Dr Martens turns 50

The legendary British footwear label Dr Martens celebrates it's 50th year with an unmissable fashion and music project. on the 1st of April they launched a small collection of limited classic boots and shoes, available in black and red. As well as launch the limited edtion boots they have gathered different acts to help celebrate the aniversiary. Noisettes, The Duke Spiritand the Black Rebel Motocycle Club have have styled the retro boots with a 2010 twist.

Fashion Week in APRIL!!!

Can't wait till September to get your next fashion fix, well your in luck! After reading my monthly issue of ASOS Magazine, I've discovered that fashion week isn't as far away as we thought. The Alternative Fashion Week is runing between 19-23 April in London's Spitalfields Market. Over 70 new designer gradates will feature in the show, previous graduates to showcase include Garth Pugh and Jasper Garvida. You can catch the sublime to sensational at 1:15pm daily. As well as the show, inspriation can be found in the fashion market where you can get one-off pieces or take in the street style, which last year caught the eye of Vogue.com.
but wait you haven't heard the best news yet!.....IT'S FREE!!!

Fashion as a Forum

Along side producing a collection I have to write a Fashion based essay. For assement we we're given a genral question which we then had to inturpretate. To make things easier we were advesied to write about an area of fashion we found interesting. After struggling to find a subject I could write about I decided to base my essay on High Street VS Internet. I thought it would be easy, but when I first tried to gather information from the library, I relised that the Internet is still a new technology, and therist still haven't writen about it yet. It was also hard to find information online as well. Struggling to gather the my research made me change my essay slighly. In the end I wrote about the future of shoping, this included how we currenlty shop and how upcoming technology could change the way we shop in the future.

When I was at school I wrote a lot of long essays and I was very confident when it came to gathering information and managing my time to write them. Unfortunately that was years ago and I hadn't written an essay since my GCSE's. The thought of sitting down and gathering research wasn't appealing and I didn't find the set lessons helpful at all. I thought most of them were irrelevant. Due to these factors I didn't manage my time well and put the essay off till the last minute; which I now regret. It's not that I didn't pass the essay, but I know I could have done much better then I did. This has now moitvated me to read more thorey based books and I'm determinded to be better prepared when it comes to writing the Disatation next year.

The link below will show the essay I produced.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVDZ6sGu0H3CZGdoMjc1cTZfMTdmMjdkdmdkZg&hl=en_GB