Showing posts with label Hawaiian dresses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hawaiian dresses. Show all posts

April 03, 2006

Hawaiian Paradise Line pt 4 : Photoshoot

We finally had our photo shoot for our Hawaiian Sundress Line. It was so fun to see our dresses on live babies. And the girls were so adorable. Here are a few pictures:





March 27, 2006

Hawaiian Paradise Line pt. 3 : Adding flowers

This is my favorite part of the production process. Decoration time! The dresses really come alive. Here are some sneak peaks at some of the silk flowers and ribbons I used on these dresses:



The flowers have a pin back for easy removal during cleaning. The pins have a safety latch to prevent poking by a sharp point.



I had many flowers to choose from!



I love the combination of pink and light green! Very pretty.

March 09, 2006

Hawaiian Paradise Line

About six months ago, I had worked on a design project for a friend of mine, Scott, to be placed in his store Blackpearl Designs. His store specializes in Hawaiian products such as pareos (sarongs or lava lavas, jewelry, Tahitian candles, etc.). I had fabric left over from that first project sitting in my design studio. It has been staring at me for months.

The fabric is truly special. Scott, also a graphic designer, custom designed this fabric for his pareos. The fabric is first dyed and then screen printed by hand in Indonesia. It is exclusively available from him. Scott's fabrics are the blue and gold on the left below. He also has a red and green shown further below. I bought some additional Hawaiian prints that are pretty too.

More fabrics


Nothing is more dangerous than leaving really cool fabric laying around in a design studio. It practically screams at you to do something with it. Since I design children's clothing, I didn't think the fabric would be suitable for my customers. That is until I tried it anyway. What has come out is a line of really fun girl's sundresses in 6 colors and sized 0-3M to 24M. Each colorway is limited in quantity and sizing.

Here is a sneak preview:

Completed dresses

As you can see, we are still in the middle of production and we are working as fast as possible to have them ready by April 1st. The dresses will have flower pins or headbands as accessories. You can currently buy pareos or fabric in Scott's store (hurry, they are selling fast!). These dresses would make a great mother-daughter combo for your Hawaiian vacation.

And if you can't get enough pictures, here is a sneak peak at one of our cute models wearing our red dress: