Tidy desk versus creatively disorganised!
23 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
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Can a designer’s desk ever be tidy whilst creatively engaged? Discuss. I think not if you are actually designing & making at the same time, especially if you need lots of components! This is not computerised work. I would try to count the number of different items on this table but I think life is just too short. Post me your views….
Vintage
21 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
Tattered Stones and friends (hopefully) will be at the South Bank on Friday 29th. Hope to see you there? And if your’re broke then head to the vintage market in the Jubilee Gardens car park – some things in life are free – browsing at least, though it’s bound to be tempting!
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/festivals-series/vintage-at-southbank-centre
Autumn 2012 – wishing my life away!
21 Jul 2011 1 Comment
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The life of a fashion designer can be weird when it comes to the seasons. It’s July and I’m expected to predict and design coats for Autumn 2012! No wonder designers are neurotic about being up to or out of date as my Mum used to say 
. We always want whatever hasn’t yet been made and can’t wait for the current season to be over to get hold of what we’re currently lusting after!
So here’s a quick preview: think 60′s not 70′s, lots of leather & fur (fake please), a la Doctor Zhivago, and watch out for big buttons featuring heavily, rather than big belts & zips.
Rainflowers & tiger lilies
21 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
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So despite it being only just past midsummer we seem to have lots of rain – good for flowers though. Tattered Stones jewellery is doing well with flowers recently – the artificial kind – corsage brooches. Of course corsages were originally worn by debs and prom princesses, and were always natural – though styled into very artificial arrangements. So here’s one of my latest ‘ rainflower’ brooches inspired more by the previously mentioned Cult of Beauty exhibition than anything growing in the garden at the moment. Dark, exotic and definately not a summer wildflower, more a tattered tiger lily .
