my underwater photoshoot

This is the makeup I chose for the photoshoot to represent the traditional mood of Chinese Culture.









From these shoot druing the photoshoot, it is easy to see that it is a very difficult photoshoot. It is such a hard work for the photographer and the models especially in a not heated swimming pool. Also it is really hard to control the photoshoot quality because of time limitation to dive inside the water. But I am very happy with the red colour inside the water with such a good looking contract, which suprised me during the photoshoot.

third outfit

The above two photos are thep photos of my toile of the third outfit. As there is really not enough time left to toil perfectly for the final, I just focus on the fit on the toil and once it is fit then I started my final.




This is the final outcome of my third outift , the wraped chifon around the top represent the river's bride is been force to be drown (tied up and threw into the river). If I have more time to finishing the garment, I will more focus on the high quality finishing. The finishing of this outfit really need to be improved. But if just talk about the look, I am happy with it.

dye experience

In order to represent the cruel of river's bride custom, I tried to dye my final head accessary with blood print. Firstyly, I mix the dye power with hot water and filled in a spray bottle. After this, start spray on the pannel and at the same time drip some water on it to creat the blood dripping affect. The outcome really looked like blood at the first time, but after it is dried, the colour changed, it becomes like the blood is dried, which the colour is dark red. But I still like the outcome, bcoz it is like a process of blood change when people just died and dead after a few hours.

second outfit with its accessary

These above 2 photos shows the toile of my second outfit dress, which is build with a simple sihourette. The only concern of this design is the top, As this design has no shoulder and sleeve, it is really hard to leave it fit on the body without dropping down.



This two photos show the toile of the accessary of this outfit. this accessary just sit on the sholder and going to sew with some pearls on it.

This shows how I machine the organza onto the sholder part of the accesary. It took me whole day to finish all the machining of the organza attaching.


This is the finished look with the organza of the accessary. I really happy with the feather affect that create by the orangza. it matches the soft mood of water, which is one of my inspiration.


Hand attaching the peals on the chiffon part of the accessary. I really concern the heaviness of the pearls that will damage the chiffon, so I have hand stiching a lot to make sure the pearls are secure.


This is the final outcoome fo my second outfit. but what I was concern has happen, the top is not very secure that may drop if the model's body shape is different, but at least this size fit my model of the photoshoot which is lucky.

sateen dress and 2nd accessary

The above two photos show how I figured about the drapping curve in the dress by cutting a full circle skirt but different length in both sides. This sounds easy, but I was struggled for it 2 days and 1 day toil to prove that slash and open is not enough to create this effect.

This is my final toil of the sateen dress, and I pin on the dress to make it more fit on the body by creating darts in the front and reduce the side.

I also design an tag in the back top which matching with the button darts.

This is the final of my sateen dress unlay with chiffon. But the only thing that I am not happy about is the shouler is too narrow to support the whole dress, as the dress is made by full circle skirt with around 3 metres fabric on the button. If I have got time to make another one, I will change the width of the shoulder to give more support.



I also made one accessary to match the dress. It is such a hard to hard work to create the feather affect.... I pin them for 3 hours and have to hand cut all these little feather shape.

This is the final look of the whole outfit. the accessary can be for head or use as scarf, I really happy with the whole outfit look. It is very in a mood of river's bride.

Vera wang

Vera Wang is famous as Wedding Queene, her wedding dress is every woman's dream. As I am also designing wedding dress in this collection, Vera Wang's designs are one of my preferances. From the above photos, let's look at the use of material. Tulle, chiffon, organza, sateen and silk satin. That is the reason why I am going to use this 3 fabrication in my collection to give the mood of wedding. But the different between my wedding dress and Vera Wang's wedding dress is that my design still will reflect the Chinese wedding culture and the river's bride custom. There, red will be the main colour rather than white. Also in the design of the dress will be more focus on presenting the crule of the river's bride custome rather than the happiness and romance which shown in Vera Wang's wedding dress.

my first accessary comes from.....

Refered from the head accessary for Chinese Wedding, I decided to make an head accessary for my collection, which is base on the red clothe on the head. The reason of using read clothe for head accessary in Chinese wedding is that read clothe is believed to bring good luck to the couples and is an neccessary part in Chinese wedding culture.



As what we have seen in the wedding photos, pearl is one of the main material in head accessary, that is why I am going to use pearl in my whole collection as a link.





This is the sketch of my design, the red spot stands for the blood print in the head accessary to show the crule of this River's bride custom. The main difficulty of this garment will be how to make it stand up by its own. I have to tried some different strong bonding.


This is the first toile of my head accessary, but it is easy to see that it cannot fit in people's head, because the neck part is too narrow to alwo the face and head get in. Also, I used the sewing bonding for this one, but it was not stronge enough to keep it stand up. So I have to look for another type of bonding.


After 2 toiles, this one came out as my final toile, it finally able to stand up with the steel bonding instead of the sewinng bonding. However, it is easy to find out that the neck part sitll not as fit as sitting flat on the body. But the effect of sitting on the neck is very interesting and I am not going to change the pattern and lost this effect.


It also still have the dangerous of falling back from the back of the head, beause the bonding is too heavy on the back. To solve this problem, I extend the length of the accessarty to the bust point, which showed below.


After I extend the lenth, the head accessary toil finally sucess and going to step into final!
It really took me so long to make this accessary happened, even though the drawing is very easy. 3 weeks of work are all in these toils.