Spring 2011

This is my first design that got ordered for 1000 units for Spring 2011. This was actually very special to me. After 3,4 months working as an assistant, my head designer had decided to let my sketch out my designs and made samples from my sketches. I started with sketches out my design, around 10 designs, finished the tech pack by myself, picked out the fabrics and sent my designs to China. It was very interesting when you have to communicate oversea with the pattern maker in China. I've learned a lot through my first experiences, it was complicated at first but I found that it was so interesting that I couldn't stop sketching more designs. My works has paid by this dress was being picked and got through production successfully. Fabric for this dress is Stretch Taffeta, it's available in bright red and bright turquoise. Very fit to the body, look young, cute and sexy on a teenager girl, young college girls.

1890's & 1930's Inspiration

Empire Sample photos

Street Wear Inspiration

One summer day, I saw a girl walking on the street with her friends she wore bloomers and a top. Most of her friends wearing legging. I thought, people really likes wearing knee length bottoms. So, I went home and started sketching my ideas, and i came up with this collection. They are simple but they will make people on the street turn their heads back to look at and say: COOL!

My Empire Purple dress

And here is my Purple dress of the Empire Collection for winter 2010. There are to layers in this dress. The top and bottom skirt of inner layer is Chamuse fabric and the outer layer is Chiffon fabric. It's a bias dress with the center back hidden ivisible zipper for closer. The top has chiffon layer with hand stitchs.

Fashion 130 Empire flats

I uploaded the Fashion 130 Empire collection before, but I hadn't upload the flats, which i should have done. So, here I am, uploading my flats so you can see the whole collection. This is just the first line sheet, my second line sheet, i am still working on the background. So, stay tuned.

My Empire Collection

Yeahhh, I finally started my new collection "Empire Influences". Empire era is mostly focus on garment that has high waist. The top of my dress is strapeless with boning inside and the skirt is on bias to created flare. I added a little flowers details on the top for focusing. I created each flower and then hand sew on the dress to help even the spaces of the flowers detail.



After I cut the bias skirt, I had to make sure to hang the skirt on the dress form before I sew to help stretch out the skirt hem. I hang the crystal stone to help it pull even more.



This is my dress on the model, I took this picture before the actual fashion photo shoot day, just for fun because I want to see how it look. But for the professional picture, the background should be in white or black. I can't wait to finish everything and have my dress ready for the photos day.

Fashion 107B Skirt

This is my Fashion 107B Skirt. Fashion 107B is an advance pattern making class. In this class we have to make pattern for a tailor jacket, a skirt, a trouser and a top. Since I'm working on the tailor jacket, my skirt also a tailor skirt so it can be a whole set of tailors make. I chose Herringbone fabric for my jacket and skirt. My collection is influences by the 1940's era. I try to do my skirt as simple as possible because I'm focus on quality more than quanlity. The fit is great, the structure is clean and in shape. I hand stitched the skirt's top stitchs. I was thinking about doing the top stitch like the denim but I think for a tailor skirt, hand make always look better so I tried to stitch by hand and I made the right decision.

3rd Thai's Influences Dress

So, this is my final Thai's influence dress, it took more time than I expected. But I'm happy with the outcome. Compare to the second one, this 3rd one is more fitted, I'm improved working with bias dress. It was struggled at first when i worked on my 1st bias dress but I got great advices from teachers and used experiences to worked on the second one. I think the most important thing when you're working with bias is you have to base everything to make sure the fabric stay in place before you sew. Now I know why bias dress is more expensive compare to straight grain dress; it's reasonable. It took more time and more fabric needed. Putting an invisible zipper on the bias dress is another pain. Just try to base everything and make sure your pattern is accurate, otherwise everything will be mess up and take lot of times.

My second collection, based on the Corset Influences. Corset in the history worn by women under outfit to help created shape of their bodies and make the waist looked smaller. Here we are, in a new century, where we want to wear corset but not under outfit. Now, we wear corset outside, look gorgeous and sexy. Its functions still help create shape of women's bodies like in the history.
Let me have a summary of our projects: 1 step: we chose a category, then we picked Influences, all influences must be relates to each other. Then we picked our company, the companies that we are designing for. Then, we find out our target customers. Next steps are: see our competitor company, see their weekness and strongest. Then figure out our company strongs and improve our weekness to make sure that we will be the winners. I found out my story colors for the season and the first collection. Then we do the first line, my first line is Empire Influences, the second line is Corset influences. You can see that my influences is History era. Then I hand sketched my first lines to creat ideas, after that I picked out dresses that I liked and sketched on Adobe Illustrator. After that, I put them together on a Board, where I also used Adobe Illustrator to created background and shadows. And here it is, my second line: Corset Influences.

Empire Inspire

Welcome to " House of TL", these are my first Empire Collection. I'm inspire by the high waist dresses of the Empire era. Why ? Because high waist dress help petite people look taller, show up women's upper part of her body which make she looks feminine and sexy. It's also hide up women who doesn't have a flat stomach. For my opinion, whenever i'm wearing an Empire Dress, I feel I'm Juliet in Shakespeare. Empire dresses are styles that never fade away by times.
So in this collection, I have three dresses in long length and three are is short length. I also picked a color story for my collection because I've to make sure that it's the right color for the season and it's the right colors for my target customers. My Target Customers are Juniors and misses, from 16 to 30 years olds. They are out going, love shopping and playful. People who are looking for sweet sixteen dresses, occasionals party, cocktail party, weddings, and peagant.
I also using ruffles, rhine stones in this collection because I believe that is a hot trend right now. Women always want to be glowing that's why Diamond is expensive. On a garment, Rhinestone is like women's diamond therefore I want to use rhinestone as a trim for my collections. Ruffle, in another way is helping a garment looks charm and sexy. When a women wear something with ruffle, she looks like a flower.

