About the Fashion Show

This Sunday is the Shei Fest Fashion Show. Instead of having a runway show exhibiting 3 student designer collections, the Fashion Director of Shei decided to have our Collections exhibited on human mannequins instead. She said that she wants the show to be cohesive- showing all clothes in one run, which means we designers would not be distinguished amongst one another. Therefore, she asked me if I was interested in exhibiting my clothes on the human mannequins during the intro before the runway show and I agreed (this will highlight my work separately). The show is this SUNDAY! but I don't know the other logistics yet (time, entrance fee, etc). Grace Cassell (Fashion Director) and I will discuss that today and I will post an announcement on here separately.

Other updates about my progress include that I've had an editorial fashion shoot for each garment, which will be exhibited April 16th at the THR3E Exhibition and while I may have created 7 different looks, I will most likely only be exhibiting 6 of them in our Offsite Space. I believe these 6 looks make a more cohesive collection than the 7.

Here is a sneak preview of the Fashion Shoot.

Timeline/Training Log

It has been a long time since I last posted so here is an update on my progress thus far. The IP Show is about a week or so away and there is still a lot I need to do.

I am pretty much finished with the inside of the brochure. I have completed the race course timeline. It took me a lot longer to create this than I had originally imagined. I ended putting a lot more detail into each building/monument in order to create a more realistic look.

Now that I have finished illustrating every mile of the race, I can now look at it as a whole and decide if any changes need to be made before the exhibition. But, for now I need focus on the informational part of the brochure for the next couple of days. The next step is to finish the course map and hotel/restaurant map, followed by the first spread, finalizing the information, and cover/back designs.

I am still trying to figure out color in this piece. I know I want to use red and blue but I am not sure if these particular colors are working...

I recently had an idea of a take-away I could include in my final exhibition. I was thinking about creating another post card that had a little bit about the race on the back along with registration information. I would also include my contact information and website. I would create 26 different version of this post-card. Each one would have a different mile from the timeline. This way the illustrations would be bigger and more of the detail could be seen. This idea will have to be more of a last minute thing if I have some extra time before the show, but I think it would definitely is an interesting idea.

cars from memory

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Pieces Coming Together

5 Pieces done, still working on 2 more. Some photos here. Shei Editorial Photoshoot of my work this Friday.

Design 2 (E-02)

This week I cut the components for Design 2, E-02. The process required 2 router appointments equaling 16 hours in total. Here are some in-process images...

.5" green edge acrylic

Acrylic on the router

Olive burl cut prep - This particular job required a jig within a jig. The first jig allowed me to tell the machine exactly where the wood was located on the router bed while the second, inner jig, provided precision for flipping the piece.

Olive Burl inside the jigs

Routing the top of the olive burl - roughing pass

After finishing pass

Roughing out the underside of the bowl inlay

Design 2 (E-02) Prep

Mold for filling the olive burl voids with polyester resin.

Olive Burl in mold

Olive with clear cast polyester resin

Milled acrylic edge tests

Near the End

As of right now, I have a total of 5 pieces done. Just one more closer to my goal of 6. If I find time, I might attempt to do 1 more, total of 7. I've also been trying on my clothes on size 0-2 girls and they fit well. Aside from the collection, I'm also working on the graphic price tags for each piece and will shoot editorial photos of my work throughout this week with Shei (to be exhibited in April and used on my personal website). 3 different models will be featured, each wearing 2 of my pieces.

Other News: Shei Fest Fashion show will be held in the Michigan Ballroom.

Here are some photos of the work coming along.