Tuesday, August 04, 2009
SOOO the press photos are out for Miss Singapore Universe's (Rachel Kum) National Costume 2009, which is to be a giaant orchid. I think it looks fantastic! qing did one HELL of a job finishing that in 5 days, we thought we didn't have to make the gown see, so all of us were giggling about which poor soul/(s) had to sew on the sequins as we kept throwing them on, only to have it come back to us, well, one of us anyway, qing, who won the competition. i don't have any better photo cause this is all i could get from the net, my newspaper on that particular day seems to have a problem, i think 14pages of my Life! section never got printed 0_0 and i don't think i can get qing to bluetooth me the photos cause shes using an iphone i think.
So anyhoots, qing dyed the fabric herself (IT TURNED OUT SOOOO NICELY) and basically the whole thing was just a flower (haha.) of her hard work. i don't think enough credit has been given to how hard it must have been to be juggling school and doing a gown (which no one told any of us we had to do) must have been. srsly had my dress been picked, i would have just complained all the way and made faces and die by the end of it, but qing was a real warrior about it zomg. i just can't get over the fact she only had $500 to make it, the chiffon that she originally wanted to use costs $75, which is obviously out of the question. aiyah im just damn in awe.
i heard from joe that when they'd just finished the gown they had less than a meter of thread lol. luckyness, i wasn't able to see ms rachel kum walking around the dress in RL cause i was in class but from the pictures, she looks stunning in it. the petals around her head just look very very dramatic and i dont know how many times i've said this but the dyeing was in-cre-di-fucking-ble.
i'll just stop here, im beginning to rave and repeat myself.
SO anyway, maybe ill post the article about sketches of our dress another day, abit tired now.
jade;d @ 8:51 PM
SOOO the press photos are out for Miss Singapore Universe's (Rachel Kum) National Costume 2009, which is to be a giaant orchid. I think it looks fantastic! qing did one HELL of a job finishing that in 5 days, we thought we didn't have to make the gown see, so all of us were giggling about which poor soul/(s) had to sew on the sequins as we kept throwing them on, only to have it come back to us, well, one of us anyway, qing, who won the competition. i don't have any better photo cause this is all i could get from the net, my newspaper on that particular day seems to have a problem, i think 14pages of my Life! section never got printed 0_0 and i don't think i can get qing to bluetooth me the photos cause shes using an iphone i think.