The death of Haute Couture...

Lily Allen's reception dress. 

'My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is...' - Ellen DeGeneres

Vintage myth - Everything is to your taste.

Pathway ended on Tuesday which is relief and we have now started on the biggy!! The Final Major Project or as we know it as, the FMP!! I can't tell you how scared I am now that it has started and it is real!! I didn't have a clue what to do or how to start it, this is my final project at Cronton so I want it to be bigger and better than ever before and I want to test the skills that I have learnt and picked up over the past going on 3 years!! What a week it has been guys and gals, previously in my life, I have realized I dither when it comes to buying clothes! OBJECTION MY LORD!! I don't dither, will not really...OK, you got me, I spent 20 minutes wondering around The Works in Liverpool about which Sketchbook to buy, considering the amount of pages and the gsm (grams per square meter), I went for a A3 sketchbook with 130gsm which is ideal for what I am doing. On the other hand, Mr Glen's rule is make an decision within 20 seconds or you won't buy it at all because your over thinking it! His concept is bloody fantastic! (Sorry for the language). He picks something up and decides instantaneously whether to buy it or not, you should of seen my face!! I was speechless as I tend to dither over a bottle of coke never mind a pair of trousers.

For the Final Major Project I have started by watching a documentary on the secrets behind Haute Couture which enabled me to get inside knowledge of the industry that lies within the fashion houses and enabled me to get an idea into what makes this way of dressing people such a lucrative business. There is fine line between making something viable for a club member to wear and something that is completely garish and impossible to find an occasion to wear it to. Lily Allen had a £200,000 dress made by Karl Lagerfeld  who is the creative director for Chanel. (See first image) and is handmade by the man himself. It is inspired by 1920's vintage with the squared off collar. Is it something of a spectacle and is reaching the top end for a dress. The piece opposite is another Chanel creation which is constructed for the Haute Couture bridal collection. The exquisite details on the bodice, hate and lower skirt makes for something that fits and flows over and around the contours of the body beautifully, something like this would carry a hefty price tag, get your credit cards at the ready girls and also a serious overdraft!!

Continuing with the project, I need to find the routes into how and why Haute Couture is dying a slow and painful death, my first port of call is the high street where all the elements from Haute Couture end up in some form or another as designers take influences from there shapes and colour palettes. The shop window is what makes or breaks a shop as it encourages shoppers and is advertisement to the world.This is the shop front to Ted Baker and is simple showing into the shop whilst displaying the garments.The simple block text that runs across the top of the page doesn't interfere with the rest of the window. Panels of glass deliver the light and creates the modern atmosphere.

Personal life...
Another week has passed and yet again not much has happened....
Harvey has realized that climbing onto my bed frame gets him the attention that he desires after I ignored him in place of a  couple of hours extra sleep.
Glen is doing well, 7 months last week!! Jolly good! We are doing well and we are moving at a steady pace. Learn more about him on a daily basis!!