My Website!

Finally have my website up and running thanks to a helpful and talented someone! It features some of my work that I've done within fashion. Hope everyone can enjoy it!


Check it out:  www.nataliecarfora.co.uk

The thing about menswear...

Since I was younger, it had always been about designing clothes for women..dresses, skirts..all things pretty and feminine. However, once I delved into my first menswear project, this all changed. I always thought menswear would not appeal to me, I had this pre-conceived idea that menswear should be designed by men, since it's men who would wear it and know what's good or not. But that's never really been the case and I've been proved outright wrong! Menswear is about detail, shape..the attention to finer things. I've actually become so much more drawn to design menswear than womenswear because of this. However, having done my final major project on womenswear I am tugging between the two, which is frustrating! But the advantage is that I appreciate womenswear in a different light, so rather just having body clinging silhouettes, there is room to explore for more loose relaxed fitting clothes. The effect of menswear also has me buying much more looser relaxed clothing, something I used to totally avoid! Not to mention it's more comfy aswell! I cannot say whether it's mens or womenswear that I enjoy working with more, but I do know that menswear is like the dark horse. It may look like it is simple to design but with clever thought and attention to detail, it can be more successful than womenswear. Maybe it's about time we give more credit to menswear designers...?