On saturday, 27th of June, the class of 2006 from the Modefachschule Sigmaringen (School of Fashion Design Sigmaringen) had their Fashion Show.
We were a group of 37 designer, and boy we made a show!

Each of us had to present a minumum of 3 outfits, all of which we had designed, created and sown on our own.

That also makes a minumum of three models per designer.
In my case, that was me, my very good friend Sarah (who I still know from school) and my roomate Isa who has now almost completed her first year in fashion school.

We had 5 main topics which were again split down into 2 to 3 sub topics. That made it a complete of 10 topics, meaning 10 different styles of design. They ranged from sportswear to casual, colorful outfits to voluminous pieces of art to folk- and gypsy-style and would finally peak in beautiful evening dresses.

As soon as they have the photos online, I'll post .

For now, though, I'd like to present to you at least a bit of what our styles were like. That's why I scanned the program booklet.

Booklet: Fashion Show 2009
(sorry, German only - but hey, it's got pictures too! )

- Preface -

- Vibrant Sports -

- Protection -

- Britanniamania -

- Global Nomads -

- Urban Minimalists -

- Sartorial Elegance -

- New Bohemia -

- Artful Volume -

- Black Beauty -


On top of that, however, I can post one more thing, and that is the photos we took of my outfits.
Before the show, we went to the Hohenzoller Castle of Sigmaringen and took some nice shootings. I pimped some of them, so there you go :3.


Sarah, wearing a triple-layered, plaited skirt with corsage waistband and leather buckles over a turtleneck hopped top and a jersey coat with an elaborate ribbon bound in the back.

- Sarah, again

Isa, wearing a sheath dress with a leather-clad opening in the front and shiffon plaits at the hem.

- Isa, again (she's so pretty here ;____;!)

Isa once more, wearing a woolen coat in trapeze-shape with a tippet and flashy orange huuuuge buttons XD

Sarah and Isa

Me, Anja , wearing flared pants with a broad waistband, a green chiffon blouse and a short waist-jacket.

Me, again


And here are some group shots for fun

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VAMPIRE! XD

I hope that I can post the video to my part of the show in near future, too. Beacuse we stormed the runway to Placebo's "Every you, every me"!!!!111111onee!!! You should've heard the audience at that! They loved it XD.

500 (figurative ) miles I shall travel - in order to attend various job interviews that seem to spring up one after another in the past weeks.

I started to send out applications about 2 months ago, and yet not many of the enterprises I have written to were answering at all.
Now they seem to call one after another.

I had an interview yesterday just next to Munich; I will have another next Tuesday next to Heidelberg and yet another in two weeks in Cologne.

I had already had one, about a month a ago, but that was only on the phone. And I screwed it up completely.
As you can imagine, that didn't quite boost my self-consciousnes and now my headmaster showers me in "makes-you-feel-good" books (as a classmate once said ).

I don't think it was due to the book I read ATM (because that books needs serious discussing how you could interpret the Hermes Trismegistos so wrong, but in its very essence and core it does have a point. However, that shall be another entry's topic. Maybe). Anyway, it might not have been to the book I read but yesterday's interview was just peachy. I am standing (rather, sitting) here and I state boldly that I doubt anybody else could top that. HA! Don't even try, buggers!

So my dad and I took off at 8AM towards Munich, catching a good part of the Whitsun-traffic-jam (holidays ahead here, so everyone who owns a car takes it to the highways and then some idiot's always too dumb for driving - you know the rest of the story).
We arrived just in time and I was offered yummy peppermint tea and a nice interview-partner. The girl who inteviewed me was the designer of the collections, together with the enterprise's boss. I don't think she was very much older than I am.
I had brought along stuff we did at school and I think she was very impressed by it. The boss came by later, too (....hey Mr. Good-Looking, WTF! XD) and took a glimpse at my stuff, but all in all, it wasn't you typical interview. It was just a get-to-know-each-other and see if we "match".
If it's up to me - we match!!!!!11111!!one. XD

It would be only an internship for now, not earning me any money to speak of, but those guys are great! I loved their philosophy from the very start and I love their concepts .
And I would almost be in Munich, ohmigod, back to Civilisation after three years of living right in an Alpine holiday-area.

But before I boast about too much here, there will still be another two (possibly even three) more interviews and I might still have a decision to make. The other enterprises each offer good conditions too and I have perspectives for the future in at least three of them (they're almost all internships for now, but I will have the chance to become a regular employee after the internship-time).

And now, dear friends, now I'm going to have one hell of a drink (or two or three) and Mexican food to celebrate this !

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All right guys, this wanna-be Trekki's back from the newest Star Trek movie.
Directed by JJ Abrams.
Featuring "Heroes"'s mass murder psychopath.
Yeah.

Quick overview of Pros and Cons and I-can't-decides.

The bad stuff:
- Kirk: Overdrawn, terribly bad written character. You cannot tell to me that Starfleet as it was established in 5 TV series and 10 movies would ever reward a character like that, leave alone let him command one of their finest vessels. This young version of James T. Kirk was a mass-conglomeration of cliché-work and exaggerated rebellion that went beyond what the Star Trek universe can accept as their Captains.

