Over this past month I have been working on this tule ballerina skirt. I finally finished it & so I designed a shoot around it! I chose an enchanted forest feel with a bit of edge in styling. My good friend Tricia took all these beautiful photographs!
Skirt: Kassinka
Top: Forever 21
Tights: Zara
Belt: H&M
Start off with applying a small amount of concealer to, nude them up. Also it helps to change your lip shape with lip liner.
Use a red lip pencil that matches & outline your lips in the shape you desire. Plus for a longer lasting hold, you can fill your entire lip with the same lip pencil. The pigment from the lip pencil holds the color longer, acting as a perfect base.
Apply the red lipstick straight from the bullet. One layer is all you need. If you apply too much, it can smear or bleed.
Use a matte powder with a soft blending brush, and press the powder onto the lips. This will create a matte effect and will also make your lip color last longer. If you prefer shine, skip.
Apply concealer around the corners of your lips to create smooth lines.
4During last year I took on an extra project in my surface design class. I had four meters of beautiful silk & painted it with blues and purples. This dress is a dramatic runway piece! I wanted to style a shoot & video that followed the same theme, so created the backdrop & designed her hair and make-up to match! Enjoy
Model: Rachael Moorthy
This video will show you how to do three hairstyles that I love. They are cute & easy to recreate! The first hairstyle is a half-up fishtail braid, second is, a rosette inspired hairstyle & thirdly a double half-up fishtail hairstyle. I really hope you enjoy this video & it helped you learn these pretty hairstyles.
xxo
Love, Kassandra
6My first time wearing leather pants and must say, that it won’t be my last, especially since I found these perfect ones, I love how they are edgy and make a statment. I am also into tiger prints on tee’s & sweaters, I fell in-love with this knit sweater when I saw all of it’s beautiful embroidery.
Top: H&M
Bottom: ZARA
Scarf: H&M
Shoes: Steve Madden
Finally! after months of editing & filming I am able to share with you a huge project I’ve been working on! During April of last year I finish my Fashion Design Diploma! After completing it, I had an idea of making a fashion film. I really enjoyed making it & it’s not the last, I really want to explore more with fashion films. I have also decided that I wanted to share with you the process I went through!
Be Blessed
xx love, Kassandra
Here are some swatches & sketches from my design process, many of my ideas changed and developed over time.
Alterations during fittings were defiantly fun, it was the moment when I saw my ideas from the paper come to life.
My favourite part! photo-shoot time! We had to prepare at-least two of our garments from our collection. All accessory, hair/make-up ideas had to be planned out. I finished my first two garments but sadly one of my models could not make it. We also got to work with a Vancouver fashion photographer: Peter Jensen, it was fun & I learned some good tips.
The hair & make-up was inspired by my russian culture & the essence of a “russian princess”
waterfall-braid + handmade silk flowers to portray a crown with soft romantic curls
Presentation day! Oh My! through our whole semester we worked up to this moment, it was a week away from the fashion show, and I still had to finalize my fabric color choices so I could continue painting my third dress. We designed hangtags, bags, portfolio & brought all accessories. My teachers brought in two people from Vancouver to watch our presentations. for our portfolio we had to design a complete collection of around twenty garments, with fabric swatches, illustrations, inspiration, technical flats, line sheets & business cards.
I am so thankful to my friend Bitty from BITS, for letting me borrow her beautiful russian nesting dolls
setting-up for my presentation
All three dresses from my line
The Fashion Show was truly another one of my favorite parts during this journey. I loved seeing my cloths walk down the runway & seeing some people taking pictures with their phones!! Even through this moment lasted shorter than five minutes, I will remember it forever.
I then invited my models over to do a fashion film! It was so much fun to have total creative control
Thank-you for reading! ♥♥
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