Spring Fashion Show Update - Venue change

Not too chuffed at the moment.

Everything was going so well! But The Deaf Institute made a massive error and gave away our date for the fashion show!! I am pretty peeved!!!

I know it's not my fault but I don't want people to lose faith in us... Fingers crossed... At least The Deaf Institute are offering to pay us back for all our leaflets and advertising so far, it's some tiny consolation. I have a meeting tomorrow with Sound Control who are a pretty cool venue close by so that should go well.

I did create a nice website for the show, and managed to get some businesses involved as well as selling tickets and confirming all the models and handing out thousands of leaflets.

Click here to see The Spring Fashion Show Website

If isn't all confirmed tomorrow, it will have to be postponed until about April as Lindsay and I are involved in Fashion Fusion Expo in London where we'll be selling most of our collections.

This should be a great show, it's a huge 2 day event :) Just wondering how to get all my stuff down to London!

Click here to see Fashion Fashion Expo

Meanwhile, I went to New York last week and it was very nice, should get my photos developed quite soon.

Corporate Marketing Video for Peradon - Not Fashion

This is is a corporate marketing video I made for the snooker cue company Peradon. This is what I get paid to do in my actual job

Spring Fashion Show - New Leaflet

Wow what a response we've had for this show, it's amazing! Anyway, somehow the promotion still hasn't come through.. something had to go wrong! So I've created a first draft leaflet here

Comments appreciated

Spring Show Update

So far the planning is going swimmingly, everyday I am replying to 10s of designers, MUAs, photographers and models who are applying. We have confirmed many models and designers already. It's a really got really good vibes. There's still more to go and do but so far so good.

Now we just need to get our promotion heads on.. I'm pretty excited for the turnout of this show.

A new show! - Spring Fashion show Manchester - Feb 18th

We got a bit impatient, and since the last show was so successful we decided to hold another one in a different town, so instead of waiting until August 2010, we will be holding a show on February 18th in Manchester city centre.

This show is called The Spring Show... not very imaginative but it goes with the season theme we seem to have accumulated. We have another organiser on board, a designer from our last show. We have been planning for 1 week and already have many models, designers, muas (make up artists)and photographers lined up, and a venue!

The venue is the Deaf Institute, right near Oxford Road in Manc.

At the moment I am waiting for a designer to give me promotion materials, then I can really start to spread the word.... I also need to make a lot of clothes.. I have been collecting some beautiful material though, I'm quite excited about getting starting on the sewing.

the group for the show is here in case you're interested:

Click here to see The Spring Fashion Show

End of Summer Fashion Show - The Video

End of Summer Fashion Show - Leeds - 2009 from victoria rossiter on Vimeo.

2009 launched the beginning of this annual event: The End of Summer Fashion Show

Our next show is:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=193896076705

A bit of the story:

Drawing from inspirational British artists - both in fashion as well as music made the event a major success.

Overreaching the target for charity, the show inspired the minds of designers, creators, presenters, local business people and gorgeous divas to get involved in a cause greater than themselves.

To think beyond their daily lives and let the colours and fabrics from distant lands transport them elsewhere, where anything is possible.

The show featured the extremely loved and talented Kate Churischka , a violinist. A rivetting performance by this talented individual heated up the catwalk and prepared the audience for the aftershow and dancefloor.

End of Summer Fashion Show website

We have just confirmed that we will be organising another fashion show in 2010 making it an annual event, most likely still in Leeds, so I figured if I start fixing the website for my fashion show now, by next year it might be a very useful tool when the time comes.

So I've bought a real domain and hosting this time, incorporated a contact form and a flash gallery of this years sucvcess will be up there too

Click here to see The End of Summer Fashion Show



There's a screen capture for your viewing.

it's not all finished yet, but you get the idea:)

Managed to get the video and all the photos online now, and a contact form.

New work

For my new job, I've mainly been editing video, but I've been making more of these Video Ads too, check one out on this page -

Click here to see my video ad on the furniture shop online


I have made about 3 more but the companies haven't put them online yet...

Change over

Basically, I was being bullied by a classmate (S.L.) for a while, we lived together as well (things hadn't always this way between us) and life became really awful for me living in Leeds... I was also slightly unsatisfied with my course. I know it's everything I want to do, but something wasn't quite right. I wasn't motivated enough I think and I just wanted to travel, my heart hadn't been in it this last year.

I was going to defer and move to Montreal for a year and think things over some more. I didn't want to go back to school and study yet and even if I moved out of the house that guy would still be in lessons with me everyday and I couldn't bear even looking at his face...

I applied for jobs and housing and had almost paid for all my visa and such, sorting it out with college too when I got a job offer as a designer/video editor for a good sum of money. It took me a week to decide, as I still wanted to just leave the country, but in the end I realised I shouldn't waste this opportunity.

I've been working now for 5 weeks and it's ace. I've learnt so much, particularly with After Effects and Premiere Pro. I know them both well now. It's been good working with real clients for deadlines that actually matter and having professionals like my work.

With this new found wealth I finally bought an overlocker and am making my 2nd collection of clothes for shows. I was involved in a few since the one I organised. I bought tickets to go and see New York and some go to back to Amsterdam with some friends. Also learning to drive. Things are still changing a lot but it's looking up from 2 months ago for sure!

I'll find some examples of my recent work soon enough.

Good things can happen out of bad things :)

End of Summer Fashion Show

The show was a marvelous success. In the end we had 12 designers as follows.

Vicky Martin, Kookai, Heidi May, Arrogant Cat, Me, Linzi Hofman, Becky Collina, Verity Smith, Anadlus, Kelly Ewing, Orlando.

It went really smoothly, especially considering the whole thing was run by 2 people with little funds. Some guy from Hollyoaks came and we had the Yorkshire Evening Post there.

I just have to get round to editing the video footage now!

Here are some photos.











All these photos are by Deepak Boddu

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