The Creative Process...

"My creative process is exactly like this; research, overstimulate, eliminate, then create...repeat if necessary." 

The image below is a prime example of research and overstimulating myself with imagery for inspiration, garment details, silhouettes, colors, etc. I then start sketching up a storm to put all my visions to paper. Right now I am currently in my research/overstimulate stage. Unfortunately I wish I was further along...but hey...its a process  that takes its own time. It's like that saying "when you know, you just know." Well it's the same thing with the arts. When you see an image, building, fabric, or what have you...it speaks to you in such a way that your minds wheels start turning and it's like one gigantic puzzle. One piece leads to the next, and before you know it...you have this body of work that tells a story...

Being that this will be my first collection and my deadline is literally around the corner...I need to create a capsule collection that is small, yet enough pieces that can tell my story and my design esthetic. It's hard for a new brand to launch let alone develop in a economy where well known established brands are struggling. Boutiques and Majors pre budget their seasons a year in advance with brands they know sell, period.  Money is the key factor. Major department stores and boutiques want the clothes to fly off the shelf and have very small margins for new brands. In a society that is so celeb based, and carbon copy of others...people tend to shy away from the new, but rather stick with the popular and over-saturated. New comers like myself have to really showcase my talent in order to get a very small slice of the rather large retail pie.

It's a lot of pressure on my shoulders because I don't take well to rejection. I mean who does!? Rejection & Failure!?... ugh... I can't. I won't. It's something that has kept me from launching this line years ago, and every time it rears its ugly head, I say the exact words my father recently told me "If you don't believe in yourself...who will? You have to believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place." So here I am...believing in myself, while carefully putting the pieces of my puzzle together in hopes that it's one extraordinary vision that all want to have and see...