CV

Here is my current CV with all the relevant information but i want to work on jazzing it up before I actually look for work in the industry!

Giles Fall 2010 runway

Womanly curves were all the rage at the Giles show in Paris, where a slew of voluptuous Victoria's Secretmodels and runway favorites stormed the catwalk.

The designer said he was aiming to catch the spirit of "slightly disconsolate girls who might be from the sixties—or somewhere in the future. Or maybe on a starship."

I love this collection I think it's so feminine and flattering I also love the colours he's used so fresh!

Something I feel good about!

Now that we are on our Easter break the weather has been a lot sunnier! Everyone is happier and i feel happier and Im getting excited for Summer! I cant wait to get away after all our hard work is over with our final projects!

People who are sucessful and inspiring!

1. Number one would have to be my dad.

2. Rachel Zoe

3. Carine Roitfeld

4. Diane Von Furstenberg

5. Rosie Huntington Whiteley

I constantly find different people inspiring so these are just the people that are inspiring me at the moment who i consider to be succesful!

Against 3 I am going to list how they got there and why.

Diane Von Furstenberg: Designer

Diane von Furstenberg first arrived in the fashion world in 1972 with her iconic wrap dress, the seed of what is today a full fashion house. By 1976, Diane had sold millions of her dresses, coming to symbolize female power and freedom to an entire generation. In 1997, after a hiatus from fashion, Diane reemerged on the New York fashion scene with the re-launch of the dress that had started it all and began transforming her company into the global luxury lifestyle brand it is today.

In 2005, Diane was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) for her impact on fashion, and one year later, was elected the CFDA's new president, an office she continues to hold. A firm believer in the power of women, Diane sits on the board of Vital Voices, a women's leadership organization that empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the world. She is also a board member of the Housatonic Valley Association (HVA). As a longtime resident of New York's Meatpacking District, Diane is a vocal member of the local community. She opens up her studio on a regular basis to host cultural events and is actively involved in the campaign to save and redevelop the historical Highline railway.

What drove her?

At university, when she was 18, she met Prince Egon of Fürstenberg, the elder son of a German prince and his first wife, an heiress to the Fiat automotive fortune. Married in 1969, the couple had two children, Prince Alexander von Furstenbergand Princess Tatiana, who were born in New York City. Diane claimed that the minute she knew she was going to get married she decided to have a career and she wanted to be someone of her own not just a plain girl who got married. So in the 1970's she began designing clothes..

Diane had no financial need to work, but started her clothing business because she yearned for independence. "I think that is the most important thing for me – and part of that was earning my own money." Her big break came when she showed a selection of garments – precursors to the wrap dress – to the legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, after which a member of Vreeland's staff suggested she set up her business in time for New York Fashion Week.

Source : independant.co.uk article

She is a really influential person in the fashion business and quite a strong women. I think she's inspiring because she's a very successful business women and it shows that women can create their own businesses too!

Carine Roitfeld: Editor/ Stylist

Carine roitfeld started her career at 18 where she began modeling, having been scouted on the street in Paris by a British photographer's assistant."I wasn't a star," she says. She then went on to become a writer and then a stylist for French Elle. While she was working as a freelance stylist, her daughter, Julia, was in a children's fashion shoot for Italian Vogue Bambini in 1990, photographed by Mario Testino. Carine Roitfeld and Mario Testino soon after began working as a team, doing advertising work as well as shoots for American and French Vogue. Roitfeld went on to work as a consultant and muse for Tom Ford at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent for six years. She was approached by Conde Nast International Chairman Jonathan Newhouse to edit French Vogue in 2001.

She has contributed to the images of Gucci, Missoni, Versace, Yves Saint-Laurent, and Calvin Klein.

Why do I like her?

The thing that really interests me with Carine is that she is a style icon in her own right she created a kind of rock chic cross parisienne look and tom ford took a lot of inspiration from carines personal style which took Gucci from bankruptcy to boom in the ninety’s. Carine also often states that she loves to surprise in a picture using simple techniques. Its very clear to me that Carine is a really strong character she took a lot of risks in her career that really paid off as she wasn’t afraid to make mistakes. She describes her career as a list of accidents ovbiously good ones, So the thing I can learn from her is not to be afraid of change i guess and to take life as it comes!

“Its just my imagination that goes into the pictures. I was never a punk. Never dyed my hair blue. Never a nymphomaniac. I’m a married woman with children, but I don’t like the girl next door’.

Source for quote:(Roitfeld, C (2007). Pp39).Stylist the interpretors of Fashion.

'Every day you have to think you are a soldier. It's true. Always have to fight. I'm fighting to keep a level to the magazine. I'm fighting to get the good girls. We are doing a cover with Mario Testino just before the couture show of Givenchy so I try to book the model now. And I know that is going to be tricky because there is a Lacroix show. I don't want to be mean to Lacroix but I want my cover to be beautiful.'

