Accept and Prosper (Art School style)

Who knew the first day of a Fashion and Textile Design degree at Art School would involve making a travel adapter out of cardboard and wire? For one, not me. As much as I wanted to get straight into the design process and start working on my own line this week has taught me that this first year at Art School won't involve that at all. This at first frustrated me hugely because I came here to learn exactly that. Why should I spend a week making a huge travel adapter which incorporated the word "stretch"? Why should I draw an object in 2D to then make that 2D drawing into a 3D sculpture? I wondered why I was being taken back to what seemed like simple, primary-school-like projects when I had already designed fashion/textile pieces at Higher and Adv Higher without doing so? Having realised it wasn't going to work like that anymore I began to understand why we're doing these projects which, at first, seemed extremely pointless and a waste of time.

Getting past my frustration I began to see the real reason for doing them. These projects will develop how I go about the creative process; how I see and visualise things and help me understand the difference between these words - something I had never thought about before. To fully understand the design process we must first take a step back to move forward. First lesson of Art School = check.

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Teenage Kicks

Jacket - H&M; Skirt - ZARA;
Trainers and bag - Nike; 
Top - Calvin Klein or the mens underwear section in TKMaxx.

Trip to LANDAN. Ever since my first visit to London almost 2 years ago (when I was interning for two weeks at the Primark HO) I fell in love with the city, its atmosphere, the architecture, the shops, everything, even the Underground (lol wut). Cliched as it may be I felt at home in London. As a young, innocent 15 year old spending two weeks without family in London was not scary and not once was I homesick. The huzbuzz of the city intrigued me and ever since I've wanted more.

In this picture you see me sporting my new nike trainers which i've NOT ONCE taken off since I bought them in Amsterdam (slight exaggeration but you get the point). Also apologies for the ridiculously bad quality of this picture. Do you realise how much pressure and stress it involves to take a decent outfit pic in Gatwick Airport toilets without being seen? Virtually impossible - my mother photobombed my second attempt.

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Name Changer

You know that post I made like a month ago about a new blog name - I've got it. I have now moved from Pieternel Baak to PIEPS - A - PORTER.  See y'all there.

Tea with Dali

More pictures from my visit to Rotterdam a few weeks ago. We visited the Boijmans Museum which was lovely. The entire collection was very surrealist and featured work from the likes of Salvadore Dali and Piet Mondrian to the work of v current artists like Paul Noble. Sadly my phone ran out of battery (because I forgot to charge it. Idiot) so I couldn't take a lot of pictures. The Paul Noble exhibition especially would have been lovely to photograph as his work was on such a vast scale and it was put together beautifully as an exhibit. Defs one of my favourites to date.

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ROTTERDAM - Hotel New York

Hotel New York is located on the Kop-van-Zuid in Rotterdam, Nederland. Because most of Rotterdam was flattened during the war most buildings are post 1945. HNY is an exception and it is really lovely to see an important historic building in the midst of new development (see the fire station in the first image which is almost ON TOP of HNY). 

The croquette you can see in the last image is the Dutch "kroket" (made with beef and other stuff i'd rather not know about). However it is a must to try and also usually the first thing I eat (and smell and see) when I arrive in Nederland.

I'd also like to apologise for the quality of my photos in all previous posts and most future posts; (a) I take them with my iPhone, (b) I can't afford a camera and (c) I'm even more terrible at taking pictures than I am at dancing (which is so bad it actually improves when I'm not sober).

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