London- 2

The hangers on the wall on Carnaby Street reminded me of my balloon shoot  i did for the La Baloon Rouge

The Peter Pilotto dress I loooove!

Earls Court roof

On our second day in London we went fabric shopping near Shepard's bush and we found that it was much cheaper than if we went to Soho. I got a few samples for my garment and I cam across the fabric crepe which I really like, as its good for draping but yet its still strong. From there we headed down to Soho stopping off at Carnaby Street and Liberty, I love Carnaby street as I think its just a little bit different compared to Oxford Street and Regent Street. In Liberty's we spotted Mark from Take That which meant I had to text my Mum straight away as he's her favourite haha! Also I came across lots of things I would love to own like that Peter Pilotto dress that I blogged about a few weeks ago, its even more beautiful in real life!!! I also liked seeing the Martin Mirgella collection in person as I found it really inspiring for my own work because of the way its constructed. 

After that full packed day we had some spare time were we just went for food and walked around the shops a little bit. Then we had the J.W.Anderson X Topshop Collection preview at the Oxford Street flagship store, It was really good to experience! We basically got to buy the collection the night before it went on sale to everyone else. Yes that meant I had to treat myself to my favourite pieces but in all honesty I liked most of the collection and I think its very wearable and on trend. I treated my self to a black pinafore and check shirt which I have lived in since I bought! We even got little goody bags which had some Topshop nail varnishes in which are cute and on trend. There were drinks and biscuits floating around as well with some good music playing which really set mood and got everyone hyped for the new collection. I had a good night and really enjoyed myself so thank you Grasiza for the opportunity! 

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Presentation- J.W.Anderson

As part of our brief we had to do a 5 minute presentation in front of our peers on an illustrator or artist of our choice (surely it's not that hard huh? Well..)

I chose J.W.Anderson purely because I had seen his new collaboration with Topshop, I had no idea about him until it came to researching. I found out an awful lot of interesting things about him like he was originally studying Drama at Washington DC, his first collection at LFW was in 2007 and was influenced by real insects in jewellery and so on. I also looked into the different medias he uses in his illustrations and the way he draws and where he gets his inspiration from.

One of Andersons illustration and garment

I set my work out in a powerpoint and had a number of different slides which included a video as well. I found an excuse from doing this presentation to buy a piece from the Topshop X J.W.Anderson collection, I really really wanted to get the Bat Jumper but it seems to be out of stock constantly so I'm still on the hunt for it which meant I had to settle with the Tortoise Print Skirt which is still just as nice!

Me wearing my J.W.Anderson Topshop skirt

I found him very interesting and I would like to maybe look into him further looking at other things.

Inspiration for my powerpoint in my sketch book

I think my overall presentation went well and it really wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be! (drama queen here) I feel like I delivered it well and I managed to keep the audience interested for 10 minutes when it really only needed to be 5 minutes long so I'm really pleased with that. My peers also gave me some feed back which the majority said I spoke clearly, it was very informative, good use of imagery, confident and enthusiastic and they liked me skirt (bonus). They also gave me some weaknesses and they said that I could have made better eye contact with all of the class as I seemed to only do it with one side which I did notice after I had finished, they also said I need to keep the volume of my voice cons tasted as I drifted in parts, I think this was down to nerves. 

I think if I was to do another presentation I would be much more confident about what I was doing and I would take into account the feed back I've been given.

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