So, I haven't updated my blog to share with you the great new that I got a job as an assistant designer at DJ Bronson, one of a evening, dresses for junior. Yayyy, one more class away from finishing my fashion education and I've got a job. It was the most happiest day of my life.

Forever young skirt.

From the last Spring Refreshing skirt that I made, I had half yard of fabric left over so I sew this mini skirt. It's very easy and if you're fast enough you can make this skirt in less than 15 mins. All you need is just fabric, lining fabric and an elastic for the waist band. The fabric lenghth is depends on how long you want your skirt to be, mine is just about 15 or less (inches). First, I sew the lining and the self fabric together. Then I sew the side seams of the lining and the self. Then, I sew the waist band and connected the waist band to the skirt. Make sure that the waist band and the skirt is evenly divided so that it is in the correct shape of the skirt. And finally, all I have to finish was the hem of the skirt and the lining. It doesn't sound complicated right ? In less than 15 minutes you will finish a skirt that you can wear with any tank top you like. If you are a teen style, you can actually make a bow out of the same fabric as the self, or you can use a different color bow so that it will bring up more on your skirt. If you are more of a modern, sexy style, you can combine the skirt with a waist band. You can wear under the top or on top. It's all depends on you and your style. Summer is here, I hope you enjoy this nice season with some cute skirts that you can wear to the beach, on street, or school. Have a nice summer!

TL Accessories

This is my accessorries' wallpaper, I combined my collection in here. Feel free to leave any comment or any advice, thank you for your visitting.

ACCESSORIES

During my leissures times in last summer, I was so bored and had nothing to do so I came up with an idea of making accessories. And here it come, my Earing collections. I bought beads, pearls( fresh water pearl) and findings(Sterling silver) at a Jewelry finding store where they gave me 50% off. I started on my project by bought tools and did some researchs on accessories. I came up with these ideas naturally because I liked something simple and cute. With these earing, you can wear and combine them with any kinds of clothes you would like to wear. I love pearls and black beads because I believe black is a very mystery color and it's a universal because it will go with anything. My skills has been better and better each time I finished a whole set of earings. I also like to use Sterling Silver for my collection because I got irritate when I wear plastic or iron findings. I knew a lot of people who also get irritate with other metals, but Sterling and real gold is the best choice for those people. I had more than what I show up here but I had giving some away to relatives and friends. My summer was meaningful to me since I kept myself busy and also bring joys to other people as I gave these earings to them. Life is Beautiful!

2nd Thailand Influences Dress

This is my second Thai's influences Dress, but this time it's in shorter length. It's one side shoulder but to the right, because the left side need to have an invisible zipper. It has pleated on the back with lining under. It was a little struggle for me because the lining inside kept pulling down the self fabric outside I think there was a problem with the pattern. I adjusted the pattern a little because the arm hold dropped, since my mark pin was removed by someone. Tried to match the waistband side seam was tricky. Now, I really now how important a pattern is, because if the pattern got a problem, the whole thing mess up and instead of complete an assignment in 1 day, it will take 3 days.

Thailand Influences Ethnic Dress

Beads and Constrast Fabric, which one is better for the neck line?
you'll see the answer on the final dress.





My second Thailand's influences dress is on the way. This time, I designed it in shorter length. Target customer is still the same, Women from 35 to 50. Elegant and simple style. The fabric that I used is Crepe Satin. The only thing I changed is the flap over the shoulder and maybe I will add beads to my design. I was kind of debate between contrast fabric and beads, but I'll go with beads since it makes the dress looks elegant and powerful. Tell me what do you think? or feel free to give comments, because it's a way of learning.

Spring Refeshing with a Lining - Pleat-Skirt

The first 3 weeks of Spring semester were busy, we had lot of things to do but it's a good chance for me to review what I've done before. I'm so excited on our projects, creating a fashion line is really fun. I feel like I'm ready to explore in fashion's industry. To help me remember what've learned about lining a skirt, I created a mini pleated skirt. It's from 100% cotton, $1.99/yard. Navy with white dots. I used the idea of a Pleat-skirt in Pattern's book. I also used Invisible zipper for closure. Everything fit, and it fits me, yeahh!

Spring Refreshing sewing skills with a lining skirt.

This is a Christmas dress that I designed for my great niece in Christmas 2009. It was very simple and easy to make. I was so excited after I learned how to do a lining for a dress in Fashion 1B. After the final, I went to Joann's fabric store and got this red satin. I had a busy schedule for my holidays, so i couldn't think of anything too complicated and that was how the little red dress came out. But my great niece looked great on it. I bet she had a wonderful time with her special present. And I had a great chance to review my lining skills in Fashion 1B, even though i didn't rest after the final. Fashion is too funs!!!

This is an Ethnic influences dress that i designed in November 2009; based on the Thailand costume's dress. It had a flap over the shoulder and draped down to the back, which created a back focus look. The top bodice was strapless and had boning inside. This was created for classic women, who likes simples but elegant looks. I used the Crepe Satin for the self fabric, and light satin for lining.