Okey, here´s the thing... I´ve found a course, a 1 year course which is perfect for me!
Fashion Consultant, at UtdanningsHuset.
I´ll learn about colors, how to dress different body-shapes, some marketing and etc. Perfect! and it´s just one year!! BUT! it´s in Oslo.
What I realized in Falmouth was that; Sure, I´d love to be a Fashion Designer! I know I can do it, I knew I could have made it on the course but it wasn´t the right thing for me... If I had chosen to work with this, I´d have to give up a large part of myself and my values in life.
If I could have chosen right this moment, I´d get a full-time job, find myself an apartment and get a car again. Later I´d start a family.
Making Fashion, wouldn´t make me happy. Having my name out there, it wouldn´t make me happy. Having loads of money, at the end it wouldn´t make me happy.
My own happiness and family values is something more important. I´ve lost myself so many times in the last 9 years, and I´ve finally settled down with who I am and where I want to be... I don´t want to have to give that away to make someone else happy again... I just wont.
but then again, an education will help me along the way, but I´m also thinking that I can climb in the industry from the bottom to the top.
I´m just a little at loss of what to do
~Camilla
Friday 17 February 2012
Back To Norway
Hello everyone <3
A lot has happened since last time... A lot.
I´ve had a tough time lately, I have ended my course in Britain and has gone back home.
Fashion Design is not my call in life, I know that now. However I know that Fashion is my call, but not in the form of Designing and Producing, I fit better as a form of a Stylist, Fashion consultant, or Store manager.
I love fashion and I love working with people.
I´m going to need some time at home before making any decisions, as I´m not at my best at the moment.
Love to you all
~Camilla
A lot has happened since last time... A lot.
I´ve had a tough time lately, I have ended my course in Britain and has gone back home.
Fashion Design is not my call in life, I know that now. However I know that Fashion is my call, but not in the form of Designing and Producing, I fit better as a form of a Stylist, Fashion consultant, or Store manager.
I love fashion and I love working with people.
I´m going to need some time at home before making any decisions, as I´m not at my best at the moment.
Love to you all
~Camilla
Wednesday 16 November 2011
Conceptual Monochrome Shirtdress Project 2011
Ahh... Projects!
Our first project as Fashion students, I got it 4 weeks ago though... I´m a slow updater, gomenasai!
um, well... this is a conceptual project where we were given the words Sportswear Couture (For the Performance Sportswear students), Hyperculture and Cinematic.
I chose Cinematic after a slow start on the research, and chose to look at Iconic women (actresses if you please) and I´m going to make a shirtdress inspired by these women.
What I´ve done is to look at their lives, and found that they all had this kind of veil between their media life and their personal life. So I´ve gone into that concept with the veil... so I´m going to use fabrics like lace, silks and chiffon. I might post some of the designs once they´re done.
I´ve also been busy with workshops these past weeks, learning to construct different patterns related to our shirt projects... just so we know what we CAN do and what we CAN´T do. We´ve done the same with our sewing workshops, we have had inductions to various sewing machines and damn do we have a lot of fancy stuff!
We have a buttonhole machine, where you can plot in the size of the buttonhole and which style it´s going to be in... and voila! finished, perfectly cut buttonhole in seconds!
we also have a blind-seam machine, which I love because Blind-seams are a pain in the ass to do by hand. And our Irish Embroidery machine <3 haven´t tested that one, but I sure will!
Our first project as Fashion students, I got it 4 weeks ago though... I´m a slow updater, gomenasai!
um, well... this is a conceptual project where we were given the words Sportswear Couture (For the Performance Sportswear students), Hyperculture and Cinematic.
I chose Cinematic after a slow start on the research, and chose to look at Iconic women (actresses if you please) and I´m going to make a shirtdress inspired by these women.
What I´ve done is to look at their lives, and found that they all had this kind of veil between their media life and their personal life. So I´ve gone into that concept with the veil... so I´m going to use fabrics like lace, silks and chiffon. I might post some of the designs once they´re done.
I´ve also been busy with workshops these past weeks, learning to construct different patterns related to our shirt projects... just so we know what we CAN do and what we CAN´T do. We´ve done the same with our sewing workshops, we have had inductions to various sewing machines and damn do we have a lot of fancy stuff!
We have a buttonhole machine, where you can plot in the size of the buttonhole and which style it´s going to be in... and voila! finished, perfectly cut buttonhole in seconds!
we also have a blind-seam machine, which I love because Blind-seams are a pain in the ass to do by hand. And our Irish Embroidery machine <3 haven´t tested that one, but I sure will!
