escapading to Cairns

Ima gonna go check into the honeymoon suite with a special friend

literally.
I told the receptionist that we were newly weds so we get a bottle of champagne and pool of roses, I don't care if its tacky...it'll sure beat spending the weekend with my nose dirty amongst text books and folios and shit blogs of fashion philosophy.

CANT WAIT FOR THE COCONUT TREES HUMANS, CANNOT WAIT.
xox ec

We know a place where all souls go

Some things I've been working on recently:
Anna Dixons 21 dress, gah its not working, how to fix how to fix? what to DO?


Some things I've been looking forward to recently:


Some friends I've been sailing around with recently:





Some music I've been listening to recently:


Also have been spray painting Salvatore Ferragamos and moon boots silver & bleaching bum bags & dyeing fabric with iodine and blood and I-DIE.

I've been painting t-shirts rather than making them


And eating lollies


LOL JUST LOOKING AT THAT PICTURE MAKES ME GIGGLE ALL OVER AGAIN
he eh ehe he he ec
ps: if you want to see proper studio school work check out emilyjunecollins.blogspot.com
xoxox

Wherever you roam

Turning to Dylan, Glover said, 'What is this shit, man?' Dylan shrugged his shoulders and replied, 'Well, you know, it seems to be what the people want to hear.'




"Dylan's aim was to ride upon the unvoiced sentiment of a mass public—to give that inchoate sentiment an anthem and give its clamor an outlet."


"Once upon a time it may have been a matter of urging square people to accept the fact that their children were, you know, hippies. But the capacious urging could then come to mean that ex-hippie parents had better accept that their children look like becoming yuppies. And then Republicans..."



For the loser now, will be later to win, for the time they, they are a-changin'
ec

Mental Slave

LYKE LYFE SITUATION ATM

Fernando bowled next to these guys in Williamsburg, no big deal just shared cupcakes with them:

gah, the life of a pro ball player.

First day with Nathan Brown today, designed 2 types of military jacket on illustrator and a leather shirt. Life at BlackByrd is totally fun, I think I'm gonna love working there.

Saw this on television tonight, Australians are so interesting- couldnt stop laughing...


Started finally making Anna Dixons 21st autumn dress on the mannequin, I started to dye silk with betadine and iodine and soya sauce to get good colour ways for the theme. I'm not sure how it will smell by the time of the party but I will keep you posted....

Fell in love with this man; Damir Doma. Here is a snippet of his incredibility


1.2.3. its kinda dangerous to be me.....EC
embarrassing really.

:) xox

Fashion is a life of the globe

Got a call from Robert Childs (head designer for Thom Browne) yesterday from New York (drunk at 4am) and was so very excited to hear all the gossip about where the company is headed and that they are now showing in Paris not New York and now have a full womenswear line rather than capsule collection!

Have been going a little crazy in the gym, all the flat-rats at the Y (ha) have inspired me to hardcore get into hip-hop, cannot stop listening to smooth Tribe Called Quest and Mos Def...(aparently Talib Kwali was in Melbourne last night?- we saw him at Brooklyn Bowl once in Williamsburg) but this song has just got it going on...



I'm at school now trying to print shit off and my print credit is $0.90 and my bank account balance isn't much greater. Damn man, lyfe sux. Cant afford to do my homework.
Bummer.

Although one highlight of University today was getting Sue Thomas's signature, yeh, seriously! She was so suss about what I was going to use it for, it was a riot just to ask her, I am going to scan it and put it on this blog and will remember her words of inaccurate wisdom for the rest of my life.

Here are some more images from school work recently: made a dress out of table cloth plastic material that is seriously fun to wear.



IT was supposed to reference Modrian and De Stijl -----------

----------------although the topstitch machine wasnt so fond of my fancy plastic and chucked a spasm at one point which got me scared about libby and hence the entire thing really ought to be unpicked and thrown in the trash.



Oh well. Was thinking of making the front pocket into an attached bum bag (ie put zips at the top) or adding a few more triangular structures at the front...whadduya reckon?



Love Emily C

I'm so naked in these clothes

It is school time again, boo, and I have to start another blog to put all my university work on so that our class can critique each other. The title of this blog is actually perfect for the first post on my other blog, the studio I am doing this semester is focusing on the idea of shadows...

(prada)

I think (after reading some of the chapters we have been given to reference) that the idea of shadows represents an element of the fashion system, in that there must be a divide of the interpretations of 'fashion' being rather than a garment, the sociology of the consumer. Therefore something in which possesses the term 'fashionable' could be simply a shadow of clothing, or less, personal opinion/thought which has literally no physical element.



“Fashion is something that exists in peoples’ minds, it changes the way people respond to clothing” Yuniya Kawamura



Here is a quick photoshoot Melissa Belissa and I did last week with a garment that I made for Design Art & Society. We needed to 'respond to knit as a modernist', I had just gotten back from New York where I saw the 20 year Margiela retrospective at Merry Go Round with Cole and was quite inspired by his recycling of garments.



That and I have a wallet that is lighter than a swallow in winter AND Sue Thomas (our teacher) is a fruitloop for sustainability and I knew making a garment out of an already existing knit would be easy & (like moschino cheap and chic but with out the chic) & would get some sort of brownie point, or brownie, or at least just not brown nosed?



SO- MEET MY DRESS, MADE OUT OF MY STOCKINGS.



sexy



Looks like a car has run me over multiple times- as does my face.
Boxing class in 25 minutes, I'm gonna get hardcore exercised with the tattooed bald white man that takes the class. roar
EC