fedisa, graduate collection show . hello

 

e i g h t   o u t f i t s   .   e i g h t   m o n t h s   .   3   m i n u t e s   o f   s p o t  l i g h t

so . the long awaited exposure of {southern comfort} a graduate collection by Jenna Maree-Kipling has arrived .

The Fedisa Graduate Collection Show was held at the Cape Town Stadium, on Saturday the 5th November. 26 graduate collections, with a wonderful first year collaboration and a second year group effort. This year, we were lucky enough to have the Pink Collection - the creations of the current second year students for Breast Cancer awareness. Fedisa turned pink.

i have been working on my collection pieces throughout the year, but it has been the week that has really brought everything together. I made handbags, jewellry and head pieces. So in the end, my colour pallet choice was key on trend ;)

faded denims . destressed denims . white . peacock feathers . leather
very indie rock and roll

So, all in all. I cannot explain the feeling that follows you when you walk out onto that runway. It is one of accomplishment, happiness, pride and self worth. I could not believe I put that collection together. It was amazing.

thank you to every single person who congratulated me. thank you to those who came to the show to watch me. my Maree-Kipling-Timpson-Fitzel-Kirk-Rohland-Martin-Munro-George-Daniels-Prentice-Van-Straaten family . my home family and my extended family, I love you all.

this post will carry on over the next few as I will be receiving more photographs from other sources, but this is just a taste of what is to come.

{peace and love}

fedisa, hello. a graduates update .



picture one . the new fedisa campaign with nicci st. bruce of VAMP

picture two . drapery assignment inspired by a vintage modern alice in wonderland tea party

picture three . all the copis markers in the world, lent to us for our last assignment

picture four . our last assignment . music inspiration for story boards . indus - lotas mirage

picture five . berini going to hosiptal

picture six . dexter, my lunch buddy at fedisa

picture seven . celebrity wedding . kate moss and john depp

picture eight . casper in my bath . so rude

picture nine . miss k, the p.a at fedisa, jumping rope with lydia's 25 m long plait for her final garment in her collection . we spent almost an hour braiding fifteen pieces of 25 m string

picture ten . fedisa wall of fame . third year students cook book works

graduate collection done . only have my couture wedding dress left to create . three weeks of hard, slave type work and then comes the crit seesions and alterations, prepping for the runway show . all very exciting!

lets be honest here, quick. don't ask to see the collection pictures yet please. come to the show and be blown away . until then now more images will be seen on this blog .

{ peace makers and lovers }

tough week? bring it.

t h i s   a r t   t h e   e n d 

don't want to chat, just want to blog.

  

such a long week . . .  already and it's Tuesday. sneaking away ten minutes from my assignments to sneakily sneak in a outfit post. Stressign about next year and what's going to happen . . . but just want my Graduate Collection to pull together now. One more outfit, and a couture wedding dress to go, then DONE!

The very last ART week ever at fedisa.

Being a Third Year is pretty intense, but it's almost over now. BUT I'm in a bad mood because all the work is coming thick and fast, and I feel that nothing is getting finished.

tough week . tough people . feeling a bit hurt by 'friends' but looking forward to a very special group of Triplets 21st birthday event on Sunday. Glad to have some true friends surrounding me that make me happy with just a cup of filter coffee with foam :)

Thank for the love, okes.

what I'm wearing

denims - RE:Jeans, Woolworths (DIY Distressed over the years)

Floral patterned shirt - Mr Price

Black Satin Blazer - Mr Price

Leopard print heels - Luella
peacock feather necklace - Diva

{ peace && love }

winter has made it's way to us

thought it had forgotten us down here. but, alas, it has arrived. and with a kick too.

college has kept me so busy, I haven't found much tome to actually write. I miss it. My days go by with me continuously thinking about postings and statuses for facebook, and how I can tweet my way through the days.

lets recap this year so far . . .

fedisa is insane, so much of hard work . so little time

basic wrap up of the past four months.

I will be doing my twenty one day internship at Vintage Lifestyle Magazine

which I am very excited about . . . will be being published, involved and will see all that happens in a magazine, just an online version. this will be during my June/July holiday

at the same time, I will have to make my forth outfit for {s o u t h e r n   c o m f o r t}

the whole collection thing is hard . working for thirty seven hours without a wink of sleep isn't fun, and then add the stress of six deadlines to that lack of sleep, and then the occasional attack of hunger . . . third year is no joyride. student life, pfffft.

today I had time to put together my first outfit post in a while . . . just another student outfit . . .

what I'm wearing

leatherette bomber - identity

cabel knit jersey - hand me down

blue pinstrip camisole - pick n pay

satin leggings, leopard print scarf - woolworths

legwarmers - gift

brown amber ring - gift from my mommy

turquoise round ring, turquiose stone bracelet - gift from my love

pendant necklace - methology

pochahontas boots - china town market

okay, lets talk why I'm wearing what I am . . . stripes . spots. because I want to :) Because I can.

don't be afraid of mixing your prints. prints are going to be hot this season, but don't bore the world with your impersonal style - dress for yourself, and dress because you want to. stop reading through other peoples blogs/websites and trend forecasts - be inspired by what you see on the street, be inspired by the world around you. take pictures, fill your mind with beautiful places, beautiful people and eat beautiful food.

that's the most important tip for winter - forget looking skinny, thin, slim and whatever other task you set for your body. eat what you want. It's only for three more months anyway.

we have fat days. as feminine forms, it's only natural.

my mommy always reminds me . . .