Source for Quote: telegraph.co.uk

Rosie Huntington Whiteley: model

After school Rosie started modelling locally for a year, in 2004 she made her debut in runway in New York Autumn/Winter. During this time she made notable appearances in Elle Girl and Teen Vogue. She has since appeared in advertisements for Abercrombie & Fitch, Bloomingdale's, Clinique, DKNY, French Connection, LAMB, Pepe Jeans, Ralph Lauren, and Top Shop among others.

In 2008, Huntington-Whiteley appeared as the face of Burberry's Autumn/Winter campaign with actor Sam Riley. She also appeared on her second cover for Vogue (the first being Vogue Nippon May of 2005) in Vogue UK's November issue. For the magazine she was photographed alongside models Eden Clark and Jourdan Dunn in a feature celebrating British models. That year she was also placed 6th on Harper's Bazaar's annual "Best Dressed List for 2008.

The following year Huntington-Whiteley received an Elle Style Award for 2009's "Model of the Year". She also starred in a provocative short film for Agent Provocateur playing a woman whose boyfriend forgets Valentine's Day, featured as the face of Karen Millen's Spring/Summer advertising campaign and was photographed by Terry Richardson for 2010's Pirelli Calendar.

Since 2006, Huntington-Whiteley has modelled for American lingerie and beauty products brand Victoria's Secret. She made her debut with the brand in the Victoria's Secret 2006 Fashion Show, walking the Los Angeles runway among established fashion models Gisele Bündchen, Karolina Kurkova and Adriana Lima. In 2010, she became a Victoria's Secret Angel.

Why she inspires me?

Not only is she beautiful but has done amazingly well for herself in a short space of time she is now a world wide renown top model. She inspires me also because she is british she grew up in plymouth. I also love all the victoria secrets shows and rosie is the only british victoria secret Angel!

That inspires me because your career can take you so far if your good at what you do!

My five year plan..

I am not entirely dead set on my five year plan but i have a rough idea of what where I would like to go.. but not completely sure how i will get there so the plan so far is...

I am going to do the top up year with FDA fashion as that will give me an insight to the theory side of fashion which i think is quite important and we don't do much theory in the two years we have as there is simply not enough time the aim of our course is to get you ready to go straight into work! I originally thought that would be a good idea for me as i thought by the end of the two year course i might feel ready to leave full time education but to be honest it has flown so quickly which makes me think i should stick at it for another year to give me that extra advantage of having two degrees which will set me apart from a lot of other fashion students who will be looking for work!

The next step will be trying to get as much work experience as I possibly can as i know it's going to be tough to find an amazing job straight away so I think if i try and get experience in all the fields of fashion that I am interested in it will help me out in the long run and perhaps one of those experiences will lead me to something.. I don't want to be working for free for any longer than a year but it would be great if I could find work before that!

When i eventually get a chance to be involved within the industry I would like to try and get some good experience with a good company and try and stay there for a good couple of years so that i can learn as much as I possibly can so I can move on to bigger and better things.

Eventually i would like to try and find a job opportunity where I can see parts of the world.. for example you might be sent to different parts of the world to report on different fashion shows of fashion issues.

My dream job would be to be my own freelance stylist so that I can move around and work with lots of different corporate companies such as magazines, fashion shows, retailers and to style people. I think the way I plan to get there is to try and work for magazines so i can build a name for myself eventually. However normally a graduate does not just walk into their dream job so I know I will probably be doing lots of different jobs before i actually even get to help style a shoot. When i did some work experience with Instyle most of the girls that worked there had started just like me doing work experience in the fashion cupboard for a number of months or even up to a whole year before they were given a temporary contract.

Thats the plan but theres a lot that could change depending on different experiences I could like doing something completely different in fashion, I am open to change so I will see what happens!

Fashion stylist Rachel Zoe. Source mamasarollingstone.com

My new blog

Here is my blog to follow my professional project which is vintage inspired..

click on the link to check out my latest research...

http://recessionvintage.blogspot.com/

Questionairre!

Here is my questionairre based on the recession... for my final project!

So anyone browsing through if you have two minutes to spare could you please help me out and answer a few questions!

Thank you so much

Here is the link

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6YPQN9N

My Faves from London Fashion Week..Fall 2010

Vivienne Westwood Red Label

I love all the patterns, prints and colours used in this collection there is quite a lot going on in each outfit but all the colours really compliment eachother!

Matthew Williamson

I love all the Jewel bright colours in this collection, there are a lot of splashes of bright colours throughout the collection which is refreshing to see in a winter collection!

Central Saint Martins

These designs are really cool they have sculpted 3D kind of shapes in jersey material!

The hoop sort of shapes have a really cool effect.

Girl of the moment

Abbey lee does electric bohemia beach for this month's Australian Vogue!

Rip Alexander Mqueen x

1969-2010

My magazine layout...

I used Wonderland magazine to inspire the layout of my shoot. I thought Wonderland would be a cool magazine to use as there is a lot of crazy fashion that is featured so it was a magazine that i could kind of see my photos in, as I have taken inspiration from the past using pierrots but made the look current. I like how Wonderlands layouts worked as they are quite basic, but very clear, the magazine uses a lot of black and white so that was the main theme for my layout and i added a splash of colour.