Thank the lord for Gen..

Oxford is RED

Magdalen Tower- turned red. Its the idea that counts....not great outcome

Oxford in COLOUR

Quotes...

How many different ways can you say goodbye?

Looking through a window..in my sketchbook

Etsy selling

Just got an Etsy account...everything looks very cool and handmade, i love it. Just uploading some stuff to sell. For example a whole range of felt made objects i made last year!
http://www.etsy.com/people/IndiaRosePrince

Fuschia earrings..

What great earings these would make!

A wee sketch

The Foot of my Fathers

The open garage door

Brown paper sketch book...

My sisters shoe display

Me sunbathing in the garden after Henley and a duck!!

Blooming Brilliant Bloggers

Have recently discovered Garance Dore~ a wonderfully fashionably fashion blogger and inspiring illustrator! She posts some really great photos of stylish woman she sees, a fabulous bag or an art gallery. Really inspiring me to make my blog better. So here we go!

Transition Outfit at Fashion Show

Darshni wearing Kims and mine transition outfit in Brixton Village Fashion Show

Garden Garishes

Taking photos round garden centers, 'Mum please can we buy this!!'

GIANT SNACKS

When we  made a GIANT custard cream instead of a birthday cake for our friend and housemate Eloise!
(picture, our custard cream next to a normal sized one, right)

new artists to love

I adore discovering new artists. Someone new to admire and to file inspiration from. For example John Dilnot.

Garden Pests

Keys.....to the fashion show!

I now have 104 ceramic keys for my collar! I figured out that it takes me 7 and a half mintues to make one key, thats two every 15 mins, making 8 an hour. I made 50 yesterday. I made 8 today- i also knitted the yarn for my vest. I have the pattern piece for the vest so maybe i will start on that tonight?? Tomorrow Kim is going to help me paint the keys white then glaze them, then they will need to be fired again. I am trying to make as many keys as i can in the time i have. If i make 50 or more everyday- well that would be fantastic!

French for India...

I'm trying to learn french with 'French for Dummies'...i better go to Paris now! I've wannted to learn french for so long...i started to do it at GCSE but i gave up...i wannted to learn it here but its quite expensive, so french for dummies is the only way! Also my french house mate can help me! I really want to go to paris..then live there! Thats the dream....

Reconstruction....

A £3 wedding dress..old shirts...shrunken jumper..corset..humm what can you make out of that!? A coat from the wedding dress and shirt...a cute jumper which was also be wore as a skirt and another skirt! Such a fun day! Who knew wedding dresses could be so versatile!

Lee the Queen

Just watched a program about Alexander McQueen. Very sad. And wonderful. His life along with his 'founder' Isabella Blow. She was truly fabulous. Such a tragedy. It showed his first shows, and his last. How he shocked the world. His shows were art. His collections were staged like theatre. His models were actress. Beautiful and distorted in his designs. He is a queen. Its so sad how his talent was at his best when his mother and Isabel died. How can his talent carry on without him? No one could replace that type of imagination and originality.

Stumbled apon..

Found this really cute girl whilst i was trying to research time...

Tate on a napkin...

I forgot my notebook so i had to write on a napkin as i was wondering around the Tate today! I mainly wanted to go today to see the new 'Watercolour' exhibition which opened today, which was mentioned in Vogue. Watercolours are 'in' by the way! The colours and hues are everywhere at the moment- in fashion and interiors, makes any piece romantic- i think anyway. In the tate had every type of painting you can do with watercolours, which, as it happens, a lot! Its not all romantic landscapes! "Colour was regarded as an addional tool for drawings and illustrastions.."

Unit 1- Introduction to Higher Education

My visual and textual research for my rough guide project, Brixton, was well observed, however i could have collected more. I struggled for the 'gallery' part of the study task as i did not have enough information. I took photos of the exhibition but did not take notes. When visited Brixton i drew from observation and also took photos. I feel the drawings have better notification of the area. Collecting memorabilia from and around Brixton helped my visual understanding. Exploring the area helped me with my knowledge and people who worked and lived in Brixton. My selected media for the final image was a mixture of photography and fabric swatches. I wanted to have some textiles in my project. I feel i have managed my time well in this unit, despite being ill a few times. However i need to be more prompt on updating my blog as soon as i have it written i my notebook. I have not done this for this unit, therefore only blogging once i remember about the event/ lecture/ visit.

Robert Opie- Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising

A lot more interesting than i thought it would be actually. I loved all the old bottles, the labels were so cute! Not like there are now..so boring! There was a LOT of Guinness advertising, so i decided to research this particular brand further.

In 1752 Arthur was born! In 1863 the Guinness trade mark label was the O'Neal harp and famous signature of Arther Guinness. Guinness is a famous beer brand from Dublin. It all begins with a signature, Arthur signing a

 9,000-year lease on a disused brewery at St. James’s Gate. The brewery covers four acres and consists of a copper, a kieve, a mill, two malthouses, stabling for 12 horses and a loft to hold 200 tons of hay. Arthur begins brewing porter and ale.

