Northampton

Had a brill trip to Northampton! Went with Sandra, Sam, Gary and Julie to go leather shopping. Found the perfect coloured nubuck, just exactly what I wanted from A and A Crack Leathers, unfortunately I’ve only got a little bit, as it was a remnant, so I’ve got enough to maybe make two of the pieces of my shoe, but if I mess it up then I’m not sure what I’ll do!! Also got some lambskin lining in a really nice pinky colour. Went to meet the Tempesti leather agent at his house which was interesting! His wife was really sweet and had made us all chocolate brownies! Ordered some really nice vegtan rosey pink leather (pretty expensive!), but its reeeeeeeally nice! Good to see some leather places outside London.

LFW

Had a really busy few days! Last week I went to a talk from the Inditex Group, (people who run Zara, Massimo Dutti, Bershka and some other brands), and it was really inspiring! Nice to have an opportunity like that, Zara would be such an amazing company to work for! So we have to send our CV’s and cover letters to Adam by next week and he’ll send them all off. Friday was the start of London Fashion week, but I didn’t go until Sunday. Had a look around and saw some really cool stuff, highlights:

• Nicholas Kirkwood for Rodarte
• Christopher Raeburn
• Atalanta Weller

Wasn’t massively impressed with Georgina Goodmans new collection, quite a lot of similar structures to previous collections, just in new colourways. Nice to see people I recognised and show my face a little bit! Worked on the ML stand for a little bit. I don’t know why they have LFW at Somerset House, the cobbles are IMPOSSIBLE to walk on in heels!!! They need a location change, possibly with no steps either!

Scanning Issues

Aaaargh!! My scanner is so unbelievably bad! Keeps coming up with this error message “ Sorry unable to allocate system resource to complete operation”, which is totally wrong, because theres loads of memory on my computer!! Checked loads of forums online and nobody seems to know how to fix it!!!! NEED it to do some colourway options!!

On another less intense note, organised a meeting with Adam Watling (FBRS guy) on the best ways to start applying for jobs. Told me some good tips and some websites to check out for example ‘LinkedIn’, which Id not heard of before which is where you set up like an online profile like facebook or something but you can add companies and things and see what job opportunities there are. Need to get on that!!

Placement Year Meeting

Went to a meeting earlier about the placements year we did. Was glad that one was finally organised as I think its really important to feedback about the year, (plus we got free wine!). Was a same more people didn’t turn up and I think in future that they should definitely organise this session for straight after we get back to uni. Was really interesting to hear other people’s experiences. Had a tutorial with sarah on Tuesday which went ok, she like my designs and some of the experimentation I did with the latexing! Was so much fun but had to be really careful on making it neat. Want to continue with experimenting a bit more with this technique.