chaos

It is all in full swing at the moment at the studio, SS toiles are fast being made with the help of a couple lovely interns:) It all looks a little bit chaotic, but actually it all makes sense to me. at the end of all this process, after the final fittings and adjustments, we still manage to come out with a less chaotic design, but the process is far from it. In my head I can accurately see what I am making, maybe that is just the process I need to get a product at the end that has simple minimal shapes, but until the final product is in my hands, the is a lot of "noise" around it. I am very excited about the next season, since I feel that we are slowly reaching the goal that we set for RIYKA'S development, step by step.

Its all about the love

A couple of months ago, I asked my trusty friend, and amazing photographer Anya holdstock, to take some portrait images of us for the website.
we made a silly GIF with them in the end, but here are some of the images that didnt get in...
but I think they capture our personalty pretty well!
The final product is on the website

OK, I am very embarssed, and feel incredibaly guilty...I have been so caught up on instagram, twitter, facebook, and pinterest that I have completely neglected my beloved blog. I have now decided that it will get my undying love once a week, which I know is not a lot at all, but considering the are 24 hours in a 7 days a week, and I have to work on 2 collections, love my husband, be a good wife, and keep some sort of social life going(that is not a viral one), I think that is more then sufficient:)
anyway thank goodness I treated myself to an iPad (subliminal advertising for apple) which helps me keep things updated, and also takes fantastic photos:))))))so I have gathered here a small collection of images, basically recapping on what we have been up to, in the last few weeks; mostly developing SS 13, which will include some print, accessories and a little bit of menswear...all new ideas for RIYKA, but completely a natural progression (and also my husband feels very neglected) the images are also from instagram, how could they not be!?(couldn't help be cynical)

me looking all "casual" while working on my patterns

studio mess, with SS 12 stock, and AW 12 samples

print development for SS 13

more print development

line list and range plan for SS 13

colors and fabrics for SS13...still not sure about these...it will all probably change last minute, as usual

toiling bags

this will be called the lazy bag:))))

SS PRODUCTION DONE AND DUSTED

It has been a hard stressful month with getting all the pieces cut for the sample machinists, I can now say that I am truly happy that we did it, with the help of a lovely intern and my responsible husband:) I have learnt so much from this month, its not easy to put together a big production, but it made me think of different points in my design that I could change in order of making it easier, or more accessible to produce. but still, we had fun, like with everything else we do!! **all pictures thanks to my instgram

I am not a skater boy

cleaning up my memory disk on my camera, I came across these lovely images I took at an opening for Tim Hans at the print space in shoreditch
I am no skater boy/girl, but I just love how these images are so real, its dificult to capture the skater culture with out it looking like every other skater image you have seen, but these are special

TEXTILE INSPIRATION SS 12

working on the flat drawings for SS 12 production, and playing with the triangles in my dresses created some fun textures, it cant all be boring paper work and hours of boring Photoshop when you are madly stressed about production, I am sure the will be more of these little visual teasers:))

Hello stranger

I am so busy updating all my other social networking bitts and bobbs that I forgot about my dear blogger, my lovely friend anya holdstock, who shot my SS 12 look book, used a couple of the AW 11-12 for a recent shoot she did
I love these images, the is something very textural about them, its always nice to see the pieces in a new light