Beginning of the 3rd Year, my thoughts and feelings.

Finally after months of being away from Uni, I am back and I am very excited to start my third and final year of my degree!  I have been thinking all summer about the final major project (as well as the dissertation!) and I have finally decided to focus on Children's wear for little girls, primarily textile based.  If anyone had asked me at the beginning of the first year what I would like to specialise in by the beginning of the third year I would never have said Children's wear!  Not because I don't like it, (quite the opposite I have always loved children's fashion and textiles) but because it had never even crossed my mind that it was something I would be able to do..I am so used to seeing high end women's wear and men's wear on the catwalk not children's wear. I was determined that in my third year I would create a textile collection for interiors or possibly fashion, how that has changed!

Over the summer I have been keeping an eye out on anything suitable for children, from fashion to textiles and even stationary, gift wrap and cards (The highstreet store 'Paperchase' has been a popular choice on my shopping trips!)  I have also been doing work experience at the children's wear design company Paul Dennicci (they design clothing and accessories for the supermarkets and high street stores)  this is a great experience for me as I would potentially like to work within the children's textile industry.  So overall my brain has adapted from women's fashion to children's!

Many themes for my children's wear collection have been flowing around my brain, but I have now chosen the final theme...it is 'Fairytales' inspired by the original Grimm's stories (but not as gruesome!) rather than the popular Disney versions.  Looking towards the final major project rather than the 'Indigo' project in the first semester my idea at the moment is to create a six outfit collection for Autumn/Winter 2013.  The collection will be high end fashion rather than high street and will have a very special and luxurious feel.  Each outfit is inspired by a fairytale: 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Cinderella', 'Snow White', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Princess and the Pea' and 'Hansel and Gretel.'  Although the collection is inspired by fairytales it is very important for me to stress that it is not a fancy dress collection!  It is simply inspired very subtly by the original fairytales that I grew up reading.

So that's all my thought's for now..I have many prints and patterns running around my head right now, I just need to start getting them down on paper and working with them!

Here is a sneak peek of some inspiration fairytale boards!