Are you ready?
Hit the ground running.
Sit STITCHING.
Start Stitching.
Keep Selling.
Call your mother.
Thoughts in head. 3 weeks since last post? Sorry. Been sewing. I said that to my judges in fourth year. I had referenced a store in Toronto that had since declared bankruptcy after a short run. Information I had no clue about... because I was sewing.
Some things never change. Yet everything is changing and it's exhilarating. Anyway. Finished fantasy tanks. Finished a new dress, named ISIS. Finished skirts that were based on the linings of the West Side Story Dress, therefore named 'The Maria Skirt.' I made 4 out of this really incredible gold denim with some red organza zigzagging and grey leather hem and 5 out of my purple camo corduroy with a silk pink hem. They are gonna be at Silk & Feathers tomorrow!!! Pictures will be coming of these things in the near future.
The house dress is taking a rest because she just got really big and a touch overwhelming before completing. A healthy rest will make her stronger.
Rest and creativity kind of go hand in hand but somewhat reluctantly. The creative spirit needs its rest, but is the last to admit it because the whole point is to do something or be proactive in some kind of way. However even the creative spirit needs to stop and re-energize. That time is spent researching, experiencing. The best metaphor would be rain. The Evaporation is that rest and the soaking up into the brain all the moisture possible. Then the condensation is that collecting of the ideas into the tangible, the product, the song, the building ... and then the outpouring- precipitation the work and the marketing of said ideas.
Then that's all of course a process once your shit's on a table. You show your friends, your design confidents and the leaves grow. The harvests.
Ok too many metaphors. Back to dresses. I'm focusing on breaking down the elements of the bigger dresses and making the little pieces of artwork for more everyday wear. We have relationships with our clothes, and they are developed by experience and history. You can't have your favorite blank if you don't wear it. If it's not with you when you break up with your boyfriend or get engaged or go see your new favorite musical. You rely on those pieces. The shitty day can turn around when you're comforted by the top that makes you feel like a princess (or any character role that allows you to assume your power).
Point made: I want my clothes to help you assume the power within you, use it and push it and tell the world because it IS glorious!
I love you all.
