DO IT DIY IT

Looking From Head-to-Toe, Would You Know?

Most of the time when I come up with ideas to make clothing, I sit with the idea, sketch out options, and conceptualize all of the pattern pieces in my mind until I know EXACTLY how I'm going to attack it. I guess I have a geometric sort of mind, where I like to visualize sleeves and bodices coming together almost like a puzzle. I was never formally trained on how to make clothes, and all of my patterns are in San Francisco, so attempting something like, oh lets say, a jacket - is rather daunting. Nonetheless, last night it was time.

The inspiration was a cross between Rad Hourani, Rick Owens, and Helmut Lang. The material was leftover sweatshirt jersey (for the body of the jacket) that I brought from San Francisco, and a pair of shiny leggings that never fit right and I never wore to act as the sleeves. The point was to make an extra comfortable jacket that had different looks when it was open and closed. I'm usually a minimalist when it comes to mixing fabrics (one fabric the whole way through, please!!) but I've been longing extra tightly fitted shiny sleeves, so thats where the leggings fabric came into play.

I made this sequined pentagram dress a little bit over one year ago.

Pockets are very important to me.






Maybe it could use a heavy metal wing shoulderpiece?


& since everybody's been freaking about about the "invisible shoes", I thought it might be appropriate to don these customized stripper shoes that I made for the first issue of LURVE Margazine one year ago.