Nocturnal

Guess what? I have returned with another (surprise, surprise) music post. Lately I've been having the crappiest, most unorganized sleeping schedule I've ever had since forever ago. I'm not entirely sure why do I keep going to sleep at such late hours, nor do I give any sorts of concerns to my body. 

Funny story, A few months back I promised myself to sleep no longer than 10PM, but pretty much failed. For the past three days I've been sleeping at 1AM on school days, which leads to a conclusion that I've only got 3,5 hours of sleep. But other than that, I'm relieved exam week is finally over, although I'm still pretty stressed out about school. But on the bright side, I have somehow managed to gather a bunch of songs and I'd like to share it, ya know, to cease this seemingly incessant stress of mine, and hopefully yours too, for a little while. Enjoy.

A Day In Pictures : Kebun Raya Bogor

The dreadful week of final exam which seemed like forever is finally over and I found myself thinking that a weekend getaway slash refreshment was solely the only thing I craved immediately after having my brain fallen into the deep hole of never-ending studying. With that being said, today I decided to take a short trip to Bogor (again) by train with my friend Septi. We took heaps of pictures but I just don't feel like it's all that necessary to upload all of them, since I don't wish to bore you with my face (hah!). 

Photos by Septindah Rachmayanti

Bangkok Trip

This is a really really late post just because I wasn't planning to post about it but eh, might as well share a few pictures. So this is when I went to Bangkok for 4 days in January. Pictures above are when we were at this temple which I don't remember the name because we went to two different temples and I forget which one's which. Also, we went to (I think) two different palaces which I honestly didn't enjoy that much.. But then we went to Trick Art Museum which was probably the highlight of my entire trip. Bangkok Trick Art Museum is probably the BEST Trick Art Museum, like, ever. Even better than the one in Korea. Sadly, the pictures are in my brother's camera so I don't have them with me. Just, ugh. Amazing. Even in front of the toilet there's this projector from the ceiling that shoots down the floor with different settings. Like this photo below, when you step on the flower, they spread out. Who makes this stuff, seriously? It's like, magic. Hah.

Picture above is taken at Madame Tussauds  

Sketches & Stuff - updated!

This is the most recent sketch I did. I've witnessed a lot of magazines and websites and blogs and whatever along those lines associated with fashion with heaps of sportswear and I'm starting to get really into it. Not just any kinds of sportswear, but the more creatively developed / constructed sportswear which turns them into something a little bit (okay, maybe a lot) more interesting instead of the in-your-face "I'm going to the gym" or "I'm out for a jog" type of sportswear, know what I'm saying? So yeah, loads of designer brands nowadays create ranges of sportswear, and sports brand themselves have taken the art of sportswear to a whole new level. And so I've taken a lot of inspirations from a lot of sports brands and also Stella McCartney created a sports collection for Adidas which I'd taken many inspirations from. Also, not only the designs that matter, the selections of the fabrics are what makes sportswear so damn expensive though. They have to put much more consideration as opposed to making any other types of clothes. 

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A few years ago my brother bought this book with eye illusion pictures, basically pictures that mess with your mind, makes your head turn upside down in complete awe. At least that's how I felt about that book. One day I was looking through some inspirations to create another fashion sketch and this bright idea came across my mind and I suddenly recalled of that particular book my brother owned. I searched everywhere but I couldn't find it, so I browsed through the internet to find picture examples which you can see on the right side of the paper. I drew all three of them myself, then applying the patters on each outfits on different parts of the outfits. I knew I was going to make this mini collection black & white, but I figured they definitely needed a pop of color, and I thought orange would be the perfect choice, since I wanted these outfits to stand out, and they individually have unique patterns on their own, so yeah, orange enhances the monochromatic emptiness of black & white, I wanna say.

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I decided to take it to the next level with this one. This is a little complicated than my previous sketches, but just a little bit. Patience is required. So I wanted to make something that's a little different to what I usually have in my mind, and so the idea of sketching outfits inspired by various animal skeletons and a little bit of human too. And I also wanted human veins to take part on this mini collection to add a little bit of color. In terms of the skeleton-drawing, I even searched through the encyclopedia to see the actual pictures of human and animal skeletons so that I would be able to draw the exact same form of skeletons. As usual things don't always go according to plan, so the skeletons don't look exactly like the real ones. But I honestly don't mind cause I tried my best. And there's no really need an explaining to do, the picture above is pretty self-explanatory to what each part of skeletons corresponds to which pictures of skeletons that I printed out and put beside each "outfits". 

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This was actually a project I did for school. I was supposed to find four customers and let them demand whatever kind of outfits they'd like me to make and I'd get profits for it. This was my first piece and it belongs my friend Alya. I actually just finished my 2nd which I began making since I would say a little bit over a month ago when I'm supposed to finish all four by the end of November. Oh and look at the month, it's December! 
Side note; I really enjoyed making this one because I personally like the style of it and the fabric is uber friendly to be sewn, and yes the quality of fabrics can greatly affect my mood of sewing and also the final results. Believe me.

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This is my second piece that I was talking about. This is basically just a simple tenun dress for a friend of mine at my french course. And yes it's looking a little big on me because her size is bigger than me but still I had to wear this dress for the sake of taking a picture. Ha.

I got the fabric from her so I can't tell you where to get them. Also I didn't even make the pattern for the skirt. I literally just straight up cut the fabric on a rectangular shape (after measuring the waist) and sew it so that it forms into a dress and boom; you don't even know it's that simple. Aaaaand I turned out to really like this dress because of the color and also because it's big on me since I love wearing clothes that are more on the loose side? Baggy? However you wanna call it. Too bad I can't keep this dress for myself. Sigh.

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This last one is my final project of the semester. We were asked to design and make a night gown/dress. The design is entirely up to us, so I decided to make a simple black dress with a little twist to it ya know? I designed this dress a few months ago, I actually have a sketch of this on my "sketches" post a few months back. 
The see-through lace vertical line is inspired by Elie Saab. I never witnessed a dress with a cut like that in the front so I decided to make it myself. The stretched lace I used for the front and the back is the same, however I used a different kind of lace for the skirt with bigger motives. I'm satisfied with this dress because it turned out to be exactly like how I had imagined it.