Tuesday 1 November 2011
RAGE!!!
Oh my god... The Fashion course teachers makes my last course in Norway look like shit.
I have now realized that everything I´ve "learned" about Pattern Cutting and Construction is wrong... or rather Chihoko, my pattern-cutting-construction teacher, is teaching it in a way that I can actually understand! I, make my own patterns in seconds now! it´s like a children's game!
And at Årstad they should change the name from Design and Textiles to Sewing and Textiles... THEY-DO-NOT-KNOW-ANYTHING-ABOUT-DESIGN!!!
There are no real research, no back story behind the garments, no follow-up from the teachers, nothing!!!
and there is no knowledge passed on about how to design a collection, they don´t focus on the students - finding their VOICE.... because in design, at least in fashion design, you have a voice/style, you can instantly see who designed the collection because it has a slight breath of the designers voice in them (wow, I sound poetic)
anyway.... I think I´m done now xD
I have now realized that everything I´ve "learned" about Pattern Cutting and Construction is wrong... or rather Chihoko, my pattern-cutting-construction teacher, is teaching it in a way that I can actually understand! I, make my own patterns in seconds now! it´s like a children's game!
And at Årstad they should change the name from Design and Textiles to Sewing and Textiles... THEY-DO-NOT-KNOW-ANYTHING-ABOUT-DESIGN!!!
There are no real research, no back story behind the garments, no follow-up from the teachers, nothing!!!
and there is no knowledge passed on about how to design a collection, they don´t focus on the students - finding their VOICE.... because in design, at least in fashion design, you have a voice/style, you can instantly see who designed the collection because it has a slight breath of the designers voice in them (wow, I sound poetic)
anyway.... I think I´m done now xD
Monday 31 October 2011
Halloween!
OMG! me and some of my Campus flatmates decided to have a little evening with Halloween gaming today D:
We ended up playing Amnesia... oh my god that game is scary when you play it in the dark ;O;
So the ones who were left in my flat were probably wondering why there was screams coming from my bedroom xD
Oh well, we didn´t get too far in the game though.... we´ll probably game more later on >83
We ended up playing Amnesia... oh my god that game is scary when you play it in the dark ;O;
So the ones who were left in my flat were probably wondering why there was screams coming from my bedroom xD
Oh well, we didn´t get too far in the game though.... we´ll probably game more later on >83
Hi!! ... again
Um, as you see... I can´t really decide how my blogs are going to be, so I keep making new ones. But I promise I will keep this one, it looks very me and it looks professional for a change.
Now, I have now spent over a month here at University College Falmouth and my god do we have a lot to do... I have 2-3 briefs or tasks to complete within Fashion Drawing classes, one 5 week assignment in Fashion Design, and 2 briefs/tasks to complete in HATS... which is short for Histories and Theories Studies.
We share classes and classroom with both Preformance and Sportswear designers and Fashion Photographers, which is quite interesting and very inspiring! Considering that we will be working side by side with the Fashion Photographers, which will give both fabulous portfolios.
Besides that, I have to brag a little about my teachers here <3
We have John Boddy, who worked with THE Alexander McQueen in his earlier career as his assistant! can you believe that!?
I also have Jane Gottelier who together with her husband Patrick Gottelier, has run a company and founded this course 5 years ago.
We have Chihoko, my Japanese pattern constructor. She is simply adorable, I love her classes!
and many many more! I learn so much, and I am super exited about the following years here <3
Now, I have now spent over a month here at University College Falmouth and my god do we have a lot to do... I have 2-3 briefs or tasks to complete within Fashion Drawing classes, one 5 week assignment in Fashion Design, and 2 briefs/tasks to complete in HATS... which is short for Histories and Theories Studies.
We share classes and classroom with both Preformance and Sportswear designers and Fashion Photographers, which is quite interesting and very inspiring! Considering that we will be working side by side with the Fashion Photographers, which will give both fabulous portfolios.
Besides that, I have to brag a little about my teachers here <3
We have John Boddy, who worked with THE Alexander McQueen in his earlier career as his assistant! can you believe that!?
I also have Jane Gottelier who together with her husband Patrick Gottelier, has run a company and founded this course 5 years ago.
We have Chihoko, my Japanese pattern constructor. She is simply adorable, I love her classes!
and many many more! I learn so much, and I am super exited about the following years here <3
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