'Summer luvin' and 'Little bitty pretty one' by Hayden Williams.

I have loved doing Hayden Williams drawings. He is my main inspiration. He has such good imagination on hair, poses, colours and the actual garments! I love them!

Bridal collection on Architecture.

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The next brief had the theme of Architecture. We had to pick a style of buildings or just one building to build a collection of 20 designs. I chose St. Pauls Cathedral in London, I choose this because of the gorgeous detailing, colour and the many steps, and because of Princess Diana's marriage to Prince Charles. Which I thought was very relevant considering I was doing a bridal collection.

A - Mesh draped across a sweetheart bodice with a tiered skirt inspired by the many steps outside.

B - A short low v - veck bodice. A exaggerated peplum over a wired cage. Inspired by the dome.

C - A strapless, boned tiered dress inspired by the steps.

D - This is my favourite. A strapless coloumn dress(inspired by the coloums!) with a wired cage around the waist to the knee, inspired by the dome.

E - A slight fishtail dress with a mesh shawl with embroidered coloured thread inspired by the colours and detailing on the roof. 

My 'Enchanted' collection by Sophie Elizabeth

I know these aren't illustrations but I thought I'd share with you the collection I made in college - July 2012.

We were given an open brief for our FMP (Final Major Project)in our second year for our fashion show garments. Being as girly as I am, I chose Butterflies for my theme. I chose quite girly colours, and very light organza overlaying material with cotton underneath. I chose to do two short dresses with a small butterfly at the back with two flowing organza pieces for the butterflies wings. My main blue dress was a long dress with two wing shaped pieces at the back which attached to the finger and then could be lifted up. Inspired by Victoria's Secret wings.

I love prom/evening dresses so I based my theme around my own criteria. We start from the beginning going through each process.. choosing a theme, creating a sketchbook with tons of research, drawing up 20 designs, choosing 3, making our own dress patterns, toiling (mocking) them up in calico, sourcing our own fabrics and then, sewing them up for real.

 We then look at the business side of a collection, and create our own statement supporting our collection, doing a photoshoot, creating our own swing tags and business cards and doing illustrations of our garments. This all comes together for our end of year exhibition, which is where we have our own space of a room and can bring in props and lights etc which is open to the public. After this is the end of year show, which is a fashion show showcasing BTEC year 1's work, BTEC year 2's collection, Foundation Degree year 1's work and Foundation DEgree year 2's collection. This is an amazing show, where we can pick our own music suitable to our collection and students also help model garments or help dress the models. Here is a link to my collection on the catwalk! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwNk20sAK4

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'Street Style' by Sophie Elizabeth

This is my own design. I have used the fabrics, colours and garments from people I have seen around London to create one outfit. The top is a loose chiffon v - neck, with pleats and hawiiaan colours (blue, yellow and green). Which is tucked into a mustard PVC pencil skirt. With blue nails and shoes.

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Collection taken from a fashion weeks trend.

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This weeks theme, we had to take a trend we have seen off the catwalk this Autumn and choose a high street company and 'diffuse' the trend down to what you think would appear in that chosen store.

I chose the trend 'Blush Pink' with sharp tailoring in the garments. I know I haven't used colour in my designs but I tried and I just couldnt get the right certain Blush colour and I knew I wouldnt be able to do the exact same colour for each design. 

My chosen store was Topshop. Probably at least 3 others in my class will have chosen it too. However, I could really see Topshop having very sharp tailoring yet simple, pink feminine garments and can have some unusual stuff in there.

A - A round neck bodice with simple bust darts with a simple very fitted pencil skirt and a slight split in the leg.

B - A halter neck bodice with simple bust darts again, but with a fitted mini skirt and a flared peplum style hem to it.

C - A white bodice, with a geometric style skirt inspired by flower's petals.

D - A cropped polo neck jumper, teamed with a elegant very fitted pencil skirt.

Couture Bridal inspired by Roses!

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This collection had to be based on Couture Roses this week. As I want to specify as much i can into bridal, I thought this theme would be perfect to do it.

I used the Roses for embellishment, embroidery, detailing, draping and the colour. I tried to step out of my comfort zones (just designing dresses I like) and these photos are the 6/20 of the ones I found the most different. 

A - This dress was inspired by 1950's. Its a short lilac dress with lots of tulle. It has fabric roses embroidered on the bodice, a satin waistband and cascading roses into the skirt.

B - Off the shoulder dress, with a fitted bodice and a rose detailing on the left corner with gathers of the skirt falling away from it.

C - This is my favourite. A vintage feel to it. A boho chic inspired dress. Very thin straps with a slightly gathered skirt with fabric roses all around the hem. Completely backless. 

D - This is a very prom dress inspired one. Very short pink dress, with a big tulle skirt. It has fabric roses on the bodice.

E - Another boho/garden wedding inspired one. Loose cami top to it, with thin straps. A fitted skirt going into a slight fishtail, and forest coloured (blue, green, pink, yellow, purple, orange) roses around each joining.

F - A high/low pink dress, with very exaggerated hem line. Fabric roses cover the inside of the skirt.

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Spring/summer 2014 forecast!

A very feminine take on Androgynous! Very sharp tailoring and permanent pleats in pastels, looking its best teamed with fluorescent shoes and bags! 

Tudor Rock Bridal Collection

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This collection is based on the theme of mixing Classic Tudor with Heavy Rock. I found this weeks theme quite challenging and it took me all week to create 20 designs. As I am doing bridal it was hard to create elegant dresses with two of the most different topics.

A - This is one of my favourites. A massive tudor neck piece, attached to a very short rock inspired hemline. With heavy pleats and lots of netting underneath.

B - This is another of my favourites. A gold plated neck piece, attached to a very big, structured dress with a wide skirt, and a rocky thigh high split showing off studded thigh boots.

C - A very tudor dress, with a square neckline, wide sleeves, and red hems. A rocky hemline and red hems covered in studs.

D - A a-symmetrical dress with a very small jacket with connecting ruffled neck piece.

E - A fitted midi dress with square neckline, 3/4 sleeves, studded hems, and a neck ruffle used as a peplum.

F - A more simple dress, with a boned corset bodice and a neck ruffle as a peplum.