Soul path... inspired creAtivity

Triumph over the impossible

Bumble bee jasper according to Judy Hall stimulates new projects...

Love and good fortune rush towards you

Someone new lights up your life

Trust

Sueme Creative Studio

Where creativity and sustainability core values expand....with bespoke luxury gilets designed and made one by one with best eco-friendly components coupled with lasting craftsmanship

And Craig’s fabrics donations from his stock housed near the studio, going to good causes to continue feeding into the “less waste” more innovative approaches to growing new industries... 

The perfect loop to keep local industries flourishing and to offer customers a taste of bespoke luxury and unique style at affordable prices

www.sueme.com 

Own your Own...

Through the course of a much enjoyed gathering and sharing of ideas with friends last night , I was very inspired to share my story... on how to Own our Own emotions by becoming an innovator, reflector, creator...

A journey which I started myself in 1991, when researching for my Master's thesis in French Literature at Boston University, discovering the painting of women in 3D shapes such as precious natural stones in Beaudelaire "Les Fleurs du Mal" , a journey I translated into fashion and textile design shared with the wider public since 2008, and enjoying it today, as we have reached the 20th of July, exactly 50 years after the first man walked on the moon... sharing the Face of the Moon with us to inspire our lives beyond imagination...

Here it is the sunset at the Wetlands near Tottenham Hale... looking very white and shiny like the Silver Lady under the reflector's beams...

More Designer's Stories...

Through the course of sharing the design process over the pas 11 years... I created a small moodboard with a simple contrast to display the process quickly and inspire others to design their own visual map to keep organised while releasing the design process...

It starts with the eye of the desigenr in the left top corner and finish with the eyes or lips of other people in pink on the right.
There are 6 steps to discover along the way...

Meeting Grayson Perry and Kansai Yamamoto

THANK YOU,,,

Name dropping is not usually cool, but on a hot summer enchanting evening at the British Museum, stars mingled with the rest of us and made it feel so cool and refreshingly human...
The Manga Fashion show was delightfully amazing bringing together students of the arts from around the world to share with us their 3D amazing visions of what it is to be part of Manga culture opening a fresh perspective on the cultural theme for those less familiar with up and coming youth cultural mediatic developments.

Against this modern futuristic display of phenomenal talent came views which also brought us back to comforting values: Grayson Perry shared his four most cherished rules of success with us:
1- be on time
2- be nice
3- work relentlessly
4- trust your intuition

He said the last one takes years of therapy and that if any of these go missing, success will elude...
Many thanks for reminding us of these essential daily ingredients, and so good to have a chat with you and friends after the show.

I guess one main ingredient present throughout the whole evening was positivity, without which none of this would have ever happen, the power of a positive sharing creative spirit might be so obvious like air and water for artists such as Grayson Perry and Kansai Yamamoto that they never mentioned it directly, yet it was lifting the whole event.

Grayson Perry mentioned the British Museum was an enormous source of cultural exchanges to visit and enjoy on a daily basis and Kansai Yamamoto kindly invited all students and models onto the stage, showing great spirit for cultural exchanges, which to me is the secret positive ingredient for all positive developments, passing on the baton to the younger generation is the best gesture and message to share.

So a big thank you to these very larger than life yet so sharing activists of the creative put to good: Kansai's suit was amazing, portraying a white polar bear trying to climb over an ice patch...
THANK YOU BOTH! and Thank you C. for inviting us... Your creation was out of this world...

Mon Nouveau StudioSuemeSolstice

Pour mon cousin Alain en Francais... voila le nouveau studio SueMe Solstice, des plantes des bamboos comme a Hanoi en Asie mon cousin, la bonne ambiance, le travail ...ca boome, nouveau design Veste polaire funky coupee sur mesure pour JimRod en taille XXL - j'aime ca la coupe, la mise en place --- c est la magie des mains... toi tu connais ca avec ta musique... ici beau soleil chaud a Londres... bizzzz

Dans ce grand Hangar Jools fait la distribution du Buff, un tour de cou coupe vent qui vient d une compagnie pres de Barcelone... on a un peu pousse le piano... et les motos/ velos... pour faire la place a la machine a coudre, qui vient de mon ancien Studio at Tottenham, et placee chez SueMe avant l'Asie...

Le Float (grand chariot comme au carnaval) contre le Brexit est entrepose par ceux qui essaient de dire que c'est une erreur... moi je pense que chaque europeen aurait du voter pour dire si on commencait la division de l'Europe ou pas, et comment faire pour demarrer cette page historique...
Voila ce qu'on peut lire en France dans les gares publiques, bon message a cherir et partager...

Ici Collioure, Architecture Maure a la frontiere entre France et Espagne partagee "paisiblement" par les Catalans... l'histoire a demande des sacrifices, savourons l'entente, la paix et les droits internationaux humains, quelques fois compromis voire eradiques par les systemes postfeodaux regis par les monarchies archaiques qui voudraient s'appeler democracies....

SewingSkills

How to sew  a SueMe Gilet ... takes precision, patience, a good back and a good pair of glasses after so many years of attention to details... be it sketching, pattern cutting, cutting the garment or assembling it...

Umbrella...

So the goal is to help, support, heal. remain one to oneself... and grow calmly...

Since 2008 I have thought it was time to put real actions into motions and shared my skills and visions in a concrete way by sharing design pattern cutting and making with everyone who wished to learn...
Backed by strong beliefs that if we did not try to start saving resources landing in the dumps, such as whole factories or fabric merchants closing down... soon humