POP! Design.Culture.Fashion - Exhibition Review

POP!

DESIGN.CULTURE.FASHION

POP! is a touring exhibition from the Fashion & Textiles Museum in London, stopping by at the Barnsley Civic. I went to a private viewing of the exhibition last night and and it was delightful seeing some historical pieces ranging between 1950's and 1970's, hitting at poodle skirts, studded leather jackets, Mary Quant monchrome dresses and The Beatles' memorabilia to name a few. Barnsley College fashion students also linked in with the exhibition, creating outfits that were inspired by popular culture and the Union Jack flag.

Video by Wayne Sables

Barnsley College Fashion Students were given a brief to create a very British outfit and inspired by British designers and pop culture. There were some lovely outfits and were well executed technically. They had to stick to the Union Jack Flag colours as well as black. My personal favourite was the long black shirt that that was made in a sheer fabric with a devore print on (the far left outfit on the photo below).

The Hannah Elizabeth Studio Evolution

 The Hannah Elizabeth Studio has undergone a makeover for it to become usable. I didn't want a typical 'workplace', I wanted it to be inspiring, colourful, happy and special. Here's the timeline of the studio...

S/S 13 Hannah Elizabeth Inspo.

Hannah Elizabeth is currently under way of starting up its very first clothing line, set to release this Spring Summer. A lot of planning, researching and collecting is needed before even putting pen to paper in designing the garments. Here are three mood boards, representing the colour palette, fabric choices and design elements.

The colour palette will consist of lush lilacs, candy pinks, mint greens, soft lemons, peaches and sky blues. A full array of Pastel tones to keep a lovely feminine and girl feel to it.

Fabrics will have plenty of laces with embellishments. chiffons, satins, meshes, etc. I'd love to keep my fabric choices towards tactile, touchy-feely an flowing type materials.

The design elements will mostly be towards dresses but also in skirts, blouses and shorts. Dresses with elasticated waists to give fullness in the skirts that are longer at the back than the front. Batwing tops and lace overlays will be nice additions and the lace trimmed shorts for extra cuteness.

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Vintage Pink Style

Dress - Magnolia

Underdress (Just seen) - Select

Cardigan - Atmosphere

Belt - Select

Scarf - New Look

Pearls - Primark

Shoes - Dorothy Perkins

Ok...bit of an odd blog post for me, this is my first self-style post I've EVER done! So please excuse my noob-ness. As a designer, I find it much easier to dress other people than dressing myself...wait...who am I kidding, I'm horrible at dressing myself!! However, now and then I seem to put myself in something that I quite like and feel proud of myself for putting together. This outfit is quite girly and summer-y with a bit of a vintage look with the lace and I love my nude-pink shoes! 

Pastel Hair Inspiration

As a designer, I'm always on the look out for those fashion show elements inspirations and obviously hair is a major part! I would love to have my girls' hair in a ray of pastel tones and to be colourful...

Lilac & Pink

Lemon & Orange

Mint & Blue

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Our New Design Studio!

Hannah Elizabeth now has its own design studio! Exciting times ahead!! However we have only just started doing it up and sorting everything out for it. The studio is two small adjoining rooms, as I will be having a lot of furniture including two industrial sewing machines, two desks, a cutting table, rails and much more!!

Each room has four walls (obviously) so each wall will be a different colour, I've chosen Lilac, Mint, Lemon and Sky Blue. All doors, skirting, architrave, etc. will be in White and then I'm having a lino put down on the floor in a laminate pattern. So excited to get it all done and get everything moved in!

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Pastel Carpet at the Oscars

The Pastel colour palette is set to be a main feature in the new Hannah Elizabeth clothing range, so it only made sense to check how the celebs are wearing these colours on the red carpet. The Oscar awards are one of the most glamorous red carpet events of the year so I have scoured the thousands of pictures and picked out the main pastel coloured outfits.

Anne Hathaway - Prada

Jennifer Lawrence - Dior

Louise Roe - Monique Lhullier

Lara Spencer

Some lovely blushes and coral tones in a range of fabric textures. Anne Hathaway's Prada dress has a beautiful sheen satin look to the fabric which is very glamorous and with her pixie crop hair, creates a very cute and innocent look. Jennifer's Dior dress has had mixed reviews but I think it's lovely, she's kept it simple and elegant and the texture of the fabric gives that little twist. Louise's Coral vined dress and tulle skirt is nicely detailed as well as Lara's glittered and sparkled slim one-shouldered dress.

Catherine Zeta-Jones - Zuhar Murad
Jessica Chastain - Armani Prive
Octavia Spencer - Tadashi Shoji
Rene Zellweger - Carolina Herrera
Naomie Harris
Fatima Ptacek

Golden metallics and peachy hues were another popular garment colour on the red carpet. Catherine Zeta-Jones just looks timeless, even though she's in her fourties! Naomie Harris (of the new Miss Moneypenny!) looks beutiful in this simple yet detailed orange dress, goes really well with her complexion. Jessica and Rene's  golden dresses were both very fitted and simple, letting the fabric do the talking for them with the added mini train.

Amanda Seyfried - Alexander McQueen
Amy Adams - Oscar De La Renta

Even though these two beautiful women are the only ones to have had lilac dresses, they are two stunning lilac dresses! Amanda's McQueen dress has quite a signature McQueen silhouette but is then softened with the detailing of the fabric with flora type shapes encrusted onto the lavender backdrop. Amy's cinderella shaped dress looks to be very tactile, with an almost furry feel to the skirt in the enormous train. 

Charlize Theron - Dior
Georgina Chapman - Marchesa
Kristen Stewart - Reem Acra
Zoe Saldana - Alexis Mabille
Queen Latifah - Badgley Mishka
Lucy Alibar

Charlize looks abosolutely stunning in this simple Dior strapless peplum dress, along with her strong features and pixie blonde hair. Kristen Stewart's Reem Acra dress was very textured with flower shapes all down the dress, then splitting at the bottom to reveal tulle underneath, however points to her for turning up with crouches! Zoe Saldana's dress is a little hit and miss for me, the top section looks pretty but the bottom doesn't quite look like it belongs.

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