed leather sofas. At first glance, the bar didn’t impress; exposed brickwork and black crystal chandeliers haven’t been the trademark of chic since the 90s, but there were several interesting features including an orgy of black lacquered mannequins tangling across one wall and a couple of Moulin Rogue stage swings swaying above the runway. Fidgety for the show to begin (reclining across a sofa may seem elegant from the outside, but is in fact far from comfortable) I was glad when a couple of models, one wearing a stag’s head mask, made good use of the swings. Oh, but where was the fashion?

After being thoroughly warmed up by a classically trained ballerina performing feats of flexibility on a dancer’s pole, we were weak with excitement for the runway. This season Kriss has slapped aside the sorbet palette colour trend and boosted the key pinks and oranges right up into neon. This is a welcome relief from the wishy-washy collections we’ve been seeing lately, although, as a large American gentleman behind me remarked ‘who cares what they’re wearing; these girls are HOT!’ but not as hot as that orange! I was pleased to see that Kriss’s style has refined itself over the past two years. Whilst still retaining that bond-girl/manga drama this seasons cuts were much more sophisticated and wearable, featuring asymmetric neck-lines and puffball silhouettes. A classic Soonik feature, the oversized bow, was still very much there, only accented in an alluring gold tone this time. It’s great to see ultra-feminine silks and laces manipulated into modern urban designs, and don’t worry ladies if you love the collection but aren’t quite ready for that powerful colour-way; most items are also available in reserved black or delicate white.

Slipping from the sounds and lights of a show into the eerie quiet of backstage is always disconcerting but was even more so this time as my first sight was the designer herself, sunk deep into the wall and wearing a cloud of shining tears. I was struck by a desperate compulsion to photograph her and capture the moment of ultimate release that comes from months of hard work transforming into success, but managed to restrain myself. I had just decided to crush her into a hug when the crowds swept in and the moment was lost. 

In person, Kriss is effortlessly candid and conversational, from informing us that her heroine is her mother: ‘she still freaks me out with her stuff sometimes!’ to ‘orange is also the colour of my boyfriend’s motorbike, you know’. It’s easy to see how this cheerful and quirky collection is simply a reflection of the designer’s personality. But I’m still keen to learn more about the inspiration behind the fabulous colour-palette. Orange is definitely the word for this collection, as Kriss explains with a wide smile, it is representative of the ‘sophisticated aggression’ hidden within women waiting to be released. It’s interesting to hear these fierce words come from the mouth of a delicate blonde dressed in a modest gold-tone button-down dress and to see the spark in her eyes flare and recede. But to break into the small, almost incestuous lingerie industry in this country you have to be diamond hard. 

I ask her a little bit about her Estonian roots and she tells me all about how small the fashion industry is in Estonia; her reason for moving to London. ‘If I had stayed in Estonia I don’t know what I’d be doing, probably working for a fashion magazine of something.’ Ooooooo I murmur teasingly, glancing around at the other journalists standing beside me, it takes a moment then she’s grabbing my arm and apologizing, a slight blush risen in her cheeks; ‘No, No, I didn’t mean it like that!’ she exclaimed obviously horrified, ‘quick, Kristel, tell them! Oh, now I’ve blown it...’ As I quickly reassured her that I was merely teasing I couldn’t help being won over by her charm. Finally, I ask her to complete the sentence: Fashion is... She laughs, ‘I’m always saying this, but you’ll have to star it out. Fashion is a b****!’ 

Fashion may be a b**** but if there’s one thing I’ve learned tonight then it’s that Kriss Soonik isn’t. And in this industry that’s an attitude that will take her to the top.