Every year the Costume Program at The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandizing participates in the fashion show Debut. This year our theme was the masquerade scene from Phantom of the Opera. Each student was given a budget, and three costumes to build for the show (One principal, two ensemble) I made costumes for the Diva Carlotta, a moon ( Read more... )

Every year the Costume Program at The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandizing participates in the fashion show Debut. This year our theme was the masquerade scene from Phantom of the Opera. Each student was given a budget, and three costumes to build for the show (One principal, two ensemble) I made costumes for the Diva Carlotta, a moon ( Read more... )

Every year the Costume Program at The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandizing participates in the fashion show Debut. This year our theme was the masquerade scene from Phantom of the Opera. Each student was given a budget, and three costumes to build for the show (One principal, two ensemble) I made costumes for the Diva Carlotta, a moon ( Read more... )

Woohoo, another one done! Full post here.

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 Oh LiveJournal, how I hate you more and more. I've tried to post these posts for weeks and every time I do, I get an error message.

Let's just make this quick and easy.( Read more... )

Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about June! I'm just a few steps away from completing it, but I can at least write July's intro post in the meantime. The blog link to this post is here.

Roo, Christina, and I are testing out a potential pattern for Roo's wedding dress, specifically this Vintage Vogue pattern. Another friend had made this dress ( Read more... )

Abu's waistcoats!

( Monkeying Arround with Russia Braid and other bling... )

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I have just posted pictures of my latest class project - a fairy princess ballerina costume. I built every piece of it, from hand dyeing the fabric to styling the wig to creating the brass rod support that holds the skirt up behind the dancer. There are pictures of the costume from mockup fitting to fabric fitting to final photos. Let me know ( Read more... )

All right, I've got a problem. I was working on the sleeve cuffs of my Queen of the Night dress (see a couple of posts down) and the material I was going to use for the cuffs has turned out to be too stiff to lay properly. It's the same material I'm using for the overskirt because I wanted the cuffs to match it. But unfortunately it just looks bad ( Read more... )