She mused, She mooned.

"Flaxen hair plaited, skin porcelain, limbs lithe, earlobes drip with tiny diamonds.

Swan-like poise, practised and perfected. taste for lace, organza, Laduree shades.

Shell pink, Opalescent, Prussian blues.

About bows and frous, brocade and tweed."

Vogue, March, 2012

"She mused, she mooned.

‘I suppose you think I’m very brazen or tres fou

pinching her cheeks til the roses came

the way women wear their prettiest everything

expensive imagination, Tulip Texas, Lulamae. Reading dreams.

honest tongues, dishonest hearts

‘Oh he’s not my idea of absolute finito’

moseyed, sea-ward moving, glittery voyager, confetti air,

silvery, her hooves, careened,"

A few favourites underlined...

 Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote

/ Peonies/ Castle Gardens, Glass Houses.

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Madame Antoine.

Aren't we all.

Toile'n til early hours.. 

Spring in Fialta.

working and sewing, trips back home, London in sunshine, woodland walks, mint blazers, turquoise jewels, french tips..

Spring in Fialta - Vladimir Nabokov

a few pretty words and sentences underlined..

"picture postcards, amethyst rock + the mantelpiece dreams..

on such a day in the early thirties I found myself.

coral, slate-blue sidewalk

violaceous syllables, most rumpled of flowers.

flutters and effluvia of that gray day, vernal essence

almond trees beyond the chapel

pulse of the distant sea

lassoing, velvety, fawn, ephemeral, amity, interlacing.

thrones.

with more mouth than meaning. pale lip.

Russian fairytales, vignettes + white wilderness.

book of our two lives.

outside, milky dull. Tartar memories, drifted from the bare windows of the pale houses, bloomed listlessly, her sleeves trailing to..

an ashtray, stood aslant on the couch near one of her heels.

some parisian drama, plush wall.

remains of breakfast, honey stained knife..

sudden draft of muslin embroidered with white dahlias, french window, diminutive cast-iron balcony beyond to inhale dry maple leaves and gasoline.

Poisonous pun, veiled eyes, motionless pharoahlike face, childish celerity.

Dapper doll-like rosy Segur, a lover of art and a perfect fool."

links to images found via my Pinterest.

Palette Collage.

Coral nails, wooly jumpers, dusty pinks + powder blues, colour palette collage. 

Little brainstorms.

Colour Palette / Sweet Details + Fastenings

So I made a collage in relation to my colour palette of pastels and my theme/concept of childhood. Rainbow cheerios, candy-floss, marshmallow, milkshakes and sprinkles.

Over easter, I want to photograph vintage sweet shops, looking at colours and shapes for palette and details. In terms of experimentation... I want to integrate the technology aspect and colour-graduation detail, through spraying the sweets silver or white. Exploring the sweets as embellishments/ fastenings. Playing around with strawberry laces/ wires and cables.

links to all the images above can be found on my Pinterest + Tumblr.

The Colour Project: Experimentation.

So after today's tutorial with my group, we experimented with some of the samples we all brought in. Together we've come up with a really beautiful colour palette - a combination of pastel pinks, blues, deep purples, indigo's and we want to integrate silver in there too. For Silhouette, we're inspired by crystals and hair, hard and angular intwined with soft and delicate shapes. For detailing, we're thinking industrial inspired fastenings, silver bolts, nails, pins etc. contrasting with the delicate aesthetic. We want to create a capsule collection for Spring/Summer.

Here are few images of us experimenting with colours and printing...

Inspiration for silhouette - crystals and minerals, taking suggestions of silhouette from the shards of glass and different formations... useful in terms of garment length perhaps. Working with the concept of weathering and wearing out. Asymmetrical in structure, top heavy.

The concept of breaking up materials and reforming them. Samples above - Polly Giedrojc

Dye samples and sketchbook work - Emily Roberts

Experimenting with an array of pastel shades.

Delicate, smoke-like imagery on top of gridded paper - in terms of theme - exploring the idea of measuring, the concept of us constantly trying to measure and figure out the natural world around us. Grid sample - Kaylah.

Painting on top of recycled, ironed plastic, printed onto paper... created this beautiful texture that resembles that of skin. Print samples - Jessica Haughton

Print samples - Jessica Haughton