Here it is! The first preview of my collection HAUS. I'm so excited for the Final Exhibition where my friends and family can finally see all my work together.
I will upload a picture of all my garments together and what I have planned for my layout.
I'm so happy with the final outcome and especially the photoshoot. My models were gorgeous and the garments looked beautiful on them.

Recently I have had a lot of stuff to do in final preparations for my exhibition. With it only being three days away I still have a lot of work to do.
Luckily all of garments are now complete and have been for around a week so that is the main thing out of the way. All I need to do now is finish pressing them and ensure that there are no loose bits of thread.
Last Friday was a big part of preparing for my exhibition as I had my final photoshoot with some gorgeous models (my friends) wearing my garments which I hope to blow up and have them up at my exhibition.
Look out for the photos in about 10 minutes as I am super happy with them and I really hope you like them!

Apologies
Sorry that I haven't been blogging a lot recently, I've been really busy making the final preparations on my garments for my final major project!!
I now have only 8 days left to complete all my work!!!
So scary how these past two years in my Fashion class are coming to an end but I am excited to see what great opportunities arise in the next few years when I leave to go and study Fashion Journalism.
UPDATE
As you know, my theme is Pop Art meets the 21st Century (I.e transforming Pop Art by using Pastel Colours) and I am creating a range of garments by using Screen Prints and Embroidery.
I have chosen three main designs to print with that link in with the theme and I will be printing them on:
3 Jackets
3 Tops
3 Skirts
3 Dresses
Each will be like a little collection so for example,
1 Dress, 1 Top/Skirt & 1 Jacket will all have the same design on etc...
I have also created a screen design for my bags which I will display and sell at the exhibition.
Being inspired by Pop Art & the 1960's, as part of my project I will be making a Paper Dress (Inspired by Andy Warhol's Souper Dress) but it will be in the style of Paco Rabanne's Chain Mail Dress)
Display
For my display, I will be setting it up as if it were a little shop. I will have my logo HAUS displayed on wood blocks, hanging from the ceiling and all my 9 garments and the paper dress will be displayed for the viewers to see.
I will upload pictures of before and after pictures to show the transformation of the space I have have given.
I am so excited to finally be able to show off my work!

It's my first Sunday off work in absolutely ages and I thought I'd spend it trying to get some work done.
I only have little over 6 weeks to complete my full collection, complete my books and display them.
Can't wait to see all the final outcomes!

Tonight, I am preparing all of my blocks to be made into my final pieces.
I have already completed two of my final dresses and I have just started sewing and printing my top and skirt garments.
This image shows the process of preparing for my jacket garment.
Think the award for the messiest/creased block definitely goes to me!

I only have little over 2 months left to the complete my FMP.
I'm so happy with the progress that I have made and how my ideas have came to life.
These images are of my toiles that I have made.
The left image shows my cropped tee and high waisted flared skirt toiles and the image on the right shows my edge to edge jacket toile over my final dress piece.
My jacket toile does have a lot of pins on the edges due to me having the change the width of it as the patter couldn't be seen underneath so I have pinned it to where I want it to be.
My next stage is to alter all changes onto my blocks ready for my final pieces to be made.

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!