Great Fashion Book Store in LA

I'm not sure if most people know about this amazing book store I ran into at the LA Market Center??!! Ever since I walked in there with my friend Kadi when we went to the fashion symposium in April, we have been planning on taking another trip to go visit again <3 It was so great!! so many books in there are textbooks they use in any fashion design class, I own some of them! lol they have a lot of hard cover Vogue Magazines, Illustration drawing books, sewing technique books, and many more amazing must haves!!

I wish I could of taken pictures of the store, but they have a strict policy about phones in there!! too many problems from the past and they've needed to take serious precautions; but at least I got this business card so yay! If your ever in the LA fabric district on 9th street go check it out! Here's the link to the website if you can't read it off the picture! www.thefashionbookstore.com

Finally last day of 2013 Spring Semester at AVC

Last Day of class and we all had the traditional potluck we always have at the end of every semester. Not to many people came, but all I cared about seeing were the people I would talk too. Kadi, Fabi, and surprisingly my friend Ashley was there!! yay! I said bye to my professor and mentor Melissa Ramiro! She is definitely the greatest professor I have ever had. I took a CT class every semester with her, she made school worth coming too. She said "you can finally add me on Facebook crystal" lol XD hilarious!! Me and Kadi gave her a card that expressed how much of an impact she made in our lives.    

 With me in the Picture is Kadi instagram @truelykadi my fashion BFF! and Ashley instagram @ashleyjanette91 another fashion friend!! Both have been on this journey with me through the Clothing and textile Major!! 

This is the last time I have a lecture or lab class in here :,( but I'm not worried I'll be back lol It is a great program and it's just getting better and better!! If you live in Palmdale or Lancaster California and you love fashion you should start here. I want to transfer to CSUN for Apparel and Merchandising Bachelors degree!! I can't wait to accomplish my goals!

Antelope Valley College Fashion show 2013

Since this was my last semester in one of the Clothing and Textile classes, I was asked by my professor Melissa Ramiro to create a clothing line :D so I had to find time from my school schedule to prepare this line, My trade name is JRuby.... I know your all probably wondering what it stands for?? lol Well its basically who I am, "J" stands for July my birthday month and Ruby for my Birth stone. Its simple and generalizes me!!

My Line by JRuby

    A total of five designs: 3 women's wear and 2 menswear. I had so much fun creating this line, when I started this program I was more of a punk style person and I never really had a chance to make a line on that  so when I had the opportunity and I took it.  

 I had both my sisters help me as models, well I kinda wanna say forced them too help lol My sister Alexis is in the red double breasted sweater instagram @rainbowbright456 and Jasmine is the one in the blue sweater instagram @jazzykitty_88. They did a good job!

 

My friend Fabi and also fellow blogger as well helped me too. Her instagram is @onegirlsempire and to see more pictures from the fashion show go to her blog ^w^ www.onegirlsempire.com  thank you Fabi!!!

 Thanks to both Ivan, and Diego Hernandez.

Awesome male models. This semester turned out great I past Flat pattern CT 222. The day was crazy, but I had so much fun with everyone, especially because this was the first time my mother came to see my accomplishments!! All the styling was done by Me! and Pictures were from a fellow classmate.  

  

Fashion Symposium 2013

This was a past event that I went to this semester, but it was awesome to go with some classmates and my professor Melissa Ramiro. Good thing  I didn't change my mind about going. I woke up at 5:00 am on a Saturday lol We took the metro to get to this place plus a cab. I was able to listen and talk to some very important people in the business. Plus get some free stuff lol :P hopefully the rumors I herd weren't true and we have this happen again! thanks to the design students at Long Beach Cal State College for making this happen!!

 A lot of different schools were here! it was Antelope Valley Colleges first time and we had a blast!! Some of the students in my major entered work in the symposium as well, we went to represent our school and show some support! Next year my professor said she would be apart of the judging committee cool!:)

Here's a picture of one of the floors in the market center where a lot of industry people were doing presentations and some student presentation boards were displayed.

After we had a chance to speak with the college students and industry people, we took the opportunity to also head to Micheal Levines near the fabric district ;) lol Now we were just waiting for the fashion show to start!! yay!

Finally it starts! The categories were: costume, sports wear, and formal. In all the categories they picked a winner. I personally didn't agree with some of the first prized winners, but hey if they come from your school I'd pick them too.... sigh* so unfair!! Just hearing our schools name was awesome!!!! AVC!  

Here's a snap shot of the end of the show! After this we had to wait 1 hour for door prizes to end, which was ridiculous. Our school didn't even get picked of the dress forms they were giving away :,( well at least we made it on the metro with only 20 minutes to get to the Union Station lol I was so tired when I went home, but I had a great time!! can't wait for the next one Hopefully!!

Intro to Blog

Hello people of the blogging world this my first time with a blog! Just want to say I'm excited lets get started!! :D My whole Idea isn't just about fashion advise, I will also share cool links to videos or websites I think you all should check out. I'm also going to do tutorials on sewing methods I think are awesome. I can also be followed on  Instagram @kittyfurfurhk. or I also have a Facebook page *Crystal Fashion Adviser*!!!