Behind The Scenes

Here are some behind the scenes photo's from the shoot, thankfully it didn't rain, so there were no soggy paper collars or buttons!

Shoot

On Friday I will be shooting my new collection, so this week I have been busy making little props for the shoot and trying to remind myself how to construct a basic garment.
Everything is just balanced on the cloak in the image above, I dont want to attach them just yet as I need to some how transport the cloaks, collars and buttons safely to London.

Ash Bash

My new favourite thing... my handmade Ash Bash Snow bunny T-shirt!

My friend Ashley has designed a range of lovely handmade hats, t-shirts and sweatshirts. As well as Ashley being a very talented designer she is also a ski instructor, so when designing this collection she carefully considered materials and what is suitable for the slopes.

The Ash Bash website is on its way... http://www.ashbashdesigns.com/

New Collection....

Here are my final prototypes of my new collection!
I've really enjoyed producing these pieces, most of my inspiration comes from animals so I thought I would embrace this... my overactive imagination went into overdrive resulting in these magical creatures! These pieces will be available to buy in Kabiri in March.

Questions

Haha this is cracking...although someones beard is getting a little out of hand!

I sewed these question marks and clouds for Rob a while back, it is for an A-Z project he has been carrying out for a uni project.


"For the letter Q of my A-Z I have the word questions.

I believe we should never let that six year old with in us die, the age when we are most inquisitive.

Why this, why that?

It fades as we grow older and (in theory) wiser, but to stay wise would mean to always be questioning what we know, in order to adapt to changes and evolve as human beings and creative individuals. We should not take things at face value every time, we owe it to our selves to delve deeper into what ever it may be we find your selves doing.

Possibly finding the answer after having asked the question is surely better than not asking the question and never finding the answer."

You can see all of his hard work for the project here.

Colourful Katie

Today was to be the last day of "What Katie Wore", as the 1 year challange has been completed, however I don't think it is now,I don't know?
Anyway Katie has worn these necklaces of mine quite a few times but these two are easily my favourite two outfits.Ever.

Hello...and who's this?

I've been working on my next collection for S/S 10and heres a small peak at work in progress. apologies for the poor quality photographs!

Boxes

I made these boxes from scratch to present my new Lookbook, Media Kit and Pressbook, they were all colour coded to correspond with the colour of the line on each item. 

Still no laptop!It was meant to come back to me today, but the snow put a stop to that. 

Back outside to make snow rabbits.

What Katie Wore

My felt Shellesque was featured on What Katie Wore again this week.

My laptop is still away being repaired, regular posts will resume upon its return!

Container Complete

Here are some lovely photo's taken by Patricia from Container Plus of the completed AMV BBDO Installation that we put together a couple of weeks ago.

"Staff were invited to submit their thoughts for an ideal Christmas, answers included – Christmas morning would be spent swimming in a steaming vat of gingerbread latte, as opposed to the chill of the serpentine and A snowball fight with the Arsenal team on Highbury Fields followed by all the people in the world I love camped round a blazing fire in a medieval castle exchanging Xmas presents and dreams for the new year!

We screen printed the responses onto white paper ribbons and draped them from the ceiling and around the Christmas tree. We also made a festoon of lights to illuminate the ribbons at ceiling height and added some snow drifts to the windows." Container Plus.

Gap in the Market

I've been preparing for a presentation..i've been discussing how my props and accessories fill a gap in the market.... except I havn't really talked about the gap in the market at all, I just made a model of it instead.

Bigggg Booook

I made a giant book to store all my work inside of, for my hand in this week. When the book is layed flat the cover can be lifted where the "pages" store my work.

Navajo Lookbook

My lookbooks arrived today, (second time round ooops).
I'm really pleased with how they came out. I was a bit worried as the printer that I used, gives you no control over the paper stock, however they came out fine and the paper stock isn't bad! I will try and take some better pictures later this week.
Thanks to Rob for designing my lovely typeface and Logo!

Container Plus: Part 2

This weekend we put up the AMV BBDO installation. We had to review idea of the paper ribbons wrapping around each other as this was very fiddly to arrange whilst on scaffolding. After some re-arrangement the installation really looked good, I am awaiting the final photographs of the comleted installation.

Container Plus

This week I have been working with Container Plus on their Christmas installation for AMV.
The installation involves long rolls of 25 foot paper, screen printed Christmas ideals and a lot of circle cutting!
The installtion will be going up this weekend, it will be a busy day full of fishing wire and scaffolding.....

