longevity

"There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked." Vivienne Westwood

Being a designer in the 21st Century is as much about creating something timeless as it is about creating something aesthetically pleasing. The difficulty comes when we conform too much to the fashions in the world around us such as the latest fads for brash colours and crude imagery.

I am encouraged to use WGSN resources within my work so that it has the possibility of being a viable product but sometimes I ask myself: Why cant I create something that will set the fashion and not follow it?

At this point in time I have no clue whether my work has the possibility of giving me a career or whether it was merely 3 years of my life where I had a good time and made some fabric samples that will sit in my portfolio under my bed for the rest of my life.

I have had to make the decision to not rely on the idea of becoming a designer. At the moment I am probably going to end up working in retail. Maybe retail management one day but probably never as an actual designer.

The sad thing is that some of my work is bloody good and it doesn't deserve to gather dust. I think my mission is to get seen and try and find a way of making ends meet without ending up completely miserable.

I want my work to be the sort of stuff people lie in bed thinking about and imagining in their lives. I want someone to see one of my designs and go home and think about it because it was unlike anything else they had seen but would fit in perfectly with their style.

here's hoping.