Wednesday, April 30, 2008

reviewing the reviews

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[Amended later, with big thanks to Helen from Sassybella : Patty Huntington is blogging over here . Thank goodness.] Well, not really [this ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

a few good distractions

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Then it gets sillier . No comment - I won't pick on this any further. The Sydney Morning Herald's coverage of RAFW is indexed here ...
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

lazy?

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This sums up the past four days as far as the thesis goes: What was I doing? Like that saint whosiwhatsit, I was summoning the birds, of cou...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

things that made me laugh while in melbourne

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Yeah, I know, I was there almost two months ago, but I was tidying up my albums now so here they are. Seen on the street when I caught up wi...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Earth Pledge FutureFashion revisited

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Just linking to an excellent post by Jill Danyelle (she of fiftyRX3 fame and of danyelle.org ) about the show, quite passionately pointing...

while reading a manual for aspiring fashion designers...

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...I feel compelled to point out that a garment will rarely contain one of these: It might include a yoke, however: (If you do know of a dec...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

long leg panty girdle

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When I first heard of Mara Havinoviski's 'Patterns for Fabric Economy' (1969) , I got very excited. A trawl through the websites...
Monday, April 21, 2008

still on copying

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Still on the issue of copying/interpreting/adapting other people's ideas, I had a chat with a friend yesterday. She started a new job so...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

you say inspiration, i say...

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With RAFW around the corner, the bets are on: who will attempt to 'reinterpret' Givenchy's eyelets from Spring 2008? (Copying i...
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rank in three parts

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I know I said I'd wait till next weekend with washing the jeans . I buckled. One pair came out of the freezer only on Friday and yet to...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

more fabrics! and two milestones

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The fabrics from KimoYES arrived on Friday and I'm very pleased and excited: they're simply divine. What's even better, Jill f...
Friday, April 18, 2008

"Is It Still Fashion Design If You Use a Butterick Pattern?"

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In short, no it's not. It's copying, and it's a little bit illegal, I'm sure. Fair enough, I know a few 'designers' ...
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Thursday, April 17, 2008

on the flipside

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Over the past few month I've talked about the two pairs of jeans that I bought in October, of 'raw' (=unwashed) denim, that one...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

fabrics!

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Last night two fabrics from Hemp Gallery were waiting for me when I got home: Denim , of 55% hemp, 45% cotton (not organic or otherwise les...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

men better designers than women?

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I can't not write about this although initially I wasn't going to. On Monday, Nicholas Huxley (whom I've met and who is quite ch...
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Monday, April 14, 2008

the fashion designer

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"This designer is about the most unhappy and unnecessary species of the day. He is uncreative by profession, unprepared for any task bu...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

from a camel's toe to an elephant's vulva

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This has nothing to do with anything but had me in stitches, and it sort of does relate to patternmaking, and Kathleen points out an import...
Friday, April 11, 2008

deep immersion

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The past couple of weeks have seen me writing more intensely than at any other point during the project, except for a couple of isolated per...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

sustainable fashion

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The idea that fashion is transient and all about change and therefore cannot ever be sustainable seems to fascinate some pseudo-intellectual...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008

misc.

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Some great news from Hong Kong that will hopefully have a considerable impact in China, too, over time. Still from Ecotextile News, more gr...