Hump Day

Well hello there my little mice (Zanrda's nicknames for her interns). Today has been very long and my sinus issues have been rather troublesome, but besides the constantly runny nose I managed to get a lot done.

My morning consisted of me in the packed tube making my way to Oxford Circus where I had to pick up boxes of pins that were urgent to Zandra and the rest of the team for the day. They are working on two bridal gowns as well as dresses for various women in the wedding parties. My main project this afternoon was to recreate a chart that Zandra constructed, which is made up of tiny sketches of her Fall 2010 line. She wanted me to duplicate it in order for her to take a copy back to the US when she returns on Monday.

Another task I was fortunate to complete today was sorting through tons of photo albums in search of pictures of Zandra and her work from the 1960's. She is appearing on a tele special tomorrow that is all about the swinging '60's, so I spent the afternoon going through crazy photos of dinner parties and fashion shows. The pictures were amazing and getting to see how beautiful Zandra was and how much fun it looked like she was having made me truly happy. Tomorrow I'm going to try to grab a few snapshots to post on here since I think they are so absolutely wonderful.

Since Zandra has so many brilliant pieces of art in her flat, I thought I would share another one of her favorite artists with you tonight. His name is Duggie Fields and he calls his work a "hard-edge post-Pop figuration". I love Pop art so you can imagine I was enthralled to see Zandra's flat daintily littered with his work. The first picture I posted is of his Marilyn Monroe rendition that is hanging in Zandra's sitting room. All of his stuff is very provocative yet feminine, and most of the pieces display dressed up women with their breasts exposed and heads cut off. None of it is disturbing, and I actually quite enjoy his work, and I hope you do as well. Until later, oxxooxo

Check out Duggie Fields' website here