Playing around with sketching and photoshop to make cards this Christmas! Not sure how they'll turn out but I'm liking this one so far. Somehow I always make tons of cards but get so carried away making them that I don't send them out. It's quite a terrible habit actually.
Christmas cards
The next stage
It feels weird now that the semester is ending (only 1 accounting final left!). But now it's on to greater and better things - I've slowly realized that I'm a workaholic. I think many people can attest to that.
Anyhoo, I've been playing around with the idea of going into production with some of the pieces I made for the fashion show. Many people gave me great feedback and comments (thank you so much!) and some wanted to buy the pieces off me. However, after talking to people and doing some research online, I decided that it'll be really hard to go into production. This is because I'll only be in New York for 5 or 6 more months before I go back to Singapore for good. The amount of money that has to go into pattern and sample making just doesn't seem quite worth it at this point and I'm completely risk averse. Haha. I'll probably start doing something more large-scale once I'm back in Asia and closer to cheaper production facilities.
In the meantime, I'll try to bring my samples to Henri Bendel's open calls if I can to see if I can get a lucky break. Basically what happens is that the buyers hold open calls for designers once in a while and if they like your stuff, they order them from you on the spot. And then you go into production. They've kicked off the careers of Anna Sui and many others so it's an amazing opportunity. But then the line is always round the block for the whole day and out of hundreds, only a couple of designs are chosen each time. We'll see how that goes :)
Also, last night I decided to scale down my designs and focus on cotton and jersey stretch dresses and tops for sale instead. I plan to buy a serger (a machine that creates finished seams and makes the job much faster) and start making simple nice designs to sell. This way I can do things in my free time and sell dresses to raise funds for the orphanage in Africa I volunteered at in the summer. Starting small seems much less daunting and more manageable for me.
FBA Fall Fashion Show Video
The video is here! It isn't the proper one - my friend filmed it for me with Jane's camcorder - but I'll load up the professional one if I get my hands on it. Enjoy!
And as usual, they spelt my name wrongly.
Interview for a newsletter
The newsletter for the Fashion Business Association at school just came out and my interview with one of the writers was published:
I especially like this part:
"...Michele Ng was the talented and innovative forerunning designer whose extremely wearable and aesthetically pleasing collection was chosen for FBA's Fall Fashion Show advertisements."The writer was such a genius with her words. It wasn't really a big deal I feel.
The fashion show is over and I'll be loading up the video this weekend once Jane finds the wire to her camcorder. She is such an incredible roommate-slash-friend :)
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