Cold early mornings

"Perfectly Perfect" by Elizabeth and the Catapult

The morning is about to end in about two hours and I already found two awesomeness: this video which is so cute and funny, and a japanese designer who is just amazing... Everlasting Sprout... check it out, his designs are very artistic and he creates very appealing figures: a mix between classic, mori-girl and modern design using mostly wool and organic fabrics.

by Everlasting Sprout

I had a very very very long and exhausted week, very! Nonetheless, yesterday I brought home two of my friends to finish the photoshoot for the expo I have next month at my fashion design course. It was an extremely cold morning -which was perfect really- but we freeze taking all the pictures in my backyard and the weak sun did not help much. Anyway, the pictures turned out awesome and I learnt a lot about how to organize a photoshoot and what kind of directions give to the model, etc...

from my last collection "L'Obscurité": "Dew" dress.
model: Mik Belmonte Photography: myself

What else? Well, I'll go back to my knitting... it's being a long time since I last made an amigurumi and I really miss doing it. So, I'll start again, or try at least... I still have a pile of homework for Uni... no matter, I'll make an effort, knitting is one of my relaxing activities so I MUST go back to it before I go mad with all the other stuff. creepy smile*
So, have a great weekend! :)

Today I've learn: getting up really early helps to discovering new things!
Hugs and smiles.
Safi.

Alter Diseño: REVOLUTION!

"Elena"
(Prototype)

"Lyra"
(1st design)

Backstage

"Joanne"
(2nd design)

"Éowyn"
(3rd design)

Backstage

"Julie Bonaparte"

Well, here they are, my own designs for the past runway show.
The theme for this runway was "revolution" and I took it from the point of view of leaders, the people who are at the top of a revolution and put their face with courage in front of their people's enemy. And so, I created three dresses for three different female leaders: the first one "Lyra" represents the nasty part of the revolution, the moment people start to fight and everything is exposed to the world to hear. The second design "Joanne", represents the second stage of this revolution, when the fight and the courage turns vital because one fail movement can change everything... for bad or for good. And the third dress "Éowyn", is the complete female leader, the leader that achieved victory after a long long long fight, she is the revolution.
The dress at the top (the white one with red) is the prototype that every designer had to make, it was like the try-out of the whole collection and it was exposed at the beggining of the runway. The idea of it was representing the people behind the leaders, the people that leave their blood for the cause.
And, the last picture (at the bottom) is the dress I made for the photoshoot and represents the voice of the revolution.

I had the best of fun doing all this designs, I learnt a loooot from everyone involved in the runway (designers, photographers, models) and I felt really well, I felt complete... very complete. It was the best to watch the models with my designs on the runway, after so much work it was beautiful and so emotional. Oh, I do hope I can become a reconigsed designer... I'll work for it! :)

What else?? Oh, well, I'm designing an other dress, one for my new haute couture collection... it's a lot of work but it's getting soooo freakiing cool!
And, I bought a new camara, a beautiful Fujifilm S1600 that's my new best mate! I have this huge need of take photographs of everything.

I'll post more later... some random things perhaps.
Today I've learn: I love my watercolours!
Hugs and kisses.
Safi.

Great news!!!

It's been a while since I last wrote here... I didn'have much to update except my complains for this hot Summer. But, just an hour ago I recieved the best news so far, and I immediately thought I should write somewhere all about it .
My Design teacher sent me this e-mail with all the info about the coming runway show all his students' gonna have and, within all its timetables there was the date of the runway: May 14th. I probably should remind you that I only started with Fashion Designing last year (I always loved drawing outfits but never took it seriously) and I'm already in this group my teacher created for Independent Designers... so, guess my surprise and happiness regarding all this matter!!!

I must immediately get to work, look for inspiration, choose the colours, the music, make-up, everything to create the perfect Autumn-Winter Collection 2011 in this planet!!! Well, maybe not so much but at least to create a really good A/W Collection... but who knows, maybe it can be the best in this planet. Ok, I'm daydreaming again. Back to earth... a bit.

Alright pals, this is the big news I got to write about. Hope you can join my happiness! I'll try to update all about my A/W Collection as much as I can, illustrations, inspiration, photography, anything that comes to mind at the moment of the creation.

Have a nice week!!!
Today I've learn: sewing books for too long make you fingers ache.
Kisses and smiles.
Safi.

December is AWESOME!

