The Style Field Guide - Cannes in Late Summer
French style is highly understated. Neutrals abound, particularly black and white.
Collar Families
Collars can be grouped into categories: Flat, Stand, Roll, Lapel-based, Draped, Tie & Bow, Integrated
How to Change a Pattern Neckline
Once you know what you want from a neckline, the next step is making it work on a pattern.
Neckline Proportion: Width, Depth and Balance
Once shape is working in your favour, proportion comes into play. Width and depth often matter just as much as the specific style of neckline.
Choosing a Neckline That Truly Suits
Choosing a neckline is not just about fashion, trends, or even body shape alone. It involves how a neckline works with your upper body, your face, and overall proportions.
Knowing your colours
Knowing your colours is a multi-dimensional foundation of style and style refinement. Its more nuanced than just knowing which colours you favour or which colours flatter your skin tone.
Wardrobe as storecupboard: Utility + Creativity
My overarching goal at the moment seems to be developing my wardrobe to be an incredibly useful storecupboard, that's ready for anything...like my kitchen storecupboard is stocked with a very useful array of quality ingredients ready for making almost anything.
Trusting each other to decipher our code of dress
Getting dressed isn’t arbitary. There is code, language, meaning, symbols. We trust each other to be fluent in this hidden language.
Wearing colour well can become walking in art
Colour is foundational to the dressmaker’s art and the wearer’s style. Finding the right route, and a nuanced and depthful approach to colour takes time, but pays dividends.
The amalgamation of good ideas generously donated by history with innovative creativity
Allowing ones work to be influenced by the work of others is smart, innovative and creates depth.
Anni Albers on the weaving craft
Craft and art. Art and craft. Steps on the same spectrum.
Recycling the past - and from them creating something that lives again
Creativity is not a synonym for originality. We can recycle the past to inspire future directions, and there ain’t nothing wrong in that.
The occasional lies behind the creative journey
A good reminder that making something great matters more than having the perfect explanation.
Cutting is higher risk than sewing
A reminding quote that scissors in-hand is as much a part of successful garment construction as time at the machine. There are few ways to correct a faulty cut.