Internship: Blessed Brides LLP

For my final year internship phrase, I decided to choose Blessed Brides LLP as my intern company. Because my dream career has always been a wedding gown designer, I had always wanted to experience how it would be like to work in the bridal industry, and my dream came true!

Firstly I would like to thank all my colleagues! Here's the crew!

(from top left) Kenji - Katherine - Susan - Cat - YeeHwa - ME! - Tilly - Hesper (bottom right)

Because of all our designers and colleagues' help that my internship phrase has been wonderful. Thank you! All of you! For all the help, advice, encouragement, laughter etc.
It's been a very meaningful 2.5 months for me here :)
I will miss all of you!

Great things to takeaway from the boutique. From improving sewing techniques, to being carefully taught and guided about beading and lace patchwork, to interacting with customers, and finally to deeply and truly understanding about great teamwork. There are a lot of things I have learnt throughout the whole of my intern, but most importantly I learnt about wonderful teamwork which every company needs.

Once again I would like to truly thank everybody. Thank you designers Hesper, Tilly, Kenji. Thank you Susan, our seamstress. Thank you Cat and Sally for being there as part-timers. Thank you our boss Katherine & Alex. Thank you ex-colleagues, Val, Lourra, Anabelle.

It's great to have known all of you!

Below are some of the work I have done during my internship period.

Last but not least! As a gift and to express my gratitude for the great experience, I hand-crocheted a Amigurumi bunny for the company as well!

I wish the best for the future of Blessed Brides and its designers! :D

Tailoring: Jacket

This jacket is done for our module Tailoring. We learnt how to cleanly finish the tailored jacket where a lot of accuracy and hand sewing is needed. Although the end product produced is still satisfactory for me, it wasn't the best I could have done because of the time constrain. However, it is still a good experience in learning how to sew a tailored jacket professionally.

Evening wear: Stormy Night

FRONT

BACK

The first evening wear design done with the garment really produced out! Requirements were for it to be a bustier dress with boning. It was a good experience doing some of the techniques used for evening wear, like contouring, bustier, beading. The few things I wasn't very satisfied with the end product is that the back is not fit enough, and the beadings I didn't have time to finish it till what I initially wanted it to be. But still, I did what I could with the datelines given so Overall I'm still satisified. As always, I believe that the learning process is more important.

Kidswear: Bay-walk

From left: Felicia, Jaycelyn, EnRu, Melissa

FRONT

BACK

ROPE KNOT SUSPENDERS

CROSS-STITCHED PINTUCKS

This is a group work done with the concept Bay-walk for a kidswear collection. Each of us created a garment, with mine the second from the left. Our concept is inspired from the nautical concept, but we portrayed the aspect of marine life from what is seen on the bays. Key elements and features include the rope knots used by sailors (both on the ships and at the bays) and ripple-like cross-stitched tucks.

My design consist of attached suspenders which is made from rope knots, fake collars, and cross-stitched tucks between the pleats of the pleated skirt. The main idea of my design is to have a simple silhouette yet putting in unique detailings.

IPOS uniform design: Within

Female - Muslim - Maternity - Muslim/Maternity - Male

FEMALE PRODUCTION

MUSLIM PRODUCTION

MATERNITY/MATERNITY-MUSLIM PRODUCTION

MALE PRODUCTION

This is a uniform competition for Intellectual Properties of Singapore (IPOS). We were required to design 5 sets of uniforms: female, muslim, maternity, maternity-muslim, male.

My design concept is named Within, and the key elements are the clean lines on the appearance of the uniforms, yet at the same time they are actually served as hidden pockets.

It was a challenging competition as it was the first time we had to design for males and maternity, and even muslims. During the whole process of this competition, I learnt a lot, including understanding of the things to consider when designing for maternity and muslim.

Singapore Jewelry Design Awards 2014: Growing Love

CONCEPT

DESIGN1: PAST

DESIGN2: PRESENT

DESIGN3: FUTURE

This competition had a theme of Past, Present and Future. It had an interesting theme so I decided to take part in it and since it is jewelry which I had not get in touch with before, I gave it a try.

My concept is named Growing Love, which portrayed the growth of love, whether it is family love, friendship, or boy-girl relationships. It starts out like a seed in the beginning, to blossoming with flow, and eventually becoming something that can contain meaning in the future. I made use of simple design details, but with significant design concept and meaning behind the simple outlook.

IFFTI Fashion Illustration competition 2014: Breaking Wild

This is a illustration fully rendered on PS.

The concept is named Breaking Wild, promoting bravery and freedom in achieving dreams and goals in life.

Although it was not selected for finalist, I am still very satisfied with this illustration because of its strong concept and mindset I placed in it. This concept first came to me when doing a school assignment regarding career wear. I used 2 elements which I am not fond of (career wear and animal prints), and combined them with a strong concept which motivated me into doing my best in it. Thus when I received this competition, I strengthened the concept from before and applied it in my illustration.