Thursday, June 30, 2011

To have and to hold.

I am having so much fun with GELIEFT's designers, Teresa and Stephen :) Working hard while having a good laugh makes it totally worth it! For the past 2 weeks I have been helping them with a GORGEOUS wedding dress for a young girl who's getting married on the 16th of July. Her fitting was yesterday - she looked beautiful and was in LOVE with her gown! Teresa is almost done with the lace molding and then only a few details left. 



Teresa fitting the corset on "Dilorus" :)


Busy hand sewing while it was pouring outside..


Bernice (their seamstress) - such a PRO!

BELOW: Yesterday's fitting


Stephen and Teresa placing the lace on the straps


The PERFECT fit :) 




Karla busy pinning a mock up for me to sew..

This week we were two interns, myself and Karla (she's a 2nd year student at Elizabeth Galloway in Stellenbosch). We had a lot of fun together but unfortunately today was her last day for she's leaving for Namibia tomorrow. I will accompany Teresa and Stephen to Cape Town tomorrow morning to do a bit of fabric shopping with another bride-to-be :)

Can't believe next week is my last week... As the saying goes - time sure flies when you're having fun! So true. 

xoxo

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Home sweet home...

Done with our third outfit and onto the next! During our 4 week "holiday" now we have to intern for 3 of them, like I mentioned in a previous post, and we have to sew our 4th look as well. I started my internship at GELIEFT's studio in Stellenbosch yesterday and am having an awesome time! They are extremely sweet, understanding and very helpful :) I will dedicate an entire post every week to keep you updated on what I have been doing and what they are working on (they are amazing at multitasking by the way!). I am very proud of my 3rd look, the fit was perfect and it DID look like a jelly fish if I must say so myself :P 


Hellooooo jelly!







Have a good week!
xoxo

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Ah, McQueen :)

Watch one of my favourite Alexander McQueen fashion shows here - Women's S/S 2010 - Plato's Atlantis. How amazing? Pure GENIUS! Another video below:


Alexander McQueen
 Fall/Winter 2009/10 Womenswear


A few photos to remind you just how awesome his designs were...
















Oh my goodness. RIP Alexander. 


Luckily we still have the talented Sarah Burton to surprise us with those futuristic elements :)











xoxo