First Day of School

Well it was sort of my first day of school today (9-29-09) but it was mainly getting us into groups for a project. So this is how it started: some where around 300 students either in womenswear, menswear, fashion jewelry, or textiles were crammed into a very small canteen (a.k.a. cafeteria), which soon became unbearably hot. We were then herded like cattle to another room where we were split up into smaller groups and then given a project. The project is comprised of two pieces: a) deconstruct/ reconstruct- we were given 4 vintage garments and we, as a team of six, are supposed reconstruct them into a new outfit; b) Research- this is where we as a team are supposed to go explore places of reference around London, such as museums, department stores and boutiques and what not. Some how our group got messed up and we ended up with 6 people instead of 5 and not only that we had too many womenswear designers (4 in total when there we only supposed to be 2), 2 textile designers and no fashion jewelry person. On top of this none of them can really sew, I don’t think any of them can draft their own patterns and so it might end up with me doing all the technical work. Fun times are ahead……