'Matters of the Heart' photo shoot

With thanks to some lovely friends new and old, I was able to get some absolutely beautiful images of my outfits on some beautiful girls at a very beautiful location.

With thanks to -

York Minster

Ben Walgate Photography

Alice Lindsay Hair

Aimee Baxter

Amanda Gilby

Bethany Thompson

Emma Swanton

Katie Forester

Stephanie Parkinson

 

 I was am very proud of these images and feel they portray the feelings and themes that helped me create this collection. 

Now is just the waiting game for results!!!

You can find all of these images and more at www.EllaVSimpson.com

Final Collection!

After weeks of designing, buying fabrics and creating my final collection is finally finished!!!

All done and dusted over a week before the deadline ^_^ 

The photo shoot is tomorrow and I am so excited!!

I have managed to get a photographer and hair stylist to help out and 6 friends to model my outfits.

The setting will be the York Minster in the evening so there isn't many people about.

Very excited to see how the pictures turn out! These will be posted up in the next few days :D

Be back soon!! ;)

Making the most time consuming fabric in the world.

So after deciding to use water soluble fabric to create a new sheet of fabric.

I shredded 6 different fabrics in to tiny pieces and then stitching them on to the dissolvable fabric it creates a layer.

You have to sew over it over and over and over again which sent me in to some kind of weird fabric trance D: 

I think in the end I had about 20 panels which took about half an hour each to make. Writing this down now has just made me realise i spent 10 BLOODY HOURS!!!! making it. 

At least it looks cool!! haha 

Heres a picture Nat took of me hard at work in my fabric trance.

Not one of my finest moments :/ haha

After cutting all the fabric and sandwiching it in to the dissolvable fabric and sewing over it (50 billion times) you run it under water and it dissolves away just leaving the same scraps sewn together .

I scanned in a small sample i made back when i thought this was a really good idea.

Here are some images of the bigger panels and the finished product. I also stitched my beaded spine from my previous post on to some of the panels to go down the centre back of my dress.

So many little things on top of other little things D:

Will do another post tomorrow with my final images :) 

luv u beh!