It's saturday and I can't believe that it’s already the end of my first two weeks of university—it’s really weird ! I went job hunting earlier—It’s so hard to find a job here but I’ve given out loads of CVs and got application forms so it should be ok. Whilst looking for shops to ask for vacancies I found this dress in the window of all saints which really fitted in with my creative design realisation project ‘gathering up’. My flatmate and I did all our washing joint which made it so much cheaper then we made tea for the others in our flat. Its really nice because I feel like I’m really settling in now, I feel like my flat has actually become my home. It’s just getting used to a different routine I think.

Today was a really chilled Sunday I read some more of my brief for creative design realisation and I was flicking through all the images I’ve collected through the years that have inspired me from magazines. I thought I might get some inspiration upon what to make for my garment at the end of the module and I have broken it down to four images. I Know I want to make a dress but it’s difficult knowing whether the garment I pick will be to difficult or not, but at the same time I want a challenge !

I've just had critical studies which was so hard to get my head around but really interesting at the same time, we have been set a 700 word essay for Monday so I've started brainstorming. I was really pleased because one of the dresses we have to make comparisons with is Hussein Chalayan's remote control dress, which weirdly is the designer I chose to research for my summer project. I find his work really fascinating because it always has a deeper meaning behind it -its never just a garment. My favourite collection he’s made has to be the alternative catwalk show when the models walked on stage which had chairs and a table on it then they packed up the chairs into suitcase, the covers turned into a dress and the table converted into this amazing teared skirt. The meaning behind it was the idea that people living through war had to take their homes upon their backs literally only keeping the possessions they could carry.