SHOES! (the threatre production!!!)

Ah Shoes!! A Play on shoes! oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! It was amazing! No story line, just songs and dances about shoes! I wore my most fabulous shoes for the occasion (naturally) no one else seemed to be bothered! People were wearing uggs! UGGS I TELL YOU!......ew..
At the Peacock Theatre, a Sadler's Wells' smash-hit 'Shoes' came round for a second time, after being on last year and being too superb to just be on once!

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes 1909- 1929

The Russian Ballet at this time could not be more different than the English- very colourful, warm colours and very sexy! They had fantasy based costumes and men dressed as animals! "Diaghilev a likable man, but awful." Eric Satie. Serge Pavlovich Diaghileff first ballet season was marked by the exotic designs of the Russian-born artist Leon Bakst. The costumes in this exhibition was truly fabulous, refreshing to see when the 'norm ballet' outfit is rather..conventional...

Trash Fashion - Designing out waste

Newspaper, Bio-plastic,nettle fibers, all new materials being used for Eco fashion. At the 'Trash Fashion' exhibition there is a whole world outside the cotton, wool, silk material brackets. 'Cotton is the thirstiest plant on the planet.' There was this one waist coat -bio culture- which was crafted out of sugary bio film which is produced by the microbes that fermate green tea. It grows like bacteria in to a material, very durable.

(FFF) Fairytale Fabulous Fashion

For many, fabulous fashion cuture, IS a fairytale. What if you could read this fairytail? Its not for children this time, but for the out crying fashion easter inside each and every woman. Yes, not every woman can afford fashion vogues. Instead we look at them. And now read about them. 'Christian lacroix and the Tale of Sleeping Beauty'. A new series of tales by Camilla Morton. To come are the fairytale histories of John Galliano, Manolo Blahnik and Diane von Furstenberg. For girls like me, where such icons are charaters in my fansty wardrobe, this series of books shines out as a sequel of tales i could really contect with.

Clothes for your feet...

This is 'a celebration of pumps, sandals, slippers and more'! Shoes are fabulous and should be celebrated more often. Well in our current time, they are, and by the dozen. Two of the largest (in size and fame) department stores in London have recently opened a heaven of shoes for the world to gore at. Selfridges and Co in Oxford street have their extravagant 'Shoe Gallery' which is not only the largest place in the WORLD to hold THAT many shoes, but also, in my eyes anyway, it is giving shoes a right of place. Fame. And beauty. Then Harrods joined on the WE LOVE SHOES band wagon and invented their 'Shoe Salon'. In the March 2011 Vogue, the 'Shoe Salon' is advertised by the most marvelous picture! An 'Exclusively at Harrods by Christian Louboutin' shoe embellished decadently and beautiful displayed in a glass case with butterflies. How shoes should always be displayed. All little girls grow up believing that Cinderellas glass slipper could transform there lives, and foot wear forever. Woman's early history, shoes were hidden, under all of their petticoats and crinolines. A crime. A pair of new shoes 'might not cure a broken heart or soothe a tension headache', writes fashion critic Holly Brubach, but they will relieve the symptoms and chase away the blues.' Even though, as i have been a victim of all of those things, a beautiful pair of shoes can help a world of sins.

Aware Art Fashion Identity- Royal Academy of Arts

The exhibition showed the artists involved motivations for consuming fashion by how they interpreted in their work, however, this is not 'peoples' views, just theirs. Clothing is a clear marker of individuality and demonstrates our way of life of the person wearing the garments. You can see peoples need to consume fashion everyday. Its a basic desire. Its the norm. This exhibition presented a group of contemporary artists, all putting there mark on consumption.

Yohji Yamamoto- Femme Collection, Autumn/Winter 1991-92

 My favourite piece was the 'dress' by Yoyji Yamamoto (above). He expresses that he does not like fashion and wants to regain respect for clothing and promote independence for woman. This dress above has wooden frame work-which suggests a human skeleton. It has architectural structure and a feel of armour. You could see it as some sort of corset- showing weakness at the same time, strength from the materials.

Then there was the time we went to Brixton...

I bought this fab dress from brixton market, it looks like a dress that Rachel from friends wore in the old ones! Blue/Green/Grey....thin straps...pearlescent buttons...waist tie.......outlines of flowers..dark green outlines..creamy yellow flowers..above knee when worn...slight a-line hem....£14!!!
 Fabulous

Yummmm....anyone for a pig snout? Does anyone eat those? Hopefully they are just for dogs??!! Or for a sheep looking for a change..50p what a bargin! I should have bought a whole bunch!

SHOES

I'm researching shoe designers, ones with fab drawings! So far i have Andy Warhol and, of course, Manolo Blahnik. Any other surgestions?