Katelyn Aslett 

As I have said in a previous post I am beginning to work for the internationally recognized designer Katelyn Aslett. Recently she was featured in the Sydney fashion Palette... In Sydney. 

As a little tutorial for some of you less savvy speakers in the shit that fashion girls say; the Sydney Fashion Palette is the weekend before Fashion week Australia. Just as a Palette would be served in a restaurant it gives you options and a taste for what is to come next. The weekend was most certainly a scrumptious freaking taste for the fashion festival that followed.

  

Back onto Katelyn Aslett: I have here both the insight into the garments and the runway images. Personally I will always be the cheerleaderfor team Aslett (even if I don’t have the legs for a cheer-leading uniform) who am I kidding, I do, but this was a top notch collection that showed.

The show was hot to go H-O-T. T-O. G-O woo hot to go.

The prints featured on the garments were hand crafted art works by Katelyn which was then later photographed and printed onto the fabric you see here. Other then the printed fabric every other aspect of the garments are hand made, through the process of felting wool Katelyn produces a beautiful and usually surprising outcome. All garments are Katelyn Aslett Originals made with blood, sweat and tears... literally.

For every reader out there you need to imagine that I was watching these garments come to life in what seemed like a war zone. From panicking over the material arriving on time to frantically hand stitching the beading on garments, when it came to the end it was all worth it. Sorry to sound like a Disney film but it really was a happy ending. Except in the Disney film I wouldn’t have had wisdom teeth out one day before the show.   

From much chaos in the beginning of the design stage to ending in total serenity on the cat walk. 

Yellow godet skirt and White bodice

Palazzo Pants with matching sheer halter neck top

Collage print cigarette pants with beaded sheer top

Egyptian beaded shift dress

Collage print maxi dress

Black bodice with white maxi skirt

Black one shouldered beaded dress

Black beaded mini dress

All white poncho dress

 Angel dress

The end

How to turn this blog post into a drinking game. Take a shot for every time I said Katelyn Aslett.

The End.

Da Ville Yo

Sometimes I pride myself on proper grammar; I was often labelled as that kid who corrected friends Facebook post when necessary. Your and You’re haven’t different meanings and people need to learn this. But the self confessed spell checker in me only sometimes comes out. In all honesty I live off spell check. F7 is my homeboy.

Okay that confessional rant was directed to my use of slang in the blog title. In white boy language it reads “Im back in Townsville!”

 For those of you who don’t know what/where Townsville is, Let me explain. It is a little ole’ city with poor shopping options; locals refer to the store Universal as the god of upcoming trends, no one knows what General pants is, Op shopping is often shunned like leprosy. Basically vans and basketball jerseys in Townsville are the equivalent to skinny jeans and Doc Martens in Brisbane.  Sad but true. Caution: I could be over exaggerating slightly I’m awesome.

Why oh why am I back in Townsville you may ask? It’s because that I now have a position working for the wonderful Katelyn Aslett: with a heart of gold and a love of Harry Potter we will be working side by side as the two Amigo’s, the two blind mice, etc. So between charity work, internships, part time work, an upcoming Townsville fashion week, casual lion taming and whatever else that will make me appear well rounded, I will be dedicating my time and energy all to this lovely lady and her funky designs. Believe you and me they make you want to say groovy, far out man, keep on truckin’ and what ever other 70’s lingo that has rubbed off on you from your heavily dated parents such as mine. Unlike the lingo though, Katelyn Asletts designs are far from being dated, instead they bring a fresh energy into the world.

How could anyone truely resist this. Townsville is the hidden gem of Queensland.

So for now stay tuned for pictures and post here and there -

It will all happen soon enough my pretties. Now fly, fly away!

That was a Wizard of Oz reference for some of you clueless kids. Idiots.