second post... new style

So only my second post, finding it difficult to know what to write so thought I’d post another design, created in calico a  little while ago and realised in a beautiful engineered, rib, taupe and grey marl wool jersey. 

A summer course at CSM, sparked my renewed enthusiasm for toiling and moving away from my mundane and monotonous day job.  For anyone interested the course was called Cutting Edge Fashion a course that encouraged experimentation via toiling on the stand.   I highly recommend if for anyone who wants to start thinking outside the box again.  The course tutor, Stephanie Cooper, was inspirational and enthusiastic exactly what I needed. 

The course was a week long and I found myself stuck in a product designer mode, thinking what should I be making... a top, a dress?  She really pushed my comfort boundaries from working in commercial retail to try to stop thinking about the end product and enjoy the experimentation and concept process to see where it naturally leads.  It made the process of a designing a much more fluid, organic thought pattern which even at university we didn’t explore. Instead during my degree at LCF we always worked to a target customer and a specific product, removing the creative free flow element.

I thoroughly enjoyed the experimentation process and pleased that I know have a realised, wearable, but interesting result.  Thanks CSM.

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