- Kirk, again: Chris Whats-his-name was not the actor to be casted as young Kirk. He has a face that I, personally, could watch on cinema screens 10 hours+ and would still not be able to remember afterwards. The actor had none of William Shatners character and presence. Okay, this was about the young Kirk who would yet have to grow up and develop a certain "aura" if you will, but there was still so much lacking. JJ worked with so many brilliant, young, talented, yet widely unknown actors in his TV shows - why didn't he bring in one of them?

- JJ vs. Science. Communication before black holes. 80mph car races and certain stunts afterwards. JJ versus time traveling! ARGH!. There were so many mistkakes in this movie ... And the ones I listed here are the ones an average girl with a fashion design education could spot. Now let my brother who studies Space and Aircraft Science see this movie ...I don't wanna begin to imagine what list he'll bring on.

- Uniform. First: the colors. Science and medical is blue! All right? Not: "all guys on bridge are blue". And then red. Or black. Or blue again. Ugh! Zero points for whoever came up with that. Be it a bunch of Starfleet recruits or not, there's gotta be a color scheme to this, at least after they changed clothes when they were orderer to the Enterprise.
Second: The design. Dear people, please! those are Starfleet Official Uniforms. Not your academy homewear department. Thin raglan shirts with pipings as the sole decoration in microfiber sportswear style (in blue! XD)? Oh dear Goddess of all that's design...

- Romulans. With tribal tattoos. And this is all I have to say to that.

- Haha, funny -,-*. Mostly horrible attempts of comic relieve. Spock says "fascinating" when a chair turns 'round auromatically? Yes. Sure.

- Where did Canon go? - Blew up Vulcan. Killed Spock's mom. Oh, and blew up Romulus too. All this puts the existing canon into the trash can. But then again, there will be a sequel, so that matter's still open to discussion I guess. (what with JJ and his obsessions with time traveling lately ...)

The good stuff:
+ Spock: Fantastic casting for the young Spock. Zachary played brilliantly. Also very well written character. Very canon, very credible also in favor of his later actions and behavior.

+ Leonard Nimoy.

+ Core crew. Bones, Sulu, Chekov were really very much OK too. Scotty ... was a bordercase.

+ Vessel design: Veeeeery nice design, IMHO. They managed to melt the original 60s design with the new, 21st century design to a credible display of the Enterprise.

+ Tech. Technical and other Trek-specific terms and their use thereof was OK as far as I can tell. Good work on the translation [into German], too.

+ Vulcan... ...and her inhabitants were nicely done. The landscape, the people, the outfit designs; especially the school and other architecture shown in the movie.

The can't-decide-stuff:
-/+ Uhura. First, I thought she was too pretty for that role. Then she gradually grew in my favor and I don't exactly know what I'm supposed to think about her and Spock.

-/+ Cpt. Pine. Only character worthy to be called a Starfleet vessel captain in this movie. But then again, he probably was the only character with a mental age over 20. And then again that wasn't probably what it was all about, now was it.

Summa summarum? - It was a movie for the masses. Not for Trekkis. But we saw that coming, didn't we.

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Ho! there lovely people, long time no see!
(that is, no time long rant here, hasn't it?)

It seems I have resolved to blog on my LJ account for the time being, mainly because I can embed pictures there better.
So, if you like have a look: [link] (some entries are friends-locked, so ... be my friend? )

As you might imagine, a lot has happened since that last DA blog entry. However, I'm not going to annoy you with hunge essays about all that stuff, not to worry .

Therefore, the news in simple taglines:

• Endgame! - Last semester of fashion design school! Now creating a collection for graduation!
  
  
• In Love with a Book - Otherland by Tad Williams ruled my world from December to March. Four volumes of up-and-downs, of major, major fangirl-ness and thousands of pages with one of the finest stuff ever written that I still haven't fully digested.
  
  
• Resonance - The anime Soul Eater has been one of the finest releases for a long, long time in anime-world so far and I have enjoyed every episode 'till the end a few weeks ago. There is much, much room to grow for fiction and art and that leaves me very contented and inspired.
  
  
• "I'm tired of pretending..." - NCIS. Tony. Ziva. WTF. 'Nuff said.
  
  
• The Twilight Princess - Played the newest Zelda game on Wii. Fell in love. Over and over. With many things.
  
  
• The Englishman (in New York) - Sting has captured a huge part of my heart for I find he has a song for everything.
  
  
• Real Life... - ...has one hell of a nice graphic rendering but the plot sucks. Or, more likely, it seldom makes sense x_X.


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Sorry for my lack of replies to various pictures/journals/LJ-entries!

School has started again, and as fate wants, I'm internet-less in my flat now *sighs*. There was a problem with my new contract and I don't know when I'll be online 24/7 again >,<*.

Therefore, I need to go online at school, where I don't have much time for excessive commenting/posting >,<*.

I'll try to catch up with stuff on the weekends, so please be patient .

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