What inspires me to design

I, like many of the other students in class expressed, am in this for the marketing and merchandising aspect of apparel-but I do doodle way more than I should, so I figured I would give it a shot. I'm a huge fan of patterns, and i desperately miss my photoshop because i used to design prints for t-shirts and layouts for my old myspace page and things of the sort with it. I haven't really had time or money to get it on my new computers, and even if I did I doubt I would have time to dabble in it anymore, but I enjoyed it a lot.

If I did design, I feel like people would be my main inspiration. Not how they look, but their personalities. That along with music and outdoors. Clothes can definitley tell stories, just like songs. Sometimes when I can't fall asleep I think of a song and then design the outfit for the artist's video in my head. It usually works too, because I get so into detail that I eventually just start drifting into dreams. Patterns inspire me as well. I go to graphic websites a lot to look at pictures that people have taken or edited, and I am constantly changing the background on my computer, and sometimes this blog as well. In fact I probably will again when I finish this post.

So anyways there's something I just designed downstairs. The back of it would be black nylon/spandex material so as to keep the dress up, until the waist line, where it would return to the same fabric and design as the front to the bottom. My inspiration for this was the gay boy sitting beside me downstairs while I drew it who I just recently saw in a drag dress. I think an actual woman would look better in it, but he's very inspiring. I would pair this dress with strap up black heels and a metallic clutch. Or, I would dress it down with tights and ballet flats.