Seriously Awesome and Inspiring Fashion

These are from Agatha Ruiz de la Prada's Fall 2009 Couture collection (pics snatched from here. WOOOOOWWW! I seriously love these. They are, of course totally impractical, and those are some seriously loud color combinations, but that's what makes these pieces so awesome. Inspired by surrealism (one of my faves), and clearly channeling Schiaparelli (another one of my faves). I wish I could pull off wearing something so crazy. But these pieces are seriously fun, whimsical, and extremely creative. I will certainly be following her runway shows from now on.

Johnny Brenda's

This is a rather crappy picture of Acid Mothers Temple, a Japanese psychedelic band, playing at Johnny Brenda's in Philly over the weekend. JB's is a pretty sweet concert venue: balcony section, tasty beers on tap, and supposedly really awesome food. The band was... interesting, not my usual style choice of music. Good if you are into psychedelic/jammy sort of music. I was totally fascinated by the beaded curtain the background which they project lights/videos on, and I just had to make a print based on it. If I were to print this, the scale would be much much smaller, like a teeny tiny pinstripe, but I wanted to show off the details.



You can find inspiration in the strangest places... and I certainly do!

hmmmm...

Not sure if I really like this one, but I really do need more florals in my portfolio, and I thought it would be nice to do one in just two colors.

Sunny weather today...

...which is conducive to outside flower sketching! I think it's about time to make a Loongwood Gardens sketch day trip.

Website + Buttons!

Ooooh, big news, my website is done!! The buttons actually turned out to work out well for my website design, and now of course I had to throw them into repeat. And my mom told me, that not only are some of those buttons from my grandmother, but some are from my great grandmother, and maybe even my great-great grandmother! Family heirloom buttons, and I didn't even know it, which is pretty cool.

I'm super happy with how my website turned out. Using Adobe GoLive is such a difference from the my days of a crappy Angelfire website that I designed line-by-line html code. So hopefully I can get my name out better and get a fabulous design job! And now that that's done, I can get back to more designing, blogging, and getting outside in the finally Spring weather.