alternative fashion week

i'm so excited about alternative fashion week. The collection is going to consist of a single piece from everyone's collections, the outfit colour tying it all together. The is Black. The collection title is ' Black is the new Black'. Its no real extra work, we have all just made our toils in black for our first outfits. I'm excited to have my outfit show cased in London though, as we as a university have been denied a place at Graduate Fashion Week this year. it real stinks as our year are so industry focused that i think we would have done the university proud, maybe even won some awards! never mind! i just hope some job oppertunities come from this Fashion event. This is my illustration for my black outfit. Its a 1950's inspired cocktail dress. My collection is based on my family, my nan and grandad inparticular. I wanted a collection that was exciting, eye catching and an eclectic mix of ideas. My nan is english and my granda is russian, so i have drwn inspiration from them. Focusing on the 1950's, when they got married, i'm using the english house wife as main inspiration. I'm also using the matryoshka nesting dolls as my russian craft influence. Both simbolise the house wife. I'm taking a glamours approach to my ideas, mixing evening cocktail dress with long embellished floral t-shirts, mixing the fanticy and reallity of the house wife. I'm mixing coloured metalics with plain white jersey and floral cottons. My collection is aimed at the 18-25 market, and is a spring/summer collection. At the moment everything is going to plan, but i'm not going to jinx myself......