My Published Interview for "Catwalk Threads"!!!

I'm so excited and happy because I just read the interview that my wonderful friend Louise made me; she has a beautiful website named: Catwalk Creative which is an exclusively online vintage clothing boutique and dress agency.

Louise also has a store on e-bay where you can find great and beautiful vintage clothing and accessories: "Catwalk Creative on e-bay"

I love every minute of my interview, from the interesting questions to the way Louise arranged the whole page. I felt really honored to be asked for an interview and happy to have Louise as my interviewer.

Thank you so much, Louise for this wonderful work and for being one of a kind.

Here is the link to my interview published on Louise's blog:

http://catwalkthreads.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/an-inspirational-talent-fashion-designer-giovanna/#comment-116

Please leave your comment or feedback on the interview's page. I'd appreciate it :)

Hope you enjoy it!

Hugs!

Catwalk Threads

Candy Factory

"Candy Factory" is the name of my little children sportswear collection. I was very inspired by the colors of the candy, all vibrant colors. I wanted to recreate that into clothes and I came up with my little collection. I love designing for women, juniors, etc, but I also enjoy so much designing for children; Children wear is a wonderful market; I feel that when you design for children, you can let your imagination fly even farther than when you design for adults. I also think that I love designing for children because of my teaching background. I used to teach 3, 4, 5 year old kids. I remember them every time I want to design something for children. I imagine what kind of outfits I would design for each of them. I really love that period of my life. I have so many wonderful memories. When I want to get inspired, I also keep in mind my two beloved ones who are always an inspiration for me in every way; my little niece and nephew.
This picture is just a little piece of my children collection.


*Click on picture to enlarge it*

My Manga Treasury

I was organizing some papers and stuff at home and I found a sketchbook that I used for drawings. While I was checking it, I found some of my Manga drawings that I made some time ago. I love manga, especially for the beautiful faces and hair. Since I was a child I use to get very inspired by manga drawings to create my fashion sketches. It's funny because some of my teachers at the fashion school, noticed that influence. They said that the faces of my fashion illustrations looked a little bit like Manga faces. They wanted me to draw my fashion illustrations with more realistic faces instead of using the manga influence. That wasn't a problem for me, because I like to be able to draw in different ways so I followed their instructions. At the end of the course, they congratulated me for listening of what they said and being open to change. Now I can draw in different ways, if I want to draw with my Manga influence, I do it and if I want to make more realistic faces, I can do it as well. I'm happy to have listened my teachers; I think it's very important to listen in order to learn. I really learned a lot of fashion illustration techniques from them. I'm very thankful with all my teachers :)

I wanted to share with you some of my Manga drawings . I drew these ones with an "extra black" pencil # 555

"Amor mio"

"Coqueta"

"The girl with the flower"