I'm a little sick right now ... sore throat and achy body, most likely a cold caught from young Miss L. So no working on the quilt today, but since I had to go through some of my old design illustrations the other day I thought that you'd get a kick seeing one of my earlier creations that I did in design school.
Project: design an urban cowgirl look for the Guess? denim collection. We were given fresh denim (that almost black inky stiff denim) from Guess? to make our designs. Then they stone-washed it for us.
Here's my design/illustration:
I made the patterns and sewed it. Here's a clipping from the local newspaper that has a picture of me during the first fitting (that coat ripped in the stone-wash process and needed to be redone) and one of me at the industrial sewing machine:
Here's the model wearing it at the jury show. This is where all the students' creations are sent down the runway and the top ones are chosen for the fashion show at the Beverly Hilton every year. Luckily my outfit made it! The coat's reversible with faux fur, welt buttons and hand embroidered arrows at the welt pocket edges.
And finally here's a photograph taken of the outfit in MacArthur Park. It was supposed to go in the yearbook but it didn't make it in. So the school gave it to me instead. :-)
Somewhere I have a picture of my model and three others at the fashion show. They were all wearing long duster-like coats so it looked like the female version of the shoot-out at the OK Corral. Ah, crazy ideas back then. Okay, now it's back to bed and rest for me.
