Tidbits on Katie
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Central Saint Martins MA Show ‘09
Number 6 on the runway is Katie Greenwood, winner of the Puma Motorsport Re Design competition. Her collection consisted of only 3 colours: pale pink, white and black. Long flowing jersey dresses looped between the legs with a combination of suede jackets and jersey shorts and t-shirts. Her designs exude an elegance within minimalism, comfortable yet chic. The richness in the simplicity of the designs brings sportswear into a new dimension of class, following the footsteps of major designers in chic sportswear like Stella McCartney and Prada. However, Katie stamps her originality on her designs with rolled up sleeves for her jackets and long jersey dresses but still maintains function and form.
Saving the Jacket
“The jacket just doesn’t sit well. I think it’s the collar,” Katie laments with her eyebrows furrowed as she looks at her jacket in the mirror. This is the suede jacket she created for her last dress on her line-up.
Tension is in the air as there’s barely a week left till the show and her jacket still does not fall nicely. After a seemingly futiile attempt to fiddle with her jacket in the mirror, she proceeds to work with Toni Tester, who is her pattern cutter and tutor, to salvage the jacket.
One can only wait and see how the jacket will turn out before the show.
Fry Up A Feast
Whetherspoons at Whitechapel was wonderful to wake up to. The huge glass windows allow the morning sun to shine through onto the wooden tables and chairs and illuminating the spacious room in the process. At night, the place turns into a bad where people can come and have a drink with friends. The atmosphere is relaxing and the service is good. The bar takes on a different role in the mornings: serving as an order desk for people to place their orders for breakfast.
The Breakfast Special includes tea, toast, pan-fried sausage, bacon, baked beans, hashbrowns and two glorious fried eggs to add on to the sunlight during the Golden Hour of the morning.
Line-up update.
After the line-up meeting on tuesday, Katie decided to alter the order of her collection line-up. The latest order line-up is below:
“Most of the clothes are completed. We’re just left with the pink suede items,” Katie commented about her collection.
“There’s something not quite right about the pink jacket though,” she said as she pointed to the 4th picture from the left. This suede jacket is currently not resting very well and she suspects it is because it is not as weighted below as the longer jacket in the last picture on her lineup.
“I’m probably going to add weights into the hems below and see whether the jacket falls better,” she said, thinking aloud.
This is not the first time the pink clothes have given her problems. The jersey cloth that was supposed to be dyed pink ran into some accidents and could not be used.
Line-up Day
Katie had been unfortunate as the material that was used for two of her dresses had been dyed the wrong colour.
“It was supposed to be dyed pink but it came out in some sort of a dark brown,” Katie later explained to me. She tried to explain to the panel of tutors there and then that the dying accident had caused her to have to re-order the material from the United States which would take another few days for it to arrive.
This was the line-up where the tutors reviewed the collections as a whole for the first time before the show. Katie was the first candidate up for review. Apparently, the tension in the air got worse and worse as the day progressed. However, Katie stood unwavered at the tension and still presented her collection in a way that was satisfactory to the tutors despite the dying hiccup.
The tutors eventually gave the approval for her to enter the show.
Below are some pictures from Katie’s line-up session:
The line-up on that day.
The panel of tutors.
Garance Doré
Garance Doré
I am in love with this French illustrator who wanders the streets of Paris taking snapshots of stylish everyday people and blogs about them. Not your typical street-style blog, she draws you closer with lovely snippets of her life in prose, which many fashion blogs do, but hers seems to hold a mystical quality that seduces you into her world through her clever display of words and pictures.
Thus, beginning this love affair between you and the people she looks at through her eyes. Before you know it, you’ll even start to relate to her and who knows, you just might fall in love with her.
It is a marvelous place to escape to after a long day at work.
She’s on: http://www.garancedore.fr/en/
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