Bolero fashion magazine, August 2008 issue.

The Diana Bobar spring ‘08 dress that was featured in the ‘Greek Goddess’ spread, worn as a top. Versatile and accesorized perfectly!

I actually can’t believe it either: two of my dresses were featured in an actual fashion magazine, called Bolero, which all my girlfriends get and read, so imagine their excitement. Multiply that by a gazillion and think that that’s how I feel. It’s a sense of adrenaline mixed with a relaxed feeling of accomplishment. And it’s only the beginning, right? Also amazing is that one of the dresses was featured on the editor’s choice page, next to a cute cute pair of Coca Zaboloteanu sandals.

It’s worthy of appreciating the fact that the stylists and editors of the magazine try to really promote and help young designers (such as myself, and Coca), they’re not only playing by the rules of the ‘mafia’ in fashion (remember that scandal about Italian Vogue?).

Cheers to believing in dreams and watching as they slowly but surely come true!

I am mostly flatered to be featured next to designs from already established Romanian designers such as Maria Lucia Hohan, whom I deeply admire, Claudia Castrase, Andreea Raicu for Irina Schrotter. I can’t wait to meet them sometime (hopefully soon) and let them know face-to-face how flattered I feel to actually have a garment (that I myself made) featured next to their lovely designs.

‘Greek Goddess‘ fashion spread published in the August issue of Bolero magazine. Photographer: Ciprian Strugariu; stylist: Ailin Ibraim, stylist assistant: Andreea Jivcovici; make-up: Alina Nacu; hair: Bogdan Mirica; model: Iulia Savulescu/One Models.

The last picture is a closeup photograph in which the model wears of one of my dresses from the spring 2008 collection, as a top, with the most amazing belt ever, from Claudia Castrase. This just proves that the work of a stylist is extremely important, mostly because it’s a different/better point of view on the garment that one designer makes. Absolutely love how it looks and the fact that one of my mom’s friends told me she would totally wear the top like this, makes me give even more kudos to the stylists.

A big big Thank You to all the people involved, and if you want to get that dress/top, you can find it in the Ummagumma store in Bucharest.

Yes, I got another pair of shoes. Yes, I told you about my latest shoe-buying problem. No, it did not stop. These are the latest peep-toe platform sandals that I accidentally got (they were on a huge sale in store that I entered by, uhm, mistake). Ok, so it was no accident that I got them, but it was one that I found them, they were just laying around, the only pair left. Seriously, I strongly believe they were waiting for me. No, I am not crazy.

Anyway, I had to wear them out and I wanted to classically wear this bold hue of red with and animal printed top. So cliche, I  know. But also, in my opinion a timeless look (animal print and red). And I felt comfortable and confident and even if the heel is pretty high (12 cm), I could dance all night without any feet-aches or problems like that.

I went out with my friends in a club, my sister was out with her friends in another club and we got home together. It’s pretty great when you have a sis about your age (3 year difference in our case) to have a great time with. Also, she is my no. 1 fan when it comes to the clothes that I make, because, of course, she gets to wear them for free. Here she wore one of the tops that I made when I first started sewing, less than one year ago. Fun!

Even though I had all the graduation exams stress going on the last couple of weeks, work did not wait for me to finish University. But I’m glad that now, when I finally got over all that mad stress, I get to enjoy looking at and posting pics of my recent fabulous clients wearing their Diana Bobar Design dresses.

You might remember Diana, from the post about the dress I made for her (read here). I told you she is gorgeous, now I can prove that I am right about that. Absolutely love her in the dress, it fits her perfectly and she seems to be enjoying herself a lot and that’s eventually all that matters. Fab Diana in fab dress, don’t you think?

I’m sure you remember Ruxi for back when I was photographing her for the website. I’m glad she turned to me in making her a couple of dresses for some weddings she will attend to this summer. The most important one is her sister’s pale pink themed wedding in the heavenly Cote D’Azur. However, this champagne colored dress is for her boss’ wedding taking place this Saturday. Congratulations to all the future brides and congratulations to Ruxi for looking like a perfect, cute doll.

