Brooke Catherine will be showing a few of her white peices for the La Jolla Summer White Party XII. The event will be taking place on July 19 with a fashion show sponsered by The Closet Party, www.theclosetparty.com, and Stylexplorers, www.stylexplorers.com
This should be an exciting event, for it is held every year to gather money for charity. A white party? That is so much fun. Who doesn't look good in white?
July 18-21, 2008 is Gay Pride in San Diego. Fashion Careers College and Bad Madge Productions will have a booth set up, where they will be showcasing some local fashion designers. Brooke Catherine of Bcat Threads was invited to show some of her samples. There will be models strutting their stuff in a fashion show along with some informal modeling. For more information about Gay Pride and the Gay Pride event taking place over the weekend, please visit: www.sandiegopride.com
A Stylexplorers.com and The Closet Party Production showcasing peices from Brooke Catherine of BcatThreads.com
Tuesday, July 8th
at Minus 1 Lounge
8:30pm: Stylish Social Hosted by Peroni Beer
9:30pm: Fashion Show Style by The Closet Party
10pm-2am: Enjoy Revolutionary Style & Music by Stylexplorers.com
Gather in Style...Jump Into Culture...International Night @ The Keating!
Guest List only. Please RSVP to events@thekeating.com
I have finished my costume for "The Art of Fashion" event that will be held at the Timkem Museum on August 9th. I am excited with the way that it turned out because I think I really captured what the painting shows. I was assigned the lady in brown, which you will be able to tell by looking at the painting and comparing it to my design.
I will post more details about the event when I get more information. Thanks for checking it out!!
I found out last Friday that I made it to the final round for the Passport to Style contest, put on by Fashion Group International. I was so excited to hear the great news, but know that there is a lot of work to come ahead. For the final round, we will showcase one of our designs in the window of a boutique that we are assigned. I believe it will be displayed the entire week of San Diego Fashion Week, which is September 5-13. We will also be showing a collection of 3-4 looks on the runway during the Fashion Week's Fashion Show. This is so exciting to think about. I need to give this my all. The exposure will be so beneficial.
We were also required to set up an account with Stylexplorers.com, for those of you who aren't familiar, you should check it out. It is a virtual lifestyle magazine that launched this last march. It is a unique idea that keeps everyone linked together and discovering interesting things around the globe. It is growing immensley, which is a great reason to hop on board now.
I will keep you posted with the latest events happening for Passport to Style.
As of June 25, Lily Grace Boutique is now carrying the Brooke Catherine line from Bcat Threads. For those of you who live in the San Diego area, you need to check out this boutique.
It is located at: 949 Turqoise St., San Diego, Ca 92109 for those of you wondering, it is located in north Pacific Beach.
The owner opened this boutique in 2003 to give people the neighborhood feel for comfortable shopping. She carries unique items that you won't find in any other boutique. She has a love for art and fashion, which you will get the feeling of once you walk into her store. So, stop by and check it out, and don't forget to ask for Bcat Threads!
Fashion Group International and the San Diego Focus group has made it possible to expose new and aspiring fashion designers to take part in their San Diego fashion week this year. This was a great opportunity for me (Brooke), so I participated and was so glad that I did. Our first step was to complete a mood board of our inspiration for the designs, sketch our ideas, and draw our flat illustrations to show the details of the peices. We were to create 2-3 peices, with one look. Immediately, my head was flooded with ideas. Since I am always inspired by color, I chose to go with the ideas of color I had in my head. I've liked the way that ivory and navy go together, so these were the colors I chose. From there I started to think about the things that I knew were that color. I immediately though of china. Yes, china, as in plates and bowls. My aunt collects china, which may be where I got the idea. Then, I started picturing highly fashionable women in the 30's and 40's. Soon, I started looking for pictures and ideas and came up with my design. I sent in my mood board, sketches, and flats to the board of judges and was passed on to the second level.
The second level was to actually create the peices and bring them to a panel of three judges, where we would get 5 minutes to present our boards and our peices. I anxiously got ready, put my designs on a dress form and soon it was my turn to explain what the judges had in front of them. I was so excited about my presentation that, miraculously, it went smoothly and the judges seemed to like what they saw. Now I will await the official email to see if I make it the final round, which put my designs on display during SD Fashion week.
Below is a picture of Judy Thacker and I putting my designs on the dress form before I presented to the judges.
On June 15, Bcat Threads had a booth at the San Diego County Fair, thanks to Karl Jaedtke from the Pacific Beach Town Council. Brooke Catherine and Jennafer Grace represented the team and showed San Diegans a taste of what our on-line boutique had to offer women and girls alike. It was a great success and an exciting day all around. James Norton, a San Diego photographer, also joined in the festivities with a team of people, to have a photo shoot with models ( Kat Dente and Jessica Dungans) wearing the Brooke Catherine line of clothes. I've seen the results and the pictures are going to be amazing. We haven't gotten them from the photographer yet, but the pictures will be posted soon.
We also had models helping with promoting the booth as they walked around the fair wearing our designs. Jennifer Sandrock and her roommate, Lubi, walked around handing out flyers and asking people if they were interested in signing up for our newsletter. To our suprise and not much later after they started, the Fair security put a stop to it. Apparently we were suppose to go through the fair marketing team. After trying to kick the girls out, I had to persuade the security that we really didn't know the steps that were suppose to be taken and promised that they would no longer promote our booth.
While Dana Nevins, my fiance and helper for the booth, manned the tables, Jennafer and I had a little photo shoot of our own. We used beach cruisers from Hot Rod Surf Shop, located in PB, as props for our pics. What you can't see by looking at the picture is that this beach cruiser had a purple velvet covered banana seat. Do you remember banana seats? They were popular when I was a child and now someone has brought them back and they look great.
We have a student afrom Fashion Careers College, who is in fashion design, interning with us. She started yesterday and was of tremendous help. She has the ambition and drive to make it in the fashion world. Although, most students are eager to get their hands wet, and should be. It is great to share such an exciting interest with someone. And, I really like the idea of, you help me, and I will help you. That really is the key to making it in the world. Well, maybe not always, but it is helping me. This stage of Bcat Threads is so exciting for me. I love getting involved and it makes me so happy that this student wants to ride along with me.
We just made the switch last night. You can now order anything on BcatThreads.com with a credit card or with Paypal. In the past, we only allowed Paypal, but found that some people don't already have accounts and didn't want to sign up. This will make things easier for everyone to shop. And, our blogging system has changed, too. You can now leave comments or questions for all to see and for us to answer for you. Happy Shopping!
