Amber-Lou: Jackson Pollock inspired collection!

Amber-Lou: Jackson Pollock inspired collection!: "Jackson Pollocks work is what inspired me for my collection below. I wanted to use his technique to create an abstract garment with an inter..."

Jackson Pollock inspired collection!

Jackson Pollocks work is what inspired me for my collection below. I wanted to use his technique to create an abstract garment with an interesting look.

I chose to play with different mediums in this collection. I used grey scale prisma markers, charcoal, white chalk and for the color I used paint.  I used this painting above for the colors in this collection.

                                                            Here are the technical flats.

For this garment I splashed bleach on the fabric before I cut the pattern. After 10 minutes I washed the fabric and let it dry over night. The next day I cut the patterns and splashed each color (Gold, Blue and Red last) to the each pattern separately and let them dry over night. Then I started sewing the dress together. Here is the finished project below.

Again I am still waiting to get professional photos for the garment I created, but in the mean time here are the ones taken at home.

The red painted Saturn was removed and the collar was redesigned. Also tool has been added under the shoulder sleeve.

TOP 10 favorite dress/costume in movie history

                                                                10.) Factory Girl

 A rendition of the American fashion Icon Edie Sedgwick wearing a classic mini A-line dress that couldn't fit any better. This dress represents the mid 1960's fashion and I love it cause it is simple and chic.                          

                                                                                         

9.) How to lose a guy in 10 days

Who doesn't love this beautiful canary dress? I love the way this dress just clings to Kate's body. The low scoop v neck and thin shiny waist band creates a great flow from top to bottom.

8.) Great Gatsby

Oh the roaring 20's. I have a love for this time period so I had to include this movie because I think that this time period in fashion is just breathtaking. From the short bobs and amazingly intricate hats to the loose and highly embellished dresses.

7.) Sweeney Todd

Everything is so put together in this wardrobe. It is fun and yet like the movie holds a very dark and Gothic sort of beauty in the garments. I feel inspired by the color and form these garments.

6.) Marie Antoinette

Do I need to say anything? This entire movie is full of garments that are so unbelievably embellished and full. It makes me wish I was born to noble blood in the 1700's. Everything is impeccable. 

5.) Golden Compass

This dress is fantastic. It has a unique shape that reminds me a little of the 1920's. I love the sheer gold, high necked long sleeve top over the sweetheart neckline of the dress. It is very elegant.

4.) Pride and Prejudice 

This is my all time favorite romantic movie! Everything in this movie is so beautiful. Based in the late 1800's this time period holds my first and foremost favorite form. I love the low neck, empire waist dress. I also love the fabric choices used in these garments

3.) An Education

I really enjoy the late 1950's early 60's style. This is very fancy look. The entire look of this time period was based on another famous fashion icon as well as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. This movie nails the style.

2.) The Notebook

Oh The Notebook. Probably the number one, all time best romantic movie. Thank you Nicholas Sparks for your yet again wonderful tear jerker. Thank you costume designer for giving me 2 hours of amazing outfits that inspire me.

1.) Surprise Surprise.... Atonement  

I am not sure much needs to be said. I had to add this because I have still not seen a movie that can beat this green dress.

But lets look beyond the cliche green dress to some more of this movies wonderful costumes.

Wonderful!!

I don't know what it is about purple...

My little inspiration board for a collection inspired by ballet.

Now these are my illustrations. I wanted to create something soft and delicate but also have a hard side, so I decided to give my girls wild crazy hair but still tame. For my garments I wanted to add a heavy weight fabric with a light chiffon and these are the 3 chosen to create.

Here are my technical flats just to throw them in. 

I am currently in the process of getting new and more professional pictures of my finished designs but here are my home made photos in the mean time.

For whatever reason, when it came time to express my garments in photos, I thought about where someone might wear my garments. Possibly a wedding, maybe red carpet (wishful thinking :) but wherever that person might be going, they will probably be having fun and drinking a few glasses of pinot noir and end up having some crazy photo shoot with their girl friends in the powder room. So here you go, I hope you enjoyed this.

Inspire Me.

Things like this link below really inspires me. I find myself drawn to the blend of colors, not to mention in my first step of drawing my illustrations I always start with the eyes. I like to try to convey an attitude through the face. http://bumbumbum.me/2010/11/10/marion-bolognesi-eyes/.  Check this link.

Ok now on to my Halloween costume for this year. For the past few years me and boy friend have been dying to go as Calvin and Hobbes. Well two years ago we were planning it but we just could not find the time or the money to pull together the look so we ended up going as the cheshire cat (me) and the white rabbit (bf). Well his outfit turned out awesome but mine on the other hand turned out not so good. I just ended up looking like an ugly over-sized version of blue off of Blues Clues. I can't even begin to describe how terrible it was and incredibly unflattering.
So...this year I decided to make the time for a Calvin and Hobbes costume. For Hobbes I went to the fabric store and found the only tiger print they had. Okaay, so I couldn't go traditional black and orange Hobbes so I made it my own artistic version of Hobbes. two days later I had a tiger onesy with a hood and tail :) For Calvin, we found an old ratty tee and I took some black fabric paint and drew the stripes on it. To complete the look of our costumes we bought yellow hair spray paint that well...in the end didn't work out to well but even still we were cute.
ps: His hair turned a putrid color of green :)

                                                                     Me as Hobbes

HELLO first day of my blogging.

Hey there, I guess I will start this off by telling you a little about myself and why I chose to start a blog. I am Amber and I just recently graduated from the International academy of Design and Technology in Chicago. I Lived in the windy city for roughly 5 years. I love it there. But my journey has taken me out of the city and now I reside in the lovely place people like to call our nations capital. I am still trying to figure out what is so glamorous about this area since there is never a time there is not traffic.

Currently I am an Au Pair but during my days I am working on my fashion career. I am doing multiple sides jobs from alterations to designing work attire. I am going to track all the things that I do here in this blog.

 hmmm...Well anyways. I am going to to be dedicating this blog to my work. My Illustrations, my inspirations and my fashion. I am an aspiring fashion illustrator, and it is my dream to one day open up  a Vogue or W magazine...anything really and see my fashion illusrtation work inside. So I am going to start here. Wish me luck :)