Yana Dobreva blog
Maybe falling down a rabbit hole is an adventure everyone should go through in order to learn how to deal with reality. After all, Alice always relied on her dreams to teach her how to face important decisions in her life. Besides, she eventually became a captain …
Creating illustrations for the tennis collection started as something I thought I had to just get done, but in fact, the whole process evolved into something extremely inspiring, as my work on this part of the project reflects my concept perfectly.
When creating the range plans for the whole tennis collection I had to keep two rules in mind – it has to incorporate the three main court colors, and it has to reflect the range plans for the womenswear collection. Starting from these key points, I slowly developed a range plan in accordance with the four tournaments’ rules and based on playing with textures and color proportions to achieve different intensity and slightly different palette ratio. Continue reading Proportions
As I slightly altered small details of my concept in the course of the project, changing the initial mood board is a natural process.
Somehow in the industry, we always end up designing for tall slim people, who would just walk around in our garments, looking fabulous. As for this project, authenticity is most important, I am not aiming to find a person, who would look good in my clothes, but rather one, who I am working with closely and making the outfit suited for their needs. Continue reading J Wears It
After a long Friday morning workshop on product testing, I finally feel inspired to give my garments a chance to live a real life, full of adventures. To do that, I have to prepare them really carefully, as if raising a child.
After a few chocolate bars, a whole chocolate donkey cake, and my mate’s chocolate dessert, fueled by sugar, I was finally ready to start with my designs for the other three major tournaments – Wimbledon, Australian Open, and French Open.
Finally facing the decision to design for the four major tournaments, I got on some work around creating a collection, in which each piece would be unique. The garment I am actually making is for the US Open and is inspired by the clean and sleek style of the event. Continue reading American Oxygen
I was long ago sure that I want to use my prints for the whole tennis collection, but using already existing prints sounds like a bad idea, given the concept that everything has to be really personal. The main purpose is to create a print …