Wolf Robes for Buckstyle

The navajo themed animation for Buckstyle is now complete!
It looks amazing, welldone Quentin! I love all the illustrative animated animal references and how the accessories I made for the shoot come to life during the animation.

12 Days of Christmas at No-One

I was just on the No-One website and saw they have made a nice collage using different designers pieces,including two of my own, charming chain and shellesque.
This graphic/collage is to promote their 12 days of Christmas which features exclusive stock from 12 designers.

Bethnal Green Working Mens Club

Today I had a little table at a charity event at Bethnal Green Working Mens Club.
There was some lovely things for sale there, from vintage clothing to screen printed ceramics and lovely looking cakes from the Shoreditch W.I.
I had never been to Bethnal Green Working mens club before....I was not dissapointed, the venue is amazing!
It was a really good day especially as I got a Panda jumper and a free tuna roll.

Set Complete

Here are the finished photographs featuring the accessories and sets I created. woodland creatures wearing Jessica Dance, what could be better!

Film Shots

Here are some of the lovely photographs shot on film from the Navajo Shoot.
Photography by Ross Treavail.

Going Somewhere

Going Somewhere from I Will Create on Vimeo.

On Saturday night I helped Rob out with his stop frame animation. It was the most painstaking animation yet...even more than when I had to be in an E4 box on a hot august day, and it took even longer than the Glug- All I want for Christmas animation, where I was actually barricaded in my room for the day because all my furniture had to be against the door in order to shoot it.
Although it was freeeeeeezing, seeing it when it has all been put together makes me forget a bout how cold and tired I was (a little bit).
Welldone Rob!

Media Kit Images, Behind the Scenes

Today I shot the photographs for my media kit that I am putting together.
As I specialise in set design and accessories, I thought it would be nice to combine the two in a way that would get across my personality.
These are some behind the scenes snaps taken on my phone, I will put up the photoshopped, completed images in the next few days.

Credits
Rabbit-Alistair
Badger- Christopher
Birds- Sue and Lisa
Glamorous assistant- Rob

Lapin and Big Bird Small Bird

Here is some more rough work in progress for my little sets that I am making. I love the contrast from the image above with the image on the post below, its funny how things can look so different when they are put into a new context.

Jessica Dance - Look Magazine

My Gold shellesque and Juggle head have been featured in this weeks Look magazine. They are part of the 'Sculpture Class' fashion feature. exciting!
Both accessories are avalable at kabiri.

Nesting

Here is a rough mock up I have been working on for a little set for my accessories. I think i will make some baby birds for this set too?

Screeen Printed stationary

Today I have been screen printing my logo onto envelopes, tags and the only blank canvas bag that I had (which I burnt with the press oooops). I will be making more bags when more blank ones arrive next week.

Navajo Shoot

Here are some stills from the Navajo film which was shot for the BuckStyle website the other week. I'm happy with how my bespoke accessories look, i'm going to create a little look book with some of the images. I will post the film as soon as it's complete!
photography by Ross Trevail .

La Roux

Last week I was contacted by Nova Dando's assistant, requesting for me to create a bespoke accessory (aswell as a couple of accessories I stock in Kabiri ) for Mickey from La Roux, with the possibility of it being worn on their tour.
Here are the pieces they requested along with the bespoke piece at the top of this post.

Its been a busy week for Rob

Rob really should consider a modelling career.
Last week an elk this week a hand model.
visit the die gestalten website to watch the interview with Postler and Furguson, who are the creators of the amazing paper guns (amongst many other paper objects) you have probably seen being sold in various stores around London.

And Again....

What Katie wore's Katie wearing my felt Shellesque.

Navajo shoot

..Some behind the scenes photo's from Saturday's Navajo shoot for BuckStyle.
This will be made into a short stop motion film for the Buckstyle website, involving flapping birds, jumping horses and body paint.

Navajo Jewels

I took some quick snaps of Rob wearing my completed Navajo themed accessories.
Rob thinks he looks like an Icelandic viking, what ever one of those is?
The BuckStyle shoot (using these accessories) took place yesterday, I will upload some behind the scenes photos over the next day or two.

Katie Strikes Again...

Katie from the infamous What Katie Wore was sporting one of my necklaces again today, the outfits get better and better....

Antler Head

Work in progress for the menswear shoot/film, every one needs a pair of antlers, surely.

Weave Central

I've been teaching myself to weave,
I am making 3 or 4 bespoke accessories for a menswear shoot and film for Buckstyle/Elliott James Sainsbury, so this is part of my first piece so far.
The theme is "Navajo meets Shoreditch", it should be fun!

