a walk in the park.

it has been the coldest the past two days out of my entire time here. actually smelled like winter wednesday morning. there was a thick frost over everything and it just smelled crisp, but for once i didn't really mind. i was starting to think that the colder it was in london the sunnier it was, and that was ok too. kp (my friend kelsey from uw) had made a date the day before to meet at school at 10:30 to discuss a brief that we are working on together for louis vuitton. yes. LOUIS VUITTON! basically they have come to central saint martins (and no other school) and have set a competition to design and implement their christmas windows for there 368 stores worldwide for 2007. yeah... how sweet is that!!!!??? anyway, we met, had a caffeinated beverage of choice, and set to work on the brief. so many ideas, so little time. we decided that instead of doing the whole "photoshop something that isn't that thought out and just try to make it look that way" was so not the way to go... and that we were going to fully hash out this concept and then do a magazine collage to present our initial ideas and theme.

too sunny for london to sit inside on a computer... so we both grabbed 35 mm's and went out to shoot... whatever. decided to head over to green park. this is a little of what we found... you just have to love february in london...





and then right across the street to buckingham palace... not that you can tell from the pictures (which are from my digital not the 35 mm ... those will come later ...)




following frosty flowers, we went to buy a few different fashion magazines for homework (i love that i just said fashion magazine and homework in the same sentence and it didn't have to do with procrastination!). instead went shopping. got a great coat for 15 quid. then it was down to business.

won't go into the hours spent up until 5am today rushing to prepare our presentation, but i will say we were primped and ready at 10:15 am in the conference room ready to rock (or pass out... nerves or lack of sleep or lack of food or lack of caffeine). we went third. we stumbled a bit. we were nervous. we were standing in front of 4 reps from louis vuitton as well as a film crew. FILM CREW. yeah, fun. anyway... it went really well. we still have a ton of work, and i won't go into our concept quite yet... but i'm just proud that we stood in front of louis vuitton reps, presented an idea, and didn't get laughed at or blank faces. score! we rock! more to come... we're going to win. i've decided. i'll keep you posted.