About Me

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As a little girl I would make dresses out of pillow cases and colour them with crayola markers, spend hours scribbling shoes and dreamed of working in the fashion industry, not much has changed since then. Im studying at Limerick School of Art and Design which I love,in my third year of fashion design. My favourite designers at the moment are Haider Rick Owens, Hussein Chalayan,Iris Van Herpen,Stella McCartney,Steffie Christaens , Gareth Pugh and Anne Sophie Madsen (and the list goes on and on and on!). I am driven and excited about fashion and look forward to the future.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Knitting Nightmare!


 So it is 9:12 and I am dreading the day already I have a whole day of knit ahead. Now I thought I could get away with machine knitting, but thats not going to happen.FASHION STUDENTS NEED TO KNOW HOW TO HANDKNIT. The only thought to keep me going is the idea that maybe, just maybe one day I'll knit like Sandra Backlund (I said maybe). So in through the bunny hole around the oak tree, out through the bla bla bla bla!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Kate Cusack Jewelery/ Costume Designer



I am not normally the girl who likes jewelery made out of buttons or zips or ribbons, however looking at these unique and very special pieces I would wear one any day!! I was thinking about zips for my ranking project and the theme enclosure. In love the necklaces : )
Ohhhh wow!!!



Knit Techniques.


Striping
Missioni
Alexander Mc Queen


Rib Stitch


Olga Mashkova



Intarsia
Alexander Mc Queen





Ladder Stitch
Lainey Keogh
Rhia Thomas

Moss Stitch
Shao Yen Chen

Moss stitch 
Cabels
Rhia Thomas
Burberry



Loop Stitch




Simple Lace

Mark Fast
Mark Fast


Ridged Eyelet Stitch



Four Needle Knitting

Clare Ann O Brien

Sandra Backlund


Circular Medallion

Looking into circular knitting machine

From the Samari Knitter Blog


Increasing/ Decreasing

Increasing
Decreasing



Shaping

Shaping an armhole


Sandra Backlund

Integrated Shaping


Snadra Backlund

Ria Thomas

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Fashion Manipulation.

Pleating

Jean Paul Gautier
Issey Miyake

Boning
Versace

Jean Paul Gautier

Folding / Origami 


Maurico Velasquez Posada

Quilting
Junya Watanabe

Junya Watanabe

Gathering
Alexander Mc Queen

Viktor and Rolf

Twisting
Vivienne Westwood
Burberry


Fashion Project


Decay

Dirty Alleyway: Broken glass, Homeless People, Graffiti, Filth

Decay of a House

Enclosure
Typical Spanish Enclosure
Lock and Chain

Tribal
Textures and Patterns
Different Tribes

Electric
Tracey Emin
Lighting: lamps, shades,bulbs.

Industrial lighting (Malaga airport)