Featured Indie Designer – ViviFromage

Not going anywhere cool this holiday season? Fear not, my marooned friends. This week our Indie Designer Feature takes us to France with an interview with ViviFromage!

Your Name: Virginie Janin
Age: 22
Hometown: Bonneville, FRANCE
Current Location: Annecy, FRANCE

How did your interest in fashion begin? I’ve always been interested in fashion (even when I was a kid, meaning my Barbie doll was of course a total fashionista! hehe) but I was pretty frustrated until I discovered DIY designers, about 3 or 4 years ago. I mean, unless you’re rich enough to buy haute couture clothes, you have to buy your clothes at the mall ; these clothes can be cute but they can’t be regarded as unique clothes. The first DIY item I saw was an incredibly awesome Tsunami Bomb corset, made by Suzie aka Dropdeaddiy. I immediately thought : “Wow, this is really interesting, I wish I was able to make this kind of stuff!” Read more

October 2007 WhatTheCraft Forum Contest – The Winner!

Congratulations to purple5262! Her CATS! costume won the WhatTheCraft.com Costume Contest!
A very close second place went to Lectersfavabean’s 18th Century Lady costume!

For more information about WhatTheCraft.com Contests, please visit the forums!

Featured Indie Designer – The Vintage Doctor

Nintendo, Star Wars, Alice in Wonderland… TheVintageDoctor brings you such d.i.y. delights and just so happens to be our newest Featured Indie Designer!

Your Name: Sarah Pirog
Age: 26
Hometown: Alden, NY (a little farm-country town outside of Buffalo)
Current Location: Worcester, MA

How did your interest in fashion begin? Necessity is the mother of invention! I am a filmmaker by trade, and mostly create fantasy and period-based shorts & music videos. All my of my films require custom-fitted pieces for the actors, so it was convenient for me to simply make my own costumes from scratch.
What motivated you to start selling your designs and what were your expectations when you started? It was kind of a fluke, actually. After my films were completed, I had all the costumes left over just laying around. Since I figured that somebody else could get more use out of them than my closet, they were sold on Ebay. Read more

Featured Indie Designer – Supayana

Hold on to your butts, everyone! Our second Indie Designer Spotlight is on Yana of Supayana!

Name: Yana Gorbulsky
Age: 24
Hometown: I was born in Moscow, but grew up in NY
Current Location: Montreal, Canada

How did your interest in fashion begin? I started sewing things for dolls when I was a little girl.
What motivated you to start selling your designs, and what were your expectations when you started? I started selling my clothing when I was in college, studying Speech Pathology. I needed money to pay for textbooks, and I was always getting compliments on my clothing, so I decided to make some money off of it. I didn’t really have any expectations at first, I thought I was going to become a Speech Pathologist, but towardsthe end of college, I was making enough to support myself so I decided to stick with fashion instead.
Do you have any formal training in fashion, art or design? No, but it’s probably genetic. My grandfather was a painter in Russia. My mother painted and designed scarves in Russia. My sister paints and is a scenic artist (she designs sets for shows like 30 Rock). Read more

Halloween Contest – Vote for your favorite!

We got some rad costume entries this year, folks. Check ‘em out!

Voting has started and will continue until November 15th, so stop by the WhatTheCraft.com forums and cast your vote!!

Post-Halloween

I didn’t wind up getting enough pumpkins to try the scarring technique, but I did carve the two lone pumpkins I got.
This was my jack-o-lantern this year:

 

And don’t forget!  Today is the last day to enter your costume in the WhatTheCraft.com Handmade Halloween Contest!  Go enter!!

And if you don’t enter (boo to you!), don’t forget to come back and vote between November 3rd and 15th!