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So I'm watching Project: Runway at my friend's house (we're P:R buddies) and it's the challenge where they are making Heidi a dress for the red carpet (Emmys).
So Heidi came around with Tim to look at the looks and I made a couple of comments that my friend really liked. One comment I made was about the hanger dress that Heidi wears in this season's ad for P:R -- I said I liked the top but then it goes down and you can see though it totally. I thought it looked like "Escher meets DuChamp".
One of the designers (was it Corinna?) created a green dress that was a nice enough dress, but just not for the red carpet. Someone (was it on the show or was it my friend?) said it was a nice dress and I said, "for Tea with Mussolini!"
Amanda, who is the designer who viewers (though not I) voted to bring back, created a dress with a beaded front, on the bodice and down the front and I saw it and my reaction to it was, "It looks like Cleopatra's nightgown" -- the Judges, apparantly, disagreed. They put it in the top three. Nu, nu, so I disagree with the judges! So what else is new?
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Project: Runway, Fashion Star and Me
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Last night was the 2 hour finale of Project: Runway Teams (Season 11). I started watching Project Runway the second episode of Season 5. Ever since, I've been hooked. It got me thinking about designing again, as I wrote about on Squidoo (Squidoo is being discontinued, so I migrated this over here on this blog). While I haven't done anything in a few months, I do still intend to continue. I have dozens of designs on paper, some more on my computer and a few more in my head.
Fashion Star, while not as exciting as Project: Runway, is entertaining in its own right. The designs (and designers) on Fashion Star are way more geared to commercial endeavors, and many are produced by the stores who bid for them. Update: Fashion Star was cancelled after two seasons. I think it's a shame. I really liked it.
Last night was the 2 hour finale of Project: Runway Teams (Season 11). I started watching Project Runway the second episode of Season 5. Ever since, I've been hooked. It got me thinking about designing again, as I wrote about on Squidoo (Squidoo is being discontinued, so I migrated this over here on this blog). While I haven't done anything in a few months, I do still intend to continue. I have dozens of designs on paper, some more on my computer and a few more in my head.
Fashion Star, while not as exciting as Project: Runway, is entertaining in its own right. The designs (and designers) on Fashion Star are way more geared to commercial endeavors, and many are produced by the stores who bid for them. Update: Fashion Star was cancelled after two seasons. I think it's a shame. I really liked it.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Fashion is my Middle Name (ok, it's really Lynn.....)
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Hello -- I am Debbie. I have loved fashion since I was a pre-teen. When I was a teenager, I used to knit and crochet Barbie doll clothes and sell them at a local consignment store. I have fashion drawings (that I created by tracing first comic book superhero figures and then by tracing figures from newspaper ads) from many years (since I was in my teens). I have never created any of the designs (though I did have one created for me, and I learned a painful lesson -- if you have a dress made from satin, don't use velvet as a waistband, particularly if you are large-waisted).
When I was in my 20s, I took classes at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, but I never was able to finish either Flat Pattern Design or Draping classes despite a total of 3 attempts. I did learn a lot about jewelry designing and making -- I do currently sell some of my jewelry designs on my Facebook Page and I also have some of my fashion sketches on line. I also currently sell products on several sites, including Zazzle (this link is to one of the designs I created on the computer using Corel Draw).
My nieces (one of whom is a fashion design student) got me hooked on Project: Runway a few years back (I think I started watching it religiously in season 5 -- I have seen some early season episodes (I did see some of the season 1 episodes and I became a huge fan of Austin Scarlet )). I have used their challenges as ideas to create more designs. I'm still trying to teach myself How to Sew and how to make patterns.
A few years back, I started reading fashion magazines. I go through them and tear out pages that have designs I like (I Love shoes and have designed some shoes, too) and put them in a binder. I started with Vogue and Elle and, now that Marie Claire has a lot of the Project: Runway connection "stuff", I recently started reading it. I'm hardly an expert, but I do have my own style. What I design, though, and what I wear aren't exactly the same (ok, I mostly wear loose jersey tops over leggings).
So, I'm going to try to comment on things fashionable including my own designs (and my progress in this area), designs I like in the magazines and Project: Runway.
(Oh, by the way, the title of the blog -- I decided to call it Debbie The Fashionita, not Fashionista, because I'm a Fashionista in training and in Spanish, which I speak a bit of, -ita at the end of a word is a female diminutive.
Hello -- I am Debbie. I have loved fashion since I was a pre-teen. When I was a teenager, I used to knit and crochet Barbie doll clothes and sell them at a local consignment store. I have fashion drawings (that I created by tracing first comic book superhero figures and then by tracing figures from newspaper ads) from many years (since I was in my teens). I have never created any of the designs (though I did have one created for me, and I learned a painful lesson -- if you have a dress made from satin, don't use velvet as a waistband, particularly if you are large-waisted).
When I was in my 20s, I took classes at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, but I never was able to finish either Flat Pattern Design or Draping classes despite a total of 3 attempts. I did learn a lot about jewelry designing and making -- I do currently sell some of my jewelry designs on my Facebook Page and I also have some of my fashion sketches on line. I also currently sell products on several sites, including Zazzle (this link is to one of the designs I created on the computer using Corel Draw).
My nieces (one of whom is a fashion design student) got me hooked on Project: Runway a few years back (I think I started watching it religiously in season 5 -- I have seen some early season episodes (I did see some of the season 1 episodes and I became a huge fan of Austin Scarlet )). I have used their challenges as ideas to create more designs. I'm still trying to teach myself How to Sew and how to make patterns.
A few years back, I started reading fashion magazines. I go through them and tear out pages that have designs I like (I Love shoes and have designed some shoes, too) and put them in a binder. I started with Vogue and Elle and, now that Marie Claire has a lot of the Project: Runway connection "stuff", I recently started reading it. I'm hardly an expert, but I do have my own style. What I design, though, and what I wear aren't exactly the same (ok, I mostly wear loose jersey tops over leggings).
So, I'm going to try to comment on things fashionable including my own designs (and my progress in this area), designs I like in the magazines and Project: Runway.
(Oh, by the way, the title of the blog -- I decided to call it Debbie The Fashionita, not Fashionista, because I'm a Fashionista in training and in Spanish, which I speak a bit of, -ita at the end of a word is a female diminutive.
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