Archive for January, 2011

Published by Beth Morgan on 28 Jan 2011

Love at first sight……Dior Couture

As a designer I am constantly looking and absorbing the fabulous and not so fabulous sights around me! I love reading and learning about fashion, artists, stylists, historical figures….anything in fact that might just trigger an idea.

And so I saw the Christian Dior Couture 2011 collection by John Galliano….to quote Rachel Zoe……OMG….OOC!!

Love at first dress………amazing…oh to be one of those girls wearing those dresses if only fleetingly….oh to one of the women who can afford one of those dresses! It bought to mind all those amazing 50′s Hollywood iconic looks…..Grace Kelly in Rear window, wearing skirts with yards and yards of petticoat……June Allison swishing down the stairs in that black and white dream of a frock in The Glenn Miller Story….nipped in waists….high heels….red lips! More, more, more!!!

The milliner in me loved the use of crin in the headdresses….giving a contemporary pop of structure against the back drop of such classic lines. I love crin…its tricky to work with, but the effects it can create are amazing…from swirls and loops to a frenzy of deconstructed fibres…it all works, its all good!

I shall, when I get a moment be looking at some more shows and hoping to spy something just as amazing as Dior….its going to be tricky!!

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Published by Beth Morgan on 10 Jan 2011

Happy New Year!!

Morning!

Hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas and a great start to the year!

I’m looking forward to lots of hat wearing this year! am already searching for dresses for Chester Ladies Day, Royal Ascot and you never know I may be lucky and snag and invite to that big wedding that’s coming up in April!! Needless to say, lots of planning and research needs to be done and with the shops starting to have their new collections arriving daily I am loving the new spring colours and wishing for some sunshine!

I have been busy too….have managed to finally finish my 2011 Couture Collection……its been a real labour of love…lots of detail…more than usual….have got a bit carried away with beading this time! But as a true girl I love some sparkle…..I have attached a couple of sneak peek pictures to wet the appetite! More to follow shortly….just need to get them properly photographed!

Also would like to just say a quick thank you to Kate Middleton for sporting a rather lovely hat to a wedding this weekend…got to love the simplicity and elegant shape of this creation! Keep them coming……..!!!

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