I was fortunate enough to be fully supported by the lovely people around me, who first thought it was crazy to make this project happen in a couple of days. But we managed to get everybody together and besides the fact that we froze during the couple of hours in which we ran around the city like rebel teenagers, everything went well.

I thought of the dress, Flo styled it, Florina made the Josephine necklace, Cristina Radonici was the bravest of us, wearing this outfit at -9 degrees Celsius, Adriana Unguras made her face look like a very angry but chic clown and Vlad Gilcescu & Ale Flamy where there to capture everything. Lots of ‘thank you’s’ for all the support.

I am so lucky to have creative and amazing people around me who say ‘yes’ most of the times to all my crazy ideas. And if these pictures spark any kind of commentary or motivate you to protest in your own way, for what you believe in, well then all the work and freezing was well worth it!

If you follow me on all the social mediums I am using (tumblr, facebook, twitter), then you probably noticed that I posted some pictures with fabrics and looks from the next fall/winter 2012 collection. We are working on it since the beginning of the new year and I am hoping we finish it by the end of the month. We have 10 more looks to do and then re-edit the collection for the photo shoot of the look-book. It’s one of the most exciting parts of making a collection – deciding on the styling, accessorizing and adding finishing touches.

I promise to keep you updated on the process!

The color palette for the next fall 2012 collection.

Florina published her new Josephine collection of jewelry today and I had to share it, as I made the dress for these photos (click to see the full post if you want to better see the dress) taken by Andi Popescu of the pretty Romina. Anca Mihalache was responsible for the perfect fall/winter make-up. How amazing are all the vintage golden and bronze frames behind her? The photos were actually taken in a local store in the Unirii Square in Timisoara, where they are actually produced. Thumbs up and support for local businesses who survive in this economy!

Alex Matusciac took these photos last year, but I forgot to post them. I made this navy velvet stretch dress for the photo shoot, very last minute, but I love the glam feeling and atmosphere of the photographs. Makes me crave for some sunshine.

”The Rainbow Dress’ photographed by Vlad Gilcescu, modeled by Davina Sinjorz.

The idea and inspiration for this colorful collection came from my painting background – I studied painting all through grade and high school and then I went to the Art University, so you can imagine just how much I enjoy working with color (even if I mostly dress myself in black – the world that I envision in my work is very bright and colorful). Everybody knows the basic colors and color combinations, so I wanted to make a collection of dresses using only primary, secondary and tertiary colors meaning: red, yellow, blue – orange, purple, green (as they are combinations of primary colors) and the tertiary colors are actually combinations of primary and secondary colors.

Fabrics that we (me and my sister, as she helped me a lot with the concept and sewing of the whole collection) used for the collection were mostly chiffon, silk chiffon, light cotton, Georgette, silk organza – meaning light and transparent fabrics for a very ‘summery’ effect.

We did not plan ‘the Rainbow dress’ from the beginning. It was late one night when me and Flo saw ourselves surrounded by all these bright, colorful fabrics, so we thought of a dress to feature them all.

The initial sketching of the collection.

These are the colorful dresses on hangers before we went to Valiug for the runway presentation.

I made this collage for you to better understand the idea of the collection. Taken separately, all of the dresses have elements in common, being either draped details, cotton colorful ribbons or colorful silk handmade flower attachments.

Look book photographs by Andi Popescu, model: Oana, make-up: Anca Mihalache, jewelry: Josephine.

You can see all the looks detailed on dianabobar.com in the category ‘Collections’ by clicking on the Spring/Summer 2012 link.

We had the opportunity to show the dresses in a summer presentation at Ponton Casa Baraj in Valiug. These pictures make me miss summer so much! Photographs by Vlad Gilcescu.

The end of the presentation – me posing with the lovely girls who walked for me.

I wanted to use this opportunity to show you two types of make-up that Adriana used, to get me ready for two TV appearances onTVR Timisoara. The first one is a more natural looking bronze eye-shadow, while the second make-up is a bit more glam and lady-like. I love them both and considering that for the second one I had to get up at 4AM, well it was certainly worth it. If you want to book Adriana for make-up you can contact her through my CONTACT form or you can send her a message on her Facebook page.