Indie and DIY Fashion: The Thread Heads
Posted by Sarah on September 29th, 2007
I really like independent design as a great ‘alternative fashion’, so-to-speak. It is accessible to those who don’t have the budget for items from big fashion houses and established designers. (Similarly, one of the inspirations for Celebrity-Fashion.net was alternative participation in current fashion . Some celebrity brands are good and some not so much, but it gives the frugal a chance to participate in some way in the fashion scene.)
All lovers of independent designers and DIY fashion will want to spend a lot of time at threadbanger.com, a site for indie fashion. There you will find all kinds of great resources: info on emerging and independent designers, DIY fashion tutorials, a forum and member videos. This is especially great if you have the creativity bug yourself, you can showcase and share your own designs and pick up useful tips and inspirations.
Below is a video from threadbanger.com as the “Thread Heads’” report on THREAD a trade show in San Francisco for emerging designers. Great tips for aspiring designers and fun to watch for fashion lovers.
It has a been more than a month since my last post and I had no intention of the blog going silent this long. But my job and the process of looking for a better job among other things has consumed so much of my time. I have been working on internal structure things and planning a definite direction for this blog, however, so I have been steadily working on things just not writing content as much as I would like. With fashion weeks and awards shows and lots of news happening this was not the best timing for juggling all I have to do. And I hope that as the designer from theorganik.com said, “give 110%” to this web project of mine!
October 12th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Double Duty Duds
http://www.artfulwears.com
The Fashionista at Artfulwears is a huge proponent of pieces that can do double duty. By double duty, we mean either pieces you can take from day to night, or that are convertible , or even reversible to get a multitude of looks out of one piece. Items that you can do multiple things with are great for saving money and even better for travel.
These “Double Duty Duds” are even more fantastic when they are wildy unique. This season we are so lucky that Nuvula created this Striped Corduroy Reverisble Jacket. It’s totally funky and does double duty. Dazzling jewel tone striped corduroy on one side, jewel tone plaid silk taffeta on the other! The plaid side also has a great signature Nuvula charcter printed on it. Frankly, we think this piece isCorduroy Striped Reversible Jacket fantastic even it was only wearable one way. The fact that you have two options with it is down right sensational!
In addition to being able to wear this jacket two different ways, you can also take it from day to night. The corduroy is great for day with jeans (what doesn’t look great with jeans). The taffeta side is perfect with a little black skirt.
P.S. If you didn’t know, jackets are the *IT* item for the season.
Check out: http://www.artfulwears.com
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:19 am
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