Alexander mcQueen

Spring summer 2011,

can't imagine how much work and hours went into this dress!

Christian Lacroix illustrates camilla Morton's new book sleeping beauty

"The book is a tale of two icons," Morton told us. "Both well loved, both inspiring, and both living in magical kingdoms. I came up with the idea as I didn't think a dry biography seemed an interesting prospect, nor could it hope to capture the mystique that surrounds the creative souls that punctuate the industry with their imagination. I thought the best way to tell their tales would be as a very special 'Once Upon a Time'."

I will be buying a copy of this book just for the illustrations!

print design

before i can get my fabric sorted i need to be thinking abou the print and what design i would likeeand basically how im going to go about doing it.

i did not want a digital print, i dont think this looks very good especially on clothes, also if im drawing it on illustrator it will not be very good. i have drawn up some ideas i think they will look very good against a light background, i might have to change the colours if they are on a different background.

flats

i chose my designs i wanted to put forward i am at the moment drawing them up in to flats this does take quite a while! im trying to do them the best i can so that i can just put them straight into my portfolio.

designs

here are some of my designs for this project i do feel quite rushed and i have not really completed my research so im going to be thinking of better designs later on.

i origionally wanted to keep them yellow and orange but then i thought about adding more colours and i basically went crazy with colour .

more flats

the line

I have coloured on of my flats on illustrator, i have a problem!!!it has a line going through the middle. This is because the feathers I scanned in are irredescent, the top of the swatch is darker than the bottom half. I do know how to overcome this problem. I will have to change the scan in on photoshop. to make theoffset 540 ) so the horizontal line is halfway, then by using the clone stamp tool i can clone the divide and blend the colours in. This will set me back six hours and i do not have that much time at the moment.