Another week of pleasure

What an amazing day today, just got back from the beach, koegel bay.  Stunning weather and friends.  The sun and beach make me feel like a new person, and I can carry on with another busy week at Fedisa.  We making a pencil skirt tomorrow, with a vent.  On friday I went to the Design Indaba at the CTICC, a highlight of the year, I really love it.  And I found a new designer that I have fallen in love with!! She's a jewellery designer, and the range is called "Papillon Belle".  Its a range of butterfly pendants, encased in a thin layer of glass and rimmed off in silver.  She uses real butterfly wings, from dead butterflies that come from Madagascar.  They are amazing, and they stay as beautiful as they are the day you buy it.  The real beauty about it is the fact that the wing is different from the bottom to the top of the wing.


So just a little something to keep you wanting it as much as I do!!
                                                           *K
http://www.papillonbelle.com/

Art week just passed, we busy finalising our 3rd year range designs, im so excited, being able to make what we like, but now when I have the chance, I'm not sure what I actualy want to do.  But I will get back to you on that.  So during the December holidays I had a little market day for all my designs I had made the holiday.  It was mostly swimming costumes and dresses, but I loved everything.  And actualy as I'm sitting here Im wearing one of the dresses, a little white triangle shaped dress, with a delicate black lace hem.  Im adding a few of the photos of the day, I even baked cupcakes and had some champagne, to make a day of it. Often people ask me what I do and if I study? and I say I study fashion at Fedisa, and I feel proud to say it, because firstly not many people know about it, and Its an amazing place to be.  To wake up every morning knowing I'm going to learn something new in a practical field makes every day a great day.  I've been at University before and I dreaded sitting in the classes listening to people talk, but now I know what I'm doing and I wouldn't do anything else.  I am defiantly in the right place and loving it at Fedisa.  

Birthday week

It was my birthday on Friday yet another year older, but what an amazing end to a hectic week.  We just finished a tailored jacket, mine was of a light tan colour, with shell buttons.  I will put up a picture at a later stage.  So as I said it was my birthday Friday, and I celebrated it on signal hill with sundowners and some amazing friends.  And of course with birthdays, come the gifts.  And something that was very inspirational was actualy a gift bag that had a cute quote on from the stunning designer Coco Chanel, and she said "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different".  I do think this is a quote to go by.  And its my inspiration for the week, to just be unique.
K* 

my life in fashion

Studying has never been a question in my life, I knew from the start what I wanted to do.
And that is now what I do. Im doing my degree in fashion at Fedisa.
Firstly anyone who says anything to do with fashion is easy, is a liar, it is a hard industry to be in, competitive in all ways possible.  Just looking at the others in my class, the work they create is amazing!
So 2 weeks into my 3rd year and i just realised what a year this is going to be...my 3rd year range is coming up, Ive only just finalised my theme for my range, and now I have so many thoughts in my head, from designs to fabric, shoes, styles and even the hat to fit the models head.
My theme is called "faded away", its a mix of beach wear you would wear on a cold stormy day and a 40's French village women. 
A lot of tie-dying and pretty dresses are going to be seen in my designs and intricate little details.
But who knows, maybe at the end of the year and you're still reading my blog, it can be a whole new theme...
*k