Stalked: Megan Clinch, Emerging Lingerie Designer
20 July 2015
Lingerie is one of
those items which I always find I can justify spending the money on and I’ve
always been slightly obsessed with this particular (under) garment. I remember
my first internship was with the well known luxury lingerie shop Myla and there
was something I enjoyed about organising their huge press samples cupboard full
of sexy negligée and crotch-less panties!!
So for a while I’ve
been on the search for an emerging lingerie designer to get on the blog,
finally I found her at Graduate Fashion Week, please may I introduce, Megan
Clinch...
Why did you decide to
specialise in lingerie design?
I never even
considered doing lingerie before university, I knew I wanted to work in fashion
but had no idea what I wanted to specialise in. It wasn't until we started
learning about lingerie/swimwear in second year which led me to decide that is
what I wanted to do! I chose to create swimwear in my second year and then
moved into lingerie for the third and fourth years after interning at a lingerie
company in my placement year. I've really loved it ever since I started it in
second year, and am definitely glad I've chosen this path.
Back To Basic Stalking: Shoreditch
15 July 2015
Anyone who is starting out in the world of street style I strongly recommend Shoreditch in London as a good place to start. It's easy pickings for stylish individuals as well as having awesome unique boutiques and shops to visit in between shopping.
I stalked this lovely lady on these stylish streets over the weekend, I loved her simplistic styling and beautiful laser cut silk pencil skirt, as well as that killer this seasons must have, the backpack!
Stalked: Natalie Bell, Graduate Fashion Designer
10 July 2015
This year I toddled along to London's Graduate Fashion Week and as you can imagine this event is hot pickings for a stalker like with a passion for emerging talent!! This is also where I met Natalie, a recent graduate with a final collection that I utterly adored. I caught up with her to find out how she came to designing and her final show...
When did you know you
wanted to be a designer?
In school I
was talented at sewing and always pushed my self more in the production side of
fashion ensuring things were sewn and fitted correctly, playing around with
pattern cutting before I even knew how it worked. It wasn't until I went to university
that I really moved into design, I wanted to choose a course that would nurture
the need for precision in production as well as help in developing as a
designer. After trawling through many universities I found Fashion Atelier, still
a very young course I was originally sceptical that such a course could provide
the teaching that the university's website promised. Yet It really did, two of
the most influential tutors being Alan Norris a retired tailor from Hardy Amies
and Eva Blonska a retired couturier from Hardy Amies, the knowledge they have
to share is incredible and were always on hand to ensure that even the most
difficult to construct designs were made possible. Being taught such classic
forms of tailoring, enhanced my ability to design in ways that were classic and
yet still clever and fresh.
Stalked: Sasha Cherovsky, Jewellery Designer, Raw Taste.
6 July 2015
Sasha Cherovsky is not only a very talented jewellery designer, she is also an artist, with her jewellery, photography and film all having a beautifully 'raw' edge. She values quality
over quantity, uniqueness over conventional and spiritual energy over
emptiness. Sasha's designs the kind of jewellery which you can easily obsess over and get addicted to wanting to wear more and more.. she is undoubtedly one of my favourite jewellery designers at the moment.
What do you love
about jewellery design?
I love to let the
material I'm sculpting speak to me. I rarely sketch or plan a design in
advance. After exploring a texture and material and having prototypes, I will
move on to more rational business decisions.
Summer Stalking: Pandora Sykes, Journalist
1 July 2015
As the summer temperatures rise here in London town, all of us city chicks are reaching into the bottom of our wardrobes to dig out those summer essentials as well as discovering the need for new ones. I have to admit I'm definitely more of a winter girl with an enormous amount of coats which my other half often teases me about but as the summers in UK get longer (her I'm not complaining) I know I have to revamp this summer wardrobe. Starting by taking inspiration from one of my favourite stalks.. Pandora Sykes, a girl who could easily out-style every girl in the room and is also the lady behind Sunday Times Styles Wardrobe Mistress.
I adore this look, simply perfect and not too over thought..
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