Spring Poems

Spring Poems by brimalotke

All this winter weather is making me dream of springtime, and also my upcoming trip to France. I'll definitely be posting a lot of pictures when I get back late March. Stay tuned for some more French related posts!

Shoe Love

Shoe Love by brimalotke

Loving the glittery shoes and how fun they can make any outfit!

More to come soon!

Focus on You

Focus on You by brimalotke

New Website

Recently the Fashion A Magazine's website went through some changes and is now completely new! It's more professional and stylish looking, very modern, very fun and easy to use. The only downside is that all the articles I have written are no longer up on the site, however, it's not necessarily a bad thing. With the magazine taking a more professional route the writing style will be changing as well. This will expand my writing portfolio, giving me more diversity in my examples, and allow me to grow as a writer. I do have all of the articles I wrote for the previous website saved, so if you're interested just contact me. Also, since the website is new the links on my previous posts won't be working. I will be going in and editing them but there's a lot and it'll take some time. If you're interested, go and check out the new website here.

Alice Inspired

Alice Inspired by brimalotke

Looking at my senior collection these past couple of weeks has had me thinking a lot about what truly inspired my collection. It's kind of tricky because after our presentations and such in senior design last semester I changed some of my ideas. Also with this semester, I'm using the same fabrics but the inspiration is coming from a different place. 

When I was doing just my menswear last semester I was drawing inspiration from well tailored suits from A. McQueen and the Savage Beauty exhibit I had seen in London as well as from the patterns I wanted to use and how they all worked together. this semester, working with just 1 men's look and 3 women's has me drawing inspiration from places such as "Alice in Wonderland" and all the red, black, and white aspects to it. Also the different music videos that draw ties from the story. For example, Natalia Kills's music video Wonderland has some obvious draws from the story line (besides the title). I love watching music videos and a lot of the story lines in the videos are insanely intriguing. If you don't watch a lot of music videos I recommend it, it can change your outlook on a song.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens; I've only started in fashion fabric for my men's look and only have 2 looks patterned so far. I'll be posting some pictures as I go, especially when I get to Gabby's corset, and write little descriptions on why I chose certain fabrics and tailoring choices and more! SO stay tuned, the show is April 2nd and I plan on having all of my 8 looks (I did 4 last semester) completed by the middle of March.

Decisions Made: Men's Shoes

Dairius modeling the shoes.

While putting my senior collection together, I've decided to take a more punk rock turn and move away from the polished and sophisticated route my collection was headed. I picked out hair and makeup to help ease my collection further into a punk rock vibe along with my music choice, Lydia by Highly Suspect.
One of the big things that was keeping my collection more polished was the men's shoes. Originally I was going to have them all wear their own black dress shoes, however, when I looked at fit pictures after the break it just didn't seem right. After a while, I considered getting converse for all the guys (5 male models) but I was pretty hesitant in making a final decision. When I discovered these black canvas shoes online at H&M on sale I just went for it. 
I'm pretty happy with the results and they all fit the models- which is pretty great since 2 guys had to go down a half size so that I could order the shoes. I can't wait for all their looks to come together. I'm still pretty positive that I don't want to be an apparel designer and that I'd much rather go into costume design or writing, but I'm having fun with my collection and that's what matters.