Me and my DBD Resort 2009 collection at the ‘My Grandma’s Backyard‘  home-, hand-made and vintage fashion & accessories event, 3 Aug 2008, Bucharest, Romania.

As I told you here a couple of weeks ago, I attended the fourth edition of the ‘My Grandma’s Backyard‘ home-, hand-made and vintage fashion & accessories event, with a couple of dresses from my Resort (Pre-Summer 2009) collection (I will post the look book soon, I promise). While the public response to my latest work was very pleasing, the sales were not that great. The event was fun to attend, meeting and seeing all sorts of interesting and creative people, however, most attendees came with second hand/vintage clothes to sell, offering all sorts of bargains, which were hard to resist for the people who were there. My work was at a higher price point than the second hand stuff and I felt the difference in the sales.
My dresses  were in a totally different direction than the whole mood of the event, which was of course: vintage. For the Diana Bobar Design Resort 2009 collection I made floaty and feminine garments in pinkish and pale colors, with degraded purple spray painted details, made from fabrics such as cotton, organza and silk. I only wish there would have been more young designers present. Maybe someone could pick the idea up, and actually organize some sort of networking for up-and coming Romanian designers, who could periodically meet up and have some sort of a ’sale’ together. Would certainly be fun.

All in all it was a positive experience and I am glad I was there.

Images from the 4th edition of the ‘My Grandma’s Backyard‘ home-, hand-made and vintage fashion & accessories event.

Dana Coteanu aka. ‘Marijuana’ is a well-known Romanian hip-hop artist. We grew up listening to her songs (see one of her biggest hits here and here) and now she actually had fun trying out my clothes and we staged a small photo-shoot too. We certainly had fun and it’s obvious she knows how to move and has a great presence in front of the camera. I’m so glad to see her rocking my designs.

First picture: me and Dana Coteanu aka. ‘Marijuana’. Belated official ‘Happy Birthday’ for the fab organizer of the event, Gabriela-Maria Vlad (first in the second pic).