Hey everyone! I cannot believe that I am writing this post but I am finally done with my Aspen Collection! The 10th look was completed today and I decided to go with one of my original sketches instead of switching designs as I had previously wanted to do. This look is a cape/shawl top with a high-waisted straight leg pant. I used this cozy brown knit for the top and a brown suiting material for the bottom. Both pieces also have the teal suede-like fabric as the quilted details. I am in love with the way that the teal and the brown went together! It looks so rich to me and is a color combination that I can honestly say that I have never worked with before. I photographed the pants on a table because as before, they just don't look right on the dress form and I also took pictures of the top so here they are!
These past few months have absolutely flown by and looking back I still cannot believe that I have managed to design, pattern, illustrate, flat sketch and construct 10 complete looks and 9 different accessories. I am so excited to go back to Cincinnati and photograph them all on my model! I still have an accessory or two in my mind that I might make up quick, but those will only add to the collection at this point. I know I originally wanted to use gold heat sealed studs as accents on the quilted details of each look, but now that the pieces are done I am really happy that I didn't. I think that they would have been distracting and hard to place so that they made sense with each piece. Being being a designer means coming up with a ton of ideas and knowing how and when to edit them down into something that really works and I think I really was able to accomplish that with this collection.
I will be packing like mad and traveling the next few days back to Cincinnati but within the next week or two, once I am able to fit and tailor the looks to my model, I will be photographing them and putting them up on here so make sure you check them out! As always, thanks for reading!
-xoxo Hillary C.
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