A Dose Of Me

I started my internship at humber college's boutique and so far it has been such a wonderful experience working along side the boutique's manager; a self motivated, single mother and entrepreneur Charlene McFarelane. She has been such a motivation and role model, she makes the boutique welcoming to all. The manager recently organized a workshop which I had the pleasure of attending and assisting. The workshop was held on Thursday July 11th 2019 for high school students from the Humber College Experience program and they got a glimpse into one of the Humber Fashion Art & Business program projects “Company Profiles” where the manager displayed and explained a completed Customer Profile on Nordstromcanada denim using learnings taught by the Trend Analysis professor Julie Savile. Humber College Experience Program High School Students Having Fun Dressing Up at The Boutique  At the boutique there is a lot of opportunity to explore the various fields with

Up cycling is not new to me; I have always been changing and redesigning my old clothing into new fresh fashionable look that I would suit my personality. Being here in Canada I learnt about thrift shopping from some of my friends at school; which is going to shop at a store that sells secondhand clothes and other household goods with prices being commonly bellow $20 and the money is used to raise funds for a charitable institution called a THRIFT STORE. The idea of shopping cheap for a cause (not like fast fashion tho) interested me so I jumped on YouTube to see what people were saying about thrift shopping and I discovered THRIFT FLIPPING which is basically what I did with my old clothing and that encouraged me try it out. I visited one of the recommended thrift stores “ Value Village”  1020 Islington Ave, Etobico, Ontario Canada   I  spent hours looking through clothing and got a few pieces. I came across this yellow dress and was in love with the colour of the fab

Lime green is my favorite colour and I didn't have any fashion pieces in lime green pieces because I was reluctant to wear this colour because I thought bright colours wouldn't compliment my complexion but boy was I wrong!. Last year I was the bravest version of myself and I went for the risk by creating a mini bodycon beach dress in a lime green fabric. Lime Green Mini Bodycon Dress The dress came out perfect and I loved it because it added to my complexion; making me glowww!! Recently I picked this dress up from my closet to wear to summer school and realized that it was now too short for me, I immediately had the idea to change this dress into a cute unique crop top (but not too crop).  First I cut off the straps and plaited 3 of them After I cut the body (from the waist down to the hem) of the dress into a square like shape Then I shaped the square into crop vest; cutting the necklines and arm holes Finally I thread my machine and se