Belated MA Show Pics and Congratulations

Homemade Couture: 111 Years of Vogue Patterns by Sophie Wood (me!)

Styling and Absence by Tory Turk

An Oral History of Marit Allen by Shonagh Marshall who is also taking part in the V&A's Oral History seminar in the summer.

An exploration of the 5 senses in fashion exhibitions by Michelle Carpenter

Satirical Sartorial Jenna Rossi-Casmus, author of blog http://shatteredsilkblog.blogspot.com and winner of an LCF prize *claps*

She Wears Her Pain by Amy Bluett.Fashion and feminism meet in Amy's hand drawn version of 'The Gallery of English Costume'

It’s all over! The display at the Mall Galleries was a total success and I even got to speak to Sarah Harris, the features writer at Vogue about my work on Vogue Patterns. I am still obsessed with Vogue Patterns and dressmaking and need to decide where to take it next.

Special thankyous go to Nilgin Yusuf for introducing me to Sarah, course tutors and super curators Amy de la Haye and Judith Clarke and everyone on the course for creating such a beautiful exhibition. And CONGRATULATIONS on their results to all the MA graduates at LCF this year.

MA finished, back to blogging

After starting this blog with the best of intentions, by the end of September I realised that having a full time job, doing my MA Final Project and running a shiny new blog was a bit much.

I studied Fashion Curation pathway so my project took the form of a exhibition proposal and accompanying academic essay. Below is an introduction to my project:

"Homemade Couture: 111 Years of Vogue Patterns will be one of the very few exhibitions to privilege the paper dress making pattern as an object worthy of study and display. In order to do this I have chosen to use one of the most recognizable names in fashion, Vogue. The exhibition will take the form of a company history in order to explore the changing nature and relevance of the Vogue Pattern Company. Vogue Patterns was established in 1899 and this exhibition will be held in 2010, making Vogue Patterns 111, it doesn’t have to be a landmark birthday to celebrate a companies achievements. I chose to focus on paper patterns because of the creativity they allowed the women who use them with regard to fabric choice, skirt length etc, the fact that paper patterns, especially Vogue Patterns, show how designer styles and trends were presented to the mass population and because patterns have their own particular style of illustration which can provide a record of how women are illustrated and presented throughout the 20th Century."

The MA is not quite over yet, there is still the London College of Fashion MA exhibition which will be held at the Mall Galleries, London from 2nd-5th of Feb. So please come down to see the work.