Fancy a bite...of my dress?

One of my favourite things about fashion is the new, the outstanding and completely initiative. So I thought I would share with you one of my favourites:

Micro nutritional couture

I stumbled upon the work of Emily Crane while browsing the pages of WGSN, she works on the brief of that in 2025 the government bans fast fashion and it has to evolve to give back to the world. She been working on the idea of growing clothes from edible materials.

Emily experiments with freezing bubbles of food stuff to create hybrid materials creating bio-lace structures.

The future looks bright for this taste bud tingling fashion as Emily is currently working with Heston Blumenthal fusing science, food and fashion together.

For more info check out Emily's site: http://emilycrane.co.uk/

A fashion interns life for me...how will I pay the rent?

The fashion is notorious or being highly competitive  and difficult to get into, never have I felt this was more true than when I started looking for a job for my placement year out of university, I was no longer simply competing against the girls on my course but from every fashion course in the UK.. I sent out hundreds of email and letter to fashion companies inquiring about jobs, I would say for every twenty I sent I would get one reply and often it was rejection. However all was not in vein I got a number of interviews for the likes of McQueen, Stella McCartney and Alice Temperley.

Every interview was nerve racking as I sat in reception waiting to be called, surrounded by girls who looked like they just step out of the pages of Vogue, dolled up not a hair out of place and not a kind word was ever uttered to me. I couldn’t have felt more out of place. I don’t look anything like the girls in fashion magazines and am a pocket sized 5’3 size 12 who well… wears anything I fancy whether its on trend or not. The interviews themselves where well unimpressive often well short and sweet.

My break came with the Italian luxury fashion power house that is Moschino. I am currently the newest press office intern of the London branch. My role is to send out samples of the collections to magazines, stylists, photo shoots and the odd VIP and then book everything back into the showroom. An amazing opportunity, completely unpaid but well that’s just how the fashion industry rolls, its all had the inclination towards a little slave labour. But I am willing to put up with a lot to gain the experience and connection for me to one day to get a real job in the industry that doesn’t pay me simply in biscuits.

Press Office AW 2011 mainline collection

Press office showroom

My fav show stopping dress

The battle of the IT bags

This week Mulberry's very latest bag hit the shelves the Carter, and is soon to the very latest IT bag nestled neatly on the shoulder of its celebritiy clientele. the Carter is boxy, rectanglar bag with chain handles that is available is a number of sizes to suit whatever purpose from simply carrying your mobile to a bag pretty much capable of fitting the kitchen sink, this bag has be dubbed the "double handbag bag", it would give mary Poppins bag a run for its money.

Just as the Carter goes up for sale, The Channel camp is raving about their new bag the Boy Channel. This fuss free piece of arm candy is bang on the androgynous trend. With its mannish quailty and simple classic colours...The battle of the IT bags begins, which will you chose?

The new stars of the plus size market

Once upon a time, I did some work experience within Arcadia, I worked a press intern for Evans. Plus size fashion has always seemed to stump the industry, suddenly they stop following trends and silhouttes, style goes out the window and colour is forgotten. This was completely apparently as I tired my very best to send out Evans clothing to magazines and photo shoots and all I seemed to be working with was black, shapeless garments that lacked life and style, the Beth Ditto range really was the only relief for the Evans collections. I was so disspointed by the array of clothes for plus size women  even went about compiling a buying proposal for a proposed River Isalnd plus size collection for my uni coursework.

However great news for all those that sport a few curves Clements Riberio is about to kick Evans into shape. The design duo Suzanne Clements and Inacio Ribeiro will be designing a range for the plus size retailer next year. if you can't wait till next year for inspiring plus size clothing Evans is about to launch "Whats your shape?" with clothes being grouped in differnet body types...an old idea but it might refresh Evans range???

...And in the beginning

Hi I'm Material Miss and welecome to my fashion blog, I really do live and breath everything fashion. I work as an intern in the industry and I am sure you will hear lots about my adventures in the world of work as well as the lastest fashion news and trends. I love everything from Primark to high end fashion shows from mainstream to the competely werid and unkown. So I hope you enjoy your wander through my blog! x