I always had a thing for December, for me it has always been the best month of the year because classes finished and in came Christmas and New Year. But this year, I think, it has been the best December of my life. Why?
Well, I just had my very first Fashion Show, not a whole collection but a dress in the collection we made with my partners at the Fashion Designing Course I attend. The theme was CIRCUS and I came with the idea of a Fortune Teller, the ones from the old Circus, the ones from the 1930s and, well, this was the result:

(Modeled by Guada Moyano)

I'm very very very happy with the dress, very! It was kind of difficult at first because the design I made was complicated, but everything turned out great!!
More news, well, just yesterday my teacher from the course sent me an email asking me if I wanted to be part of a group he created for Independent Designers... OMG!!! You can't imagine how loud I shout!!! I mean, I just started this year with the course and with sewing... I've always liked drawing clothes and stuff like that in my illustrations and now, and now, and now. I inmediately said yes, even though next year is gonna be busier than this, it is an oportunity I can not let pass, right??
Well, I'm so happy.

What else?? I made this video about Espon-Illustration, which is an idea I've been working on lately about drawing anywhere with anything you have on hand.
(Here's the link)

And, what else?? I'm doing amigurumis right now, I'll keep doing them 'cause it's a lot of fun and very relaxing ^^ Then I'll post something... oh, about all the sweet food I'm gonna cook for this Christmas.

Goodbye for now.
Today I've learn: I really really really love Mori girls' style.

XOXO
Safiri.

What a strange world...

Yes, it is.
This is a comic by Liniers... I loooooooove them!!! He's a genious and his humour is great! He always draws this kind of strange characters with this strange lines; it's just awesome!!

Today?? Nothing out of the ordinary... Yesterday?? Well, a friend made me think I had a crush on my Scenography teacher (who's actually not a teacher but a student-teacher!)... anyways, it made me think a lot. About?? hum, can't say... this is not a bloody secret diary, God! Anyways... today we're gonna have pizza for dinner (which I adore!) and tomorrow I'll have my favourite classes: Fashion Designing and English. Oh, by the way, a native teacher from England is coming to teach us for like a month or so, I'm so nervous and so excited!!! ^^

People, today is Earth's Day! So please please please, at least, think a minute about it, about our beloved planet, our mother nature. Think, please, in all the things you do to help her and what else you can do. Please, think and do something. We have to keep it green and alive and great.


Today I've learn: Chocolate does cure the heart... sometimes.

XOXO
Safi

It is very early!!

Hum, Hello there!! Well, I haven't post since... well, some time. So sorry. Uni got me too fast with a lot of things to do and I didn't want to be left behind.

Today, fellas, is the eighteenth birthday of a very important friend of mine. She is one of the friends I met through internet, through Narnia. I think it was two or three or four years ago when I met her and Meer and we liked each other almost immediatly; then we met Suki and after that we met face to face and then they came to my birthday and stay to sleep here and... well, a whole other magic and weird things that happened to us and that make us be the book-sisters!! ^^ (because we love books and we met through them also!)
So, Maca, have a GREAT BIRTHDAY!! Don't forget I love you, girl!! :D

Things from my life?? Went to the zoo last weekend with my cousins... I don't like zoo but it was fun just to be with my little monsters! ^^ Hum... it rained three days in a row here, I got wet and almost got a cold, but I didn't... why?? because I'm 20 years-old now and I'm invincible!! XD Oh, and yesterday I had F. Designing class and all the girls liked my drawings, my designs!!! O.O It was so weird, I thought I was like a wirdo there, I might be, yeah... but at least they liked my designs!! ^^

Anything else?? It's cold and it's Autumn... and I love it!
Have a nice day purple people!

Today I've learn: about "avios" which are the buttons or other little stuff that goes in the clothe... and I don't know their name in english ¬¬

XOXO
Safi.

First Fashion design class

Ok, at laaaaaaast I had my first Fashion design class today!! Yeay! ^^ I was weating for this like almost a year, since I found out last year that there were desgining classes in La Plata and it finally arrived the day I sit and learn about fashion.
Class: all girls, male teacher. He has his own line in Buenos Aires and he knows a lot... though he doesn't smile much and is a bit creepy for that. Girls, a lot and all talkatives except for me as always :P
Today's theme: quick fashion history (my! I knew all of that!! Thanks to movies and history books from high school! XD) and different kinds of fabrics... there are sooooo manyy!! O.O
Homework: make four random designs, easy! And classified different fabrics: not so easy!

I was so nervous and happy to go, to finally learn how to design because though I draw pretty well and know something about colours and matchings I need to know how to combine, and fashion history and about trends and marks and lines and designers. So, well, we'll see what comes out from this... I hope it is a Spring-Summer collection worth to try to do it! ^^

Not much else from today. Gotta go to the gym now and then come back to make pizza!!

Today I've learn: Oh, a lot about fabrics that I didn't have a clue! ^^

XOXO
Safi

PS: What would you like me to design for you???