Follow the journey to building my clothing label - fabric shopping, pattern cutting, fittings, collections, photo shoots, runway shows - let's have fun with fashion and see what goes on behind the scenes: from an idea to a dress there is a long, but extremely rewarding way to go.
So I finished the doll for Unicef yesterday and first I wanted her to be a Gothic princess but she turned out to look more of a cute queen, right? She wears a black lace dress with the top part made of faux leather with metallic details. The eyes and the lips are also hand .... read more
[youtube 2OaVd3dM34M] I am featured in this ThreadBanger video at about 2:12. View more videos here. Before telling you how I got to ‘Google myself’ in the first place and find this old ThreadBanger video in which they actually featured me ( ‘yey’ better late than never), let me state that it’s exhaustively difficult to .... read more
I’d call this a recession outfit, just because the top is actually a random piece of black jersey fabric that I wrapped around myself. You might remember it from here, where I wore it differently under a fitted blazer. I also wore the same piece of black jersey at the RFB meeting, of course, in .... read more
I mentioned before about my participation at the “My Grandma’s Backyard” event at La Scena, in Bucharest. Well, it happened and it was a bunch of hard work mixed with fun and sales. I didn’t know what to expect regarding the clothing sales, I had yet to see customers browse through my handmade clothes on .... read more
I transformed a lot of clothes by now, most of them I left back at home thinking they would stick forgotten in their corner. But I’m gad to see my sister, Florina, discovered my [homemade] clothes and she is actually wearing them. For example this dress that I made last summer, from a pair of .... read more
What to do with a random t-shirt that your mom stained while washing it? I usually wear them layered, so the stain doesn’t show, or if it does, I just tell those that attention me about it, that I’m a painter and that I’m supposed to have all my clothes stained with color. Guess what, .... read more
I am a handbag person. It all goes back to my hight and the fact that I don’t “dare” to wear high heels when walking amongst normal people, because I don’t wanna look like a giant, so handbags are my favorite accessory. In about two years I got about 80 different types of handbags, I .... read more
One piece of fabric, 30 (!!!) different dresses. I wanted to try and see if it’s possible to build different shapes of dresses from the same fabric, and guess what: it certainly is! Using only two pins, a belt, a bra and some creativity I created 30 different dresses. Who says you need a gazillion .... read more
It’s the easiest way to make your daily coffee cup more unique: paint it! Just get some oil colors (oil stays on porcelain) and do whatever you feel. Try not to mix warm colors (yellow, red) with the cold ones (blue, green), if you want bright colors. However, if you want to get nuances of .... read more
For this latest dress I sewed today, I used the same fabric as I did for this one. However, I wanted to do something inspired from the “bondage” theme [*fetish trend hot this fall]. So I sewed 4 straps to it, which can be tied in a gazillion different ways: First one, tied around the .... read more