New Year Resolution

Illustration by Omar Yusuf

Happy New Year People!

This is just a quick post to share my new year resolutions..."do people still do that?" yep, I still do. Last year my resolution was Eat, Pray and Love...yep, from the Julian Robert movie. I was inspired by the movie even though I'd not seen it, still haven't...but hey, you can be inspired by just a movie title. So Eat, Pray and Love it was, but I wouldn't say it was much of a success, so I'm carrying it over to '12.
In addition to that, I want to start wearing more of heels. It's easy to get addicted to the comfort of flats, but the sophistication of heels is beyond measure...we all need it at a point or the other.
Then there is also my resolution to blog more often. And this is where I say a big thank you to all my readers, I see you all. You guys have been encouraging even though I've been lazy.
Thank you all, and cheers to the fr$%*ing new year!

Prada, Prints and Moi

Hi all, it'd been a while. I have been busy with school projects as usual, but once again I'm not complaining. Thought I'd share one of my projects with you guys. I like to think this particular project shows my creative side. I wouldn't call myself a designer but designing appeals to me. The project was to create a print orientation for a high end fashion brand. And of course I chose Prada, simply because Miuccia Prada and I have a thing in common, we both studied Political science...hahaha. On a serious note though, I love Prada, the brand manages to combine creativity and commercial savviness. And when it comes to prints, Prada does not conform to the usual, instead it goes avant garde.

But while the prints are artsy and innovational, the lines and cuts of garments are not too fussy...a good balance I think.

So I got inspired by music and came up with my mood board showing my color and print orientations for Prada for Spring Summer '13 I guess.

As you can see, the interpretation of my inspiration is quite literary...how genius (haha). Prada did the fish/mermaid prints, Monkey/banana prints, the car prints...so may be it's going to be music tape prints next summer, just a suggestion Miuccia.

And if you are wondering what H&M is doing on my mood board, it is simply that for every high end concept there's a high street "interpretation", so I came up with a variation of the print for H&M...actually it was part of the project.

Finally, the prints in outfits:

My sketches are not the most amazing, but not bad I must say. Ok, that will be it for today...hopefully not for the week. Au revoir.

Identifying yourself...

I am Damie and I’m a standard UK size 6, in Nigeria that makes me a skinny butt girl...I mean lady...which used to make me uncomfortable(I must confess still does every now and then) considering the fact that our mother land favours curves to skinniness, but I’ve learnt to embrace my ‘not-so-curvy-kate mossish’ body! Guess what...so can you embrace that body of yours! No matter the shape, size, length or breadth...it’s yours, love it!
Identifying yourself is accepting the body you have, keeping it healthy, playing up your assets and hiding your flaws and walking in confidence...confidence is key, and it’s ok to fake it till you feel it!
Do NOT indulge in self deceit. What do I mean?...you stand in front of the mirror every morning, you see yourself and say to yourself “I’m a size 12” when you know you’re definitely a size 14. I work in a fashion house and I find it amusing when ladies come in and claim to be a certain size, only to try on a dress in that size and they can’t fit in...that is not cool ladies! So stop saying you’ree an 8 when you’re a 6,or a 12 when you’re a 14...you don’t wanna look frumpy in over sized clothes or like a pig about to burst out of its skin in under sized clothes. Accept your size and work with what you’ve got ;)

Illustration by Omar Yusuf