"you may be having a fat day, but to the rest of the world you look exactly the same as you did yesterday"

{peace and love, peace and love}

runnaway weeks

I have no idea where all my time is going, but hours are blending into weeks within a blink of an eye, a intake of breath. one day ends without any hesitation . . . and time is running out.

so far, I have made 4 and a half garments for my graduate collection,

{s o u t h e r n   c o m f o r t}

two pairs of jeans

a corset

&&

a chiffon tank

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the half is an unfainshed cape jacket bolero that was too thick to fit through the machine and have to rethink it. not fun I tell you.

have been hand sewing my life away with binding the chiffon tank this past weekend, so all I have done to keep the mind occupied is watch tv, which, as most fashion students will know and feel the same way, is quiet a luxury.

I have rewatched Lady Gaga - The Monster Ball, Live at Madison Square Gardens, the HBO Special  at least twice . . .

I get ripped off for liking her so much . . . people laugh? quiet rude in fact.

she is an inspiration to every living person.

she has opened the world to excepting the 'not normal' the different, the strange . . .

" . . . whether you're gay, straight or bi . . ."
born this way is an incredable, inspirational song that lets people be themselves and hopefully be happy with that person . . .

what I think a lot of people who dismiss her, only do so because they cannot fathom the idea that a pop star to have such influence on the regular population. maybe it's because she is encouraging people to be themselves and not what they think others want them to me . . .

just a thought . . .

I will post pictures soon, just busy finishing off some things.

have a good week ;)

{p e a c e   &   l o v e}

fabric fantasy. finally.

I have got my fabric choices sorted. I am so excited! Just want to start sewing now! I am now set in my ways for my Graduate Collection of

{s o u t h e r n  c o m f o r t} by J E N N A   M A R E E - K I P L I N G

at fedisa 2011.

Yesterday, I spent ages trawling the hundreds of racks of beautiful fabrics and materials at the Wynberg Fabric World. Unlike almost every other time I have been to a fabric shop, I actually enjoyed my hour and a half there. At other places, such as Fabric City in Sir Lowery Road, Cape Town, Lynn's Fabric in the Arcade in Fish Hoek Main Road and Global Textiles in Wynberg, I always feel like they are rushing me, trying to get my out of the shop as soon as they can, and most of the 'cutters' are rude and short tempered with students. My experience yesterday was the most pleasant time I have ever ever had at a material shop, including my lovely little shop on Fish Hoek Main Road, Global Textiles.

Blaise, my cutter, was so patient, giving me advise on the quality of the fabric I had chosen and making sure I knew the prices of them too. He wondered around the massive store with me from the moment I walked in, till I took all my stuff to the purchasing counter.

This picture is my lovely cutter rolling up my 24 meters of the fabulous gauzy Indian Cotton, after unrolling it to count. With a smile. UNHEARD of for a fabric shop on a Saturday Morning.

Now that all the prep work for the collection is handed in, and nobody can change anything now - I can happily tell about mine :) We have had a long term, with another two weeks to go before we sent sail on creating our miracles . . . so here is my finalised choices of my graduate collection. I'm so excited to start sewing!

t h e   c o l o u r   c h o i c e s   f o r   {southern comfort}

crisp cloud white

stone wash

deep sky blue

cloudy sky blue

brown cow

turquoise

t h e   f a b r i c   c h o i c e s   f o r  {southern comfort}

crisp white cloud India cotton

crisp cloud white shirting

deep sky blue stretch denim

stone wash denim

deep sky blue denim

cloudy sky blue denim

brown cow leatherette, vinyl

brown cow poly cotton for lining

turquoise stone

r e f a b r i c a t i o n   f o r  {southern comfort}

at fedisa, they are BIG on this refabrication story. It's the application of additional elements to a piece of fabric, that 'up's the design quality' of the original bought  fabric.

I am using the deep sky blue original stretch denim that has a weft of white that forms a pin strip

and refabrication to transform the denim into {southern comfort} approved material :)

D E S T R E S S I N G

{front left to right, basic discriptions}

1. pot scourer, kitchen counter cleaner, ripped with a bread knife, spashed with salt and lemon juice and left in the sun

2. stone destressed, bashed between two pebble river stones

3. soaked in priapic and turmeric, then burned with a gas stove.

4. splashed with vodka and salt, then dripped candle wax on it, let it dry and ironed it off

5. grated with a rough side of a cheese grater

B L E A C H I N G

 

{left to right, basic descriptions . . . not going to tell you all of my secrets}

1. hth (clorine) pool clearer, with hot water

*note to self: do not pour kettle directly on to clorine tablet while standing over the sink.

2. full bleaching, with bleach and water - 5:1

3. tie dying, 7:1, in between washed with soap and hot water

Am very excited (so I have said three times) and just want to get started . . .

by the by, have you got any questions about fedisa or about my third year?

Always nice to have a lil interaction :)

have a fantastic week, cause trouble and have fun, take pictures and remember - let yourself be inspired by different sources :)

{peace & love}