A Summer Project

Photos from my final summer project for First Year.

It was a group project based on Boxing and Norman Hartnell, the Royal Couturier. Absolutely loved this project, I have always been a sucker for old school glamour and our allocated designer gave us the chance to design some really beautiful, long gowns. The boxing element also gave me the chance to use leather and padding, which as someone with a slight leather fetish, was perfect!

I really loved our final shoot for the collection. Another aspect of our project was a scruffy, pub aesthetic so we managed to shoot our looks in a cute, little pub called The Castle in Whitechapel. I recommend the pub, for the music alone, I have never had such a brilliant soundtrack to a shoot.

Ciao funny faces,

R xox

Flying the First Year Nest

Some of my work from my first project at LCF.

It really has been an incredible year for me, and hopefully the first of many. I have wanted to live in London and study Fashion for as long as I can remember and I still have to pinch myself sometimes when I realise that I'm doing it.

I have laughed and cried, launched wars against Nazi Housemates over rice krispies, gone without sleep for over 50 hours before a deadline, ran around the London Underground painted like a tiger, protested with 50,000 students, celebrated with thousands in Hyde Park for the Royal Wedding and had a bloody good time doing all of it.

Here's to an even better year come September!


"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."

Voltaire


R xox

The Enchanted Palace

This exhibition in on at Kensington Palace currently and is amazing. I recommend it to anyone with an interest in fashion, art or fantasy fairytales. I've never been to Kensington Palace before but it's been transformed into an "Enchanted Palace" with artists and designers such as Vivienne Westwood, William Tempest and Stephen Jones using different rooms to create art installations reflecting different historical stories and figures from the past. As a complete history and fashion geek it goes without saying that I loved it.
Most of the rooms had blacked out windows and the whole exhibition followed quite a spooky and almost sinister theme with bare trees and shadows reflected on the walls and ceilings. One of my favourite rooms was "The Room of Dancing Princesses" which was filled with bare, leafless tress and had the dresses of Princess Margaret and Princess Diana, posed in dancing stances, both tragic stories in their own ways.
Another very striking installation was Vivienne Westwood, who's work I adore anyway. Her room was a huge sweeping staircase called the Room of Flight, which depicted the story of one princess who married for love but later died during childbirth. The dress was placed standing on the staircase and was very ghostly without mannequin or body inside. A simple but powerful statement.

I apologise for the poor photography of the exhibition, cameras weren't allowed so it was very much a sneaky and shoddy job from my bag.

Lots of love, R xoxoxox