"Luck is a way of being. Luck is not a little person. Luck is my soul." ~Mademoiselle Gabrielle Chanel A.K.A. Coco Chanel~
Its been several days since I had written and too all my fans SORRY! I have been having to face some of my demons in this process of change! It hasn't been easy not having the support I would have appreciated from some peeps. Oh well, what can I do? I can't lose faith in myself now! I know I have alot to learn hence the Fashion College and I know my sketches aren't perfect, but really is any designers sketches really "PERFECT?" So whether I am in a funk about this process I will always talk it out with my good friends Nici and Cheryl! I love them so much and appreciate their continued faith in me! Sometimes I do think they believe in me more then I believe in myself at this point. It has been a little daunting, but all I can do is move forward and continue with my day to day endeavors of dreaminess towards fulfillment of being world known...
On a much more positive note I have completed three small collections of jewellary! They are so beautiful and let me tell you the process I went through in designing them...I was laying in my bed with my sketchbook in hand and I was looking at the wall facing me which I painted Tiffany Blue and decorated with chandeliers, princess wall mountings and prada books (all for my little newborn princess) and I just started sketching the drape of the chandelier and all of sudden it came to me, "My designs could be anything I want them to be and they may not make sense in the moment, but give it time and they will evolve into something spectacular!" You see I took that wall as my inspiration, "Breakfast at Tiffanys, Audrey Hepburn, Givenchy, Elegance etc etc etc..." one thought led to another and I came up with some gorgerous pieces! I won't share them on here as I have to figure out how I am to "own" them before I put them on a public site as I don't want anyone stealing my designs and making them their own as they are that beautiful! So with that thought in mind I thought I would head to Yellowknife City Hall and pay the money to legalize my name/business and then maybe with that I will be able to "legally" own my designs? Well I am still doing research on the topic...With regards to this collection I thought I would base the rest of my collection on these themes. I am not sure if that's what "designers" do, but that's what I am going to do for sake of unison!
My fiance bought me some colored pencils (a show of support, maybe well to an extent) nonetheless; I started using them as I am not used to color since I am a Black/White kind of girl. Anyways, I did my own take on a painting I have on my wall of inspiration and well its not done yet but I am thinking of redoing it because I feel I used the wrong color for certain things! Well we will see what happens with that? I did enjoy working with color as I felt like a little girl again coloring, in fact a memory comes to mind when I was a little girl and I was in school and had to borrow pencil crayons from a fellow student (as my momma couldn't afford to buy me any) and she was using the green I needed to color my tree's so instead I opted to use several different shades of green and my teacher came by to look at our work and she told me I was genius in realizing that tree's are all different shades of green! The rest of the class was jealous and it gave me a little bit of an ego boost as I already had low self-esteem back then! I so appreciated the comment from that teacher! Thank you! Anyways, it has been great working with color with this particular sketch and I look forward to working more with color.
After watching some documentaries on Karl Lagerfeld, Vera Wang and Donna Karen I have come up with the conclusion that if they can be successful in the Fashion Industry then so can I! I may not have the start up money and I may be stuck up here in the NorthPole, but I do believe on that if I keep pushing on I am going to make it! Thank you Karl, Vera and Donna for the inspiration!
I have came up with a plan of action...firstly I am going to the Fashion College in Edmonton to gain a diploma and some experience then I will come home to the NorthPole to work on my craft to perfect it, then the following summer I will attend Parsons College program in New York to gain more experience and go home to the NorthPole to continue to work and develop my craft maybe even host a fashion show for charity. Then the next summer I plan on attending Parsons College summer program in Paris, yes Paris folks! The fashion capital of the world my friends. Right now I am not exactly sure how I am going to get to Edmonton to attend Fashion College which commences in the fall of 2010, but I am working on either finding loans and also more importantly finding a job so I can save money towards the $12,000 tuition and perhaps more money to support living expenses! Well the more I research the more I will discover what my options are! I just know deep deep deep in my heart this is what I am destined for and I am willing to do whatever I can to fulfill my dreams...you know its right when it speaks to your soul! Yes I do realize its a tough business to be in but I figure after what I have gone through in my life I can handle this! Just watch me succeed all you non-believers!
"The art of couture is knowing how to enhance" ~Mademoiselle Coco Chanel~
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