Thursday 29 September 2011

The little Island that could

the little island that could is my lovely friend maritas Blog its brilliant and funny and eductaional, you just cant lose! if you need more persuading she says:


I am one half Australian and one half Kiribati. I grew up in Australia and I recently admitted to myself that my knowledge on Kiribati is a bit crap.  What/where is is Kiribati you say?  Well my standard answer is that it is a tiny group of islands halfway between Australia and Hawaii – so pretty much in the middle of the Pacific, the middle of nowhere.
My other ways of describing this tiny, wonderful country are:
  • It’s has the International Date Line and the equator running through it
  • 3 hours flight Fiji
  • Next door to Nauru
  • The people have the skin colour of the Fijians and hair like the Hawaiians
So in short, it’s a really small group of islands in the middle of nowhere.  Now as proud as I am that one half of me comes from there, I’m rubbish at the language, I haven’t spent longer than 2 months there EVER (a fact that I am very ashamed about), I don’t know all my family members (even though there honestly about 100, this is no excuse) and I haven’t been to the smaller outer islands.  Even writing these points down, I find this extremely embarrassing.  To top this off, reports have been stating for a good while that the main islands may not exist due to climate change and rising sea waters.  This is where my education needs to hike itself up a level.
A country that I am from may disappear in less than 100 years.  Bit shit really.
So this is my quest to learn more about climate change, my culture, my family and everything that is related to Kiribati.  I am hoping to get to Kiribati late 2011 or early 2012 but in the meantime I will potter away on this little blog, trawl the net, talk to people and investigate everything about the islands.  Eventually I am hoping to make a documentary on how Kiribati is very much a victim of climate change and tell other people about the wonderful people who’s homes are threatened by waves getting higher and higher.
Finally, I’m going to do my best to make sure I write in the most comprehensive and most direct way possible.  I hate reading articles that make me feel sillier for not being able to understand so I’m going to do my best to explain to myself (and you lovely people that bother to read this) in laymans terms.  No big words, nothing fussy just simple and  easy to read.  If it looks like I’m getting too big for my boots by all means let me know and I’ll appreciate the feedback and turn it down a notch.
Marita

NICE THANGS

luxurious

wings


some sketches I did for a Job which isnt happening now for some wings, this happens alot in the industry, you do a lot of preparation, and clear your diary for a Job which doesnt happen, its no-ones fault really just frustrating when you get really into an idea and it doesn't happen!

amazing

Sunday 18 September 2011

London Fashion Week CULIETTA at Somerset house

heres my work on the Bloody Gray press stand looking laaaaaarrrrrvley!

behind the scenes

just found an old behind the scenes shot from the last lookbook haha

the big pink video stills

lots of paint and glittr throwing in this one! Prepped the whole thing in a day, ridiculous but unfortunately necessary as we were working on the totally enormous extinct dino project just before, it came out really well though, looks beautiful and im really pleased!

Th Big Pink, stay gold production design

Teed dinosaurs 'gardn' production design and headpiece



TEED dinosaurs 'gardn' production design and headpiece

love this video, I did the prroduction design and made the headpiece which i really enjoyed making, it was one of those jobs where you literally eat sleep and shit the work for 12 days, it was a pretty quick turnaround!

Wednesday 14 September 2011

RINGS!

mmmmmmmmmmmm

FNO outfit

I wore the new collction shoelery and and headpiece and crystal rings from the previous collection with a full length skirt i made! and sam edelman shoe boots with their harnesses taken off an american apparel sheer top and leather jacket.
so there you go, i really hate posting piccis of myself becuase people are invariably rude as im probably about 3 stone heavier than your average 'fashion' blogger!

Wednesday 7 September 2011

Collar Clip as featured in ELLE UK. BOOM!


so super duper spiffingly excited to have a piece in ELLE, my sister and I have always been ELLE girls ever since we were 13 so its so amazing to get some press with them. Ta to the girlzz at Bloody Gray. So, erm buy it and frame it and put it all around the house and in strategic positions and like read it on the bus so everyone can see?!

Elle magazine features a CULIETTA collar clip