Three Lefts???

Just a quick one because I can't not share this with you.

I bought a pair of boots from Topshop and when I got home realised that the shop assistant had put two lefts in the shoe box. Grrrr! How annoying, considering I live a half hour walk from town and have a busy work schedule at uni! Ok fine then I'll go back the nest day to change them.

So I did. At the counter she apologised and brought another size 5 of the same shoe in, "Oh these are last chance so your lucky we have them in your size!". Guess what? The one she brought to the counter was also a left foot!!!!! Ahhhhh. "Sorry that was the last one of this shoe," she says. I couldn't believe it and was obviously very upset!!! How can that be?? Eventually we got there because the display shoe was a size 5 RIGHT! (Even though I didn't get any discount for it having been a display shoe - where are our consumer rights??)

Anyway I don't min because look how beautiful they are:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=topshop+oxblood+ankle+boots&um=1&hl=en&sa=X&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGLL_en-GB&biw=1366&bih=517&tbm=isch&tbnid=T51t8UJZlvv3zM:&imgrefurl=http://www.everystyle.co.uk/womens/ADRIEN-Shiny-Chelsea-Boots__892754.html&docid=XpFrgVNPQ9skhM&imgurl=http://www.everystyle.co.uk/products/215x322/892754_OXBLOOD_ADRIEN-Shiny-Chelsea-Boots_1.jpg&w=215&h=322&ei=DBqgTvGwFoqMswaYxJCaAw&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=250&sig=111082572739460672328&page=3&tbnh=144&tbnw=119&start=43&ndsp=14&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:43&tx=90&ty=73

Celebrities

So another one of my housemates who is also in the design school at Leeds University joined me in the downward spiral of not being able to keep up with all the coursework we have! Depressed, poor and no motivation to go out. Luckily for her she has lovely friends who came up to surprise her in Leeds last Saturday. Oh yeah, forgot to mention one of her best friends is Pixie Lott. Heard of her? No didn't think so!!! Had an great night meeting my housemates friends and acknowledging how down to earth Pixie is despite her celebrity status and success.

During her time here though I realised how dispensable designer clothes seem to be for successful professionals like Miss Lott. I blame the designer entirely. They pander to their designs being noticed, quite the opposite of Yohji Yamamoto's ethos. They will give away their beloved pieces of art, just so it has a glimpse of fame in the papers due to the celebrity wearing it. Maybe the papers are more to blame? But that's a whole other story!!!!!

Currently at uni I'm working on a shirt dress and already it's so treasured to me! I would only ever want somebody who loved it for the design etc. to wear it. Most importantly in this blog: the message I'm trying to get across is a) it is ok to wear something than once and b) designers!!! - remember why you started designing in the first place. It's not all about the fame - but the passion like Pix!

Yohji!

So... just in case you've never heard, I thought I'd speak about Yohji Yamamoto. I didn't know much about him until I had to do research for one of my modules and visited his store in London. At first it made me think it was a shame that not many people know about his work as it is so unique, beautiful and meaningful. I felt like there wasn’t enough credit behind what he does and his ethos (he once joked he may be the last designer from Japan to still manufacture in Japan)! However after researching him in depth I realised that that was the reaction he wanted from his work. He doesn’t want fame for what he does and certainly doesn’t care about money, claiming bankruptcy in 2009! Yamamoto almost reminds me of a fashion Radiohead equivalent!! Ha!


Yohji creates his collections, all made in Japan, with the main emphasis on black and the cut of the clothes. I think this sums him up well as a designer; “I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”

I think we need more designers like Yohji; who set their own trends; don’t care what the industry thinks of their style (was sniggered and booed at in his debut runway collection in Paris 1981); and have modesty in their designing.

Who couldn’t like this guy?:

sounds interesting? take a look: http://www.yohjiyamamoto.co.jp/

Pilot

Hi there. This is my first blog so be kind! Wanted to create a blog on fashion that doesn't start and end on the catwalk. As a design student, I understand that the future of the industry lies with us, the new generation and that's why I wanted to share my thoughts of future fashion.

So..... futuristic. You think we'll be able to make clothes so quickly and cheaply you can dispose of them daily? That could mean Primark and nothing else (yuk)! No. My views are going back in time, funnily enough, to slow fashion. Where people love their clothes and don't just use them for the public paparazzi of facebook, buying new outfits everyday so their facebook pictures won’t show an outfit worn twice in one week! Not quite sure why everyone wants that sort of celebrity lifestyle so bad? Wouldn't it be nice to give your grandchild a vintage item of clothing, treasured through your life. Something that you represented not represented you.

Just think we should be changing the face of fashion. Treating it like art. Would you through away a painting?

Ps. Sorry to be so hypocritical about facebook, when I’m blogging and do indeed have a facebook account. However I haven’t gone crazy on it yet, documenting what time I go for a s..t and where I’m going to be tonight! Baaa humbug, I know, sorry and ciao x