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!!!

Tell me what you want...

What Universities really, really want...


It's quite simple, they want to see passion and dedication.
This means extra work, projects visits and experience that your eduction doesn't just hand to you on a plate. From my interviews I noticed few things that seemed to go down really well and a few more things that they were looking for:

• Fashion Illustration skills 
• CAD and CAM
• Relevant work experience 
• Interest in all areas of the course, not just design (especially business, actually)
• Finished garments that you made yourself
• Finished garments that you pattern cut yourself (NOT from a commercial pattern)
• Good sewing skills
• Samples of ideas with clear thought progression
• Sketchbooks made out of college
• Life drawing experience 
• Knowledge of current news and trends

All of these things they really really love. I think it's because they're skills that many candidates don't have. So yes you may have brilliant designs but that doesn't mean very much of you can't the pattern cut and sew them. They're looking for the full range skills. 
Also, they adore everything done outside of college. So work on that!


While I'm here I can remember some things that they don't like as well...

• Mess! So unorganised portfolios are out.
• Over-decoration. Let your work speak for itself, don't drown it!
• Irrelevant work. So you made a print. Why didn't you print it onto lingerie?

That's about it! Umm, Good Luck!  

Sunk in a little now...

Ok, so now I'm starting to get excited!


And so, secure in my own future am generously deciding to put up some of my experiments and some tutorials to help others that are currently in the awful position of having to make an entire portfolio good enough to impress one of the world's top fashion colleges with absolutely no clue as to where to begin. It might be interesting for other people too, if you want to try your hand at a few lingerie-based craft projects or just have waaay too much free time.


A little taste of what's to come:

• Practical portfolio advice
• Interview hints and tips
• Lingerie experiments
• Best of the literary world
• Lingerie tutorials and know how
• Top lingerie trends
• Some other equally exciting stuff

Can you wait?? I can't!

The day my future began...

So today I got a conditional offer for Fashion Contour from LCF... Better start a blog about it???


Genuinely had!
Sooo, how am I feeling? Actually just relieved, all I need to do is achieve a humble pass on my Art Foundation and then that's it; hello future! 
So things I am looking forward to about this summer:

• Starting at LCF
• Becoming an official 'London gal' qualified to give directions to foreigners 
• Moving in with the boyf
• Becoming mummy to a couple of lovely puppies
• Shopping at Waitrose for dinner and raiding Rymans for shiny new stationery
• Possibly becoming a 'regular' at a cafe/bar (so sad, so true)
• Umm, taking over the world? Maybe!

I will see you all there! xx