Hiking Portfolio

For my active sport portfolio class we had to do a hiking collection this week. Not really my thing, as you can tell... The inspiration was circus, so I used a lot of bright colors and mostly tried to make it look like I have been hiking before...

In further news, I just got a really great summer internship! PAID! If you are at all familiar with the fashion industry, then you know that this paid internships are essentially unheard of. Anyways, it's a great opportunity and I'm really excited! And it means that I will be in NYC all summer. I will definitely miss Harbor Springs and TX, but hopefully I will get lots of visitors this summer...

Sustainable Designs

This latest portfolio project was supposed to utilize principles of sustainable design. All of the fabrics I used were sustainable(i.e. certified organic cotton, silk, and Tencel) and were all dyed using low-impact dye techniques. Also, the intention was to use local artists to do all of the hand quilting that that jackets would require. Anyways, we had to present the project on boards which I haven't had time to photograph yet, so these are just the figures.

The inspiration was originally little house on the praire/ vintage laura ashley, but it really turned into an Americana themed group.

four weeks left of school!!!!

p.s. def click to enlarge--i spent forever hand drawing these prints!

Modeling for RUH by Suji Oh

This past week one of my best and closest friends, Suji, had the honor of being asked to show her new collection of hair accessories at Henri Bendel (avery upscale and fashionable department store here in nyc). Suji handmade every single one of her pieces, and they are all insanely beautiful. When she asked me to be the model for the collection I was so, so honored.

Angelique also did some modeling (and photography, of course), but all of these pictures were taken by the incomparable Paul White. (There are trillions more where these came from!! I just chose a few highlights...)

p.s. here is a behind-the-scenes pic from the prep for the shoot. As you can see, it was verrrry exhausting getting so glamorous.... (although Sue and Suji did a very good job!)

Buy Furs!

I spent the majority of my Spring Break trip to Texas out in the hill country in Roundtop and Warrenton at the HUGE annual antique shows out there. Three full days of digging through millionsssss of old artifacts... pretty fun. And exhausting. The weather was beautiful though (and the Texas wildflowers are INSANE this year!!!) and I found some pretty cool things. Mainly, really old and ratty stuffed animal bunnies (amazing), old trims and buttons, some cool purple glass bottles, andddd FUR! At the beginning of the trip, I told my mom my main goal was to get a scarf with a face on this trip. And the one I found has not 1 face, but FOUR! Best find ever...

Four minks (i think) including their faces, tails, and legs! All for 15 dollars!! I spent the rest of the trip looking for another one in a darker color so i could wear them all at once (for that super-whacky grandma look) but none were cheap enough. Sad day. The search has not been abandoned though....

I also fell in love with this sign, and am going to paint my own...

These people actually had tons of stuff I would have loved to have dragged back to ny with me. There was basically endless inspiration and exciting stuff to be found.

Anyways, when I wasn't freaking people out by modeling my new scarf, I was eating. Texas seriously does have the best. food. ever. I'm still trying to recover. I could probably fast til the end of the semester and still be able to survive after all that good old southern cooking....