All good things come to an end. And so has my class at Central St Martins. They say Hindsight is 20/20. I say that I would’ve had to know everything they taught us in the class that I knew by the end at the start, in order to successfully complete the project. As it stands, I feel like I’ve learnt a lot around the concept of a “collection” and that I need to seriously work on it quite extensively.
Sketchbooks are useful, and working on a single project per sketchbook is a good thing. Collages, general research, fashion research, textiles, patterns, textures, colours, details… concepts which were not alien to me before have now taken the correct place (or an academic place) in the framework that is fashion design.
What I learnt? That you learn from mistakes. That you cannot achieve perfection in one shot, and should not try. And that independent designers flourish in London because there is no market to absorb them and highlight their skills. Apparently, here, we specialise in the High Street.
A few last sketches before I move on to doing random projects again and go back to making dresses. I still have one to finish from Xmas.
hurrah for sunshine!
