Rags and Mags

Today I asked my campers if they’d like to create a real collection and they were all for it! Woo! I’ve got a work team now!
Sandee can totally be stuck in Ottawa filming Project Runway, but I’ll make my mark at L’Oreal Fashion Week again.

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While teaching the design camp kids to sew buttonholes today, I came up with a BRILLIANT idea! They could help produce my samples! I’ve taught them well. They could do it! Now I know why I took this job at camp. Now I’ve got to get sketching. Hey…maybe I can teach them to make patterns […]

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Holy crap! I’ve been so focused on my “real job” and Project Runway that I totally, completely forgot that I should have Spring/Summer 09 samples ready to show buyers by the end of the month! I learned last season that I need sales appointments, but there’s no way I can get it all done. What […]

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Oh, I’m so, so sad! Project Runway doesn’t want me. But Sandee said she got a second callback. She’s a good designer, but why didn’t they choose me? My designs are so progressive. They’d be perfect for TV.

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This was the most colourful weekend I’ve ever experienced! Saturday’s Caribana parade was full of the BEST COSTUMES EVER! And the makeup…WOW! Amazing! Toronto felt so lively and cheerful. I loved it! Roti all weekend long! Mmmmm… Perhaps I can fit Caribana into my next collection.

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Last night, PlastikWrap had the coolest gallery launch for Zoetica Ebb’s work. I can’t believe I met the girl who started Coilhouse and writes the Suicide Girls fashion column! Her art was a supercool mix of hot chicks and cool contraptions.
 
To make things even cooler, PlastikWrap and Zoetica collaborated on the neatest shirt ever! It’s black with an iridescent heat […]

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The Project Runway Canada producers haven’t called back, even though I’ve called every day to ask when I’d have my second audition.
When I told Sandee that I thought I’d get a callback, she just kind of said, “Good for you” and then went to work with her kids. I thought she’d be happy for me, […]

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Uh oh again. Sandee didn’t talk to me at all yesterday after the meeting and then today she told me that I take her and Elmo for granted and only appreciate them when they get me out of problems.
Do I really act like that? I thought I was a good friend. I wasn’t the one […]

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Uh oh. The campers took the style wars too far and started sabotaging each other’s work. My boss caught me encouraging the competition and brought Sandee and me into the office for questioning.
Sandee totally saved my ass and said that it was a deconstruction exercise inspired by Project Runway.

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Sandee’s kids and my kids are starting full-on fashion wars at the Design Exchange camp! I caught them in a runway competition. It was so cute (and a bit subversive)! My team rocked it best, of course! Maybe I should pitch a kids modelling competition to the producers of Project Runway if I get a […]

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