Perfect DIY lace shorts

3rd April 2011

I have been wanting a pair of lace shorts for so long – but never found the perfect ones (within my price range). And so I designed these, I chose the cutest lace and put in belt loops so I could add a little ribbon belt. I am in love. Can’t wait to show you all the others things that came.

Wearing: handmade shorts, vintage camel silk tee, mango boots

DIY AW11 Balmain Inspired Mini

22nd March 2011

So it goes without saying that I was incredibly inspired throughout the fashion weeks to DIY just about everything I saw on the Runway. So, in collaboration with the Jenni from I Spy DIY and Erica and Lauren from Honestly…Wtf, we set about recreating our favourite AW11 looks. I completely fell in love with the shimmering horizontally textured fabrics in the Balmain AW11 collection. Who didn’t? What I wouldn’t do to own one of those dresses or statement jackets! Knowing that’s completely out of the realms of possibility, as part of the 3 Designers 3 DIYs challenge I decided to make my own textured skirt using lace, ribbons, twisted fabric, beads and sequins.

These skirts below were my inspiration from the Balmain Show AW11, as you can see mine turned out a bit a little bit more subtle than the Balmain version.

The skirt was incredibly easy to make. This is how you do it:
You need: a black mini skirt (I bought a long skirt from a thrift shop and cut it off and sewed a hem), black lace, beads, ribbons, strips of black chiffon fabric, square sequins and anything else you want! The more random the better!
1. Sew or glue (I used a combination of both) the different ribbons etc onto the front of the skirt – keeping in horizontally parallel lines.
2. Sew twisted black chiffon fabric onto the front.
3. Randomly sew the sequins on the front – I put mine in the middle of the twisted fabric.
4. Do this to the back of the skirt, following the pattern on the front. Easy!

Even Jason Wu DIYs!

22nd February 2011

Ok so after I wrote this title I realised how stupid it sounded – of course Jason Wu DIYs, except for him its called DESIGNING and he’s obviously effing brilliant at it. Oh well, was very excited to stumble across these images of Jason Wu in his studio adding the lace to his AW11 collection – in exactly the same way that I recommended you do in this post. Ok so obviously that’s not an accomplishment as he obviously thought of it first, but happy to see that we’re on the same wave length. Do. It. Yoself.

Image: Jak & Jil