Today I was in college from 8:30-17:00 and I was absolutely shattered.
I did get a bit bored towards the end so I found some old tartan fabric and decided I wanted to make something out of it.
I already had my high waisted skirt block to hand so I started making it.
Here is my working progress

Never leave work until the last minute especially if you have a full collection to make!
Looking forward to a night of sewing, drawing and drinking a load of coffee.

I then decided to make my first dress out of my white scuba fabric.
Overall, I am really happy with how both dresses turned out.
Here they are together...

Today I have been doing a lot of prep for my FMP.
I started doing my sample dress, I used black scuba fabric, which is exactly the same as my main fabric, except I want to do it in white.
I then tried my POPART print in pastel colours to link in with my theme.
This is the outcome... Hope you like it!
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(More pictures too follow)

For the accessories part of my FMP, I will be basing it around Silhouettes and Pastel colours.
My original idea was for the silhouette to be of the New York skyline, but I decided I wanted to do a more local take on this. So I decided to take Souter Lighthouse, a range of old vintage chimneys and a bird as my base as my city, Sunderland, is on the east coast of England.
I gathered a range of images and placed them to form a Landscape. 
I then made this into a screen and printed onto the bottom of the bag.
I them tried this in a Pastel colour but unfortunately I didn't work against the colour of the bag so I have decided to keep them as an original silhouette colour.
Another idea for accessories is little Pop Art buttoms for my garments.

I am now into my 10th week of doing my FMP.
Over the weeks, I have been gathering as much information as I can on designers, artists and different ways of presentation for when it comes to putting my collection on display.
My collection label is called HAUS, being inspired by Lady Gaga's "HAUS OF GAGA" (hence why my Blog, Twitter and Instagram name)
As I am going to study Fashion Journalism next year, I thought it would be a good idea to produce my own Fashion magazine to present at the final exhibition. 
This will feature my full collection in digital.
At the moment, I have just finished my top block for my 60's box dress and on Monday I will start doing my toile for this.
Today I had a crit where I had to present my work to my group with feedback; this helped me gather inspiration from my class mates and find what I need to do to up my marls.
As well as that, I have been doing Pop Art Appliqué.
Images and more updates to follow!

To help me prepare for my final project I have been doing a lot of research on the background of Roy Liechtenstein and how his work influenced many.
I have also noticed that many brands such as Topshop and River Island have used his work in many of their garments.
I have also been looking at pastel colours and the way people wear them and the different styles of them.
Anyways, I have been doing a lot of designs to help me get a better idea of what I want to create when I go back to college in September.
Designs to come up very soon!

I haven't posted on here in a while as I have been busy with college!
A recent project of ours was to buy a wedding dress from a local charity shop (top left) and find a theme from the Sunderland Winter Gardens. My groups theme was Autumn and Leaves.
The image on the top right hand corner shows our dress in progress, in which we changed the skirt but adding four dart lines to make it a more slim fit.
The bottom two images shows our dress finished and on display in the Winter Gardens.
There was a public vote for the best wedding dress and ours went on to win it!