I featured Leontina quite a lot recently and I’m glad about that, because she is a good friend of mine. Neverminding the fact that we are BFF’s, she purchased a lot of clothes that I made, and it makes me very happy to see her wearing the suff that I made when we go out. That is such a great feeling! She doesn’t come over to my place very often, just because we both are so busy working, but whenever she does, she loves to try out all the dresses she sees around and always ends up getting something new. Great to have such friends, no?

These are some variations on this type of dress that I first made for the spring 2008 colection. It turned out to be a great success commercially (meaning I sold it a lot) and I’m thinking of making it in different types of colors/fabrics. The best part is that I integrate some thin strech bands at the waist, for a better fit. Get ready to see more variations of this dress very soon.

I made these two dresses in one day only: making the pattern, cutting the fabric, sewing the dresses, fitting it on the client, finishing them and also applying the Swarovsky cristals with my own fingers at the end. I must admit it was like a working marathon that day, but as long as the client was happy, I was happy, so it was all good! And I actually loved how the purple dress turned out; I’m not much of an orange fan, so nevermind the one :).

Mara promised to send me pictures from the wedding she wore her dress to. However, good thing that I made some on my own, so that I can post them right now. I made it in basic black, so that it can be worn with different types/colors of belts. Also, I came up with the idea of the golden pleats bolero after I made a basic black one which was too tight. Yes, stress can get positive results.

Gabriela, the organiser of the ‘My Grandma’s Backyard‘ fashion&accessories event wore this kimono jacket from hte fall’08 colection, at one of the event’s editions. Lovely how she wore it with Coca Zaboloteanu shoes and it does look like she had a lot of fun! I am still so very sorry that I couldn’t attent the B’est Fest music Festival. I heard Roisin Murphy was in Gabriela’s tent. How amazing was it if she would have looked through my clothes and actually got something??? Oh, well, maybe next time!

Kate is the sweetest girl from Skokie, IL, U.S.A . It took some time for the dresses to get ot her, but eventually the wait was over and as you can see, she likes and rocks them a lot! Thank you so much Kate for both the support and the patience, and I can’t wait to send you more of my designs, all the way to U.S.A.

Still have to finish a few orders today, but this weekend I plan to go visit my parents and meet all my friends (everybody is vacationing right now, so most are back in their/my hometown), hopefully even have summer fun in the sun, at a lovely lake not far from where my parents live. Will get back to work next week however, because I can’t really take too many days off (the work would just pile up and it’s not goot to work under so much stress - talking from experience), also, I got my first wedding dress order, so I’m quite excited about that!

Hopefully buying shoes is just a temporary summer obsession for me. I usually used to want to get overpriced designer clothes, but now that I can make them myself, the obsession shifted towards accessories: shoes and handbags. While I got the perfect purple handbag that I wanted, now I’m on the hunt for cute, affordable shoes. Of course I want high heels and being this tall (1,78 cm), it’s normal that I wear a bigger shoe-size (EUR 40, US 10, UK 7) which makes the process of buying shoes that more difficult and depressing. Had luck today at the Stone Creek store where I found these cute gray-with-tiny-pink-hearts pumps and a bow on the side. They are actually comfortable and were on sale, so that was great. It’s also Ok that they are a neutral color so that I can wear them with this summer-top I made recently. I just had some spare yellow fabric and I just sewed it together in like 2 hours. Easy and comfortable to wear, it’s also summer-appropriate and cute, right?

Put these lovely examples of perfect, sky high heels in the ‘wish I could afford them’ category. [from top to bottom, left to right: Christian Louboutin, Burberry Prorsum, Miu Miu, Il Passo; photo credit: net-a-porter.com]

Navy Top, Pink Satin Dress, White Organza dress available right now at the Flu auction for charity.

Participate at the Flu contest and win this very versatile dress.

You might remember when I wrote about me participating at the Flu bidding auction (find post here) for a good cause. Well, new pieces were added to the bidding auction, also a contest is organized for the same charity, dedicated to helping raise money for children in need from Sulina, a poor town in the eastern part of Romania. All you need to do is tell 3 friends about the auction and you automatically get the chance to win this super versatile dress, that can be worn also as a high-waisted, bubble skirt. The stretch fabric is easy to wear, it also has tiny black dots (’drops’) on the fabric, hand-made by myself, with black textile color, which does not go out when washing. To enter the contest just click here.