Swarovski Crystallized

Last Friday I met Arabella from Talk PR who invited me along for a tour of the Swarovski Crystallized concept store, It is a lovely store and has some wonderful jewellery that can all be customised or made from scratch,there a drawers and drwawers of lovely shiney jewels to choose from. I love the brooch above!
The website is great, by using the personal stylist tool you can establish what jewellery suits you by selecting face shape,hair colouring, skin tone ect, this advises what kind of jewellery would suit you best, amazing! www.swarovski-crystallized.com

"At the centre of the worlds’ most vibrant and creative capital city is a unique treasure offering a totally new shopping experience. From an extensive line of ready-to-wear jewellery and a unique customizing design tool, to collaborations with internationally renowned designers. "

Patricia Nicolas

Today I was invited to Patricia Nicolas' lovely studio.
I got to see her amazing,intricate jewellery (above).
Patricia is soon to be opening her own boutique in Madrid stocking a variety of hand picked designer jewellery and accessories.

Buckstyle,No Man Is An Island

I just found this lovely shoot on Men's fashion journal Buckstyle , which features my Charming Chain necklace on one of the models, it is for their October 'Backpack Special'.

Faryl Advert

Here are a couple of photo's taken on the day of the shoot for the Faryl Advert to promote her new album. I assisted Helen Macintyre with the paper prop making . The video will be soon to follow...

Look Closely..

Last night when I went to see Bat For Lashes, the girl playing the organ was wearing one of my metallic brooches, lovely!we also met Natasha and Sarah from the band after the gig, who were also lovely!
Unfortunatley the one thing an Iphone cant do is take a good photo, hense the blurry dark photos above.

Little Lapin Shaped Gift..

I made Lorraine the Lapin as a little gift ,I made her a crocheted blanket to keep her in warm in the post.
Lorraine is going to live at the Container Plus studio, she is an overdue thank you present for Luise, for kindly put a bit of work my work my way a couple of months ago, coming along and supporting me at my launch and just generally taking interest in my ridiculous projects!

What Katie Wore....Round Two

My necklace was on the "What Katie Wore" blog again this week, amazzzing outfit!

Bat For Lashes Post Updated...

Here is an clearer photo of sarah from Bat For Lashes wearing one of my silver Shellesques!

Helen Macintyre

This week I had a lovely couple of days working for Helen Macintyre.
I helped out drawings and cutting out all sorts of woodland creatures, plants,vines and flowers! It is all to be used for a music Video/advert for singer "Farryl".

Jessica Dance available at kabiri.co.uk

Kabiri have recently launched their shiny new website, and my accessories are now available to buy on there... www.kabiri.co.uk .

What Katie Wore

Today my Circle Neck accessory was featured on What Katie Wore,
And wowzers what a compliment from Joe the blogging Boyf to say "I think this may well be one of Katie’s best outfits of the year. What do you think? It’s all based around an incredible Jessica Dance necklace..."
I definately think it is the best outfit of the year so far , although I may be Biased?
If you don't know what the What Katie Wore blog is all about; I reccommend you check it out!

Bat For Lashes

I was so happy I made it to see Bat for Lashes at Bestival, even more so when I saw sarah the drummer wearing my Gold Shellesque necklace, so excited! Unfortunatley....I didn't have my camera, so for now you have some screen shots of paused video from youtube, watch the full video (where my necklace is a lot clearer) "Whats a girl to do" .
I sent an email to the bat for lashes website requesting some press/backstage shots and i got a lovely email back from Sarah herself saying se would get some sent over and would like some more accessories as hers was borrowed from Natasha The lead singer, how nice!

A bit last minute...

Here is my very last minute Bestival outfit, because I've been away I forgot about sorting out my Space themed costume...luckily I usually work with metallic fabrics so I rustled up a few things that were hanging around my room, did a bit of very quick sewing and they are now going to be shoe horned in as part of my costume..some how!

Im noticing a pattern...

Its begining to be a yearly event where every september I try and learn to knit (im not sure why it always seems to be in september?) well i try to improve my very basic knitting skills anyway. I keep it going for about a month then forget everything I learnt and start all over again a year later.
I have been in portugal for a few days so I thought it would be a good time to pick up knitting again, especially because expert knitters Grandma and Aunty Mavis were there to tutor me and correct quite a few of the many mistakes I made! here is the finished result my lovely green hairband....I think me and crocheting get on better than me and knitting do.

One Step Closer...

My holding page is up online...work is now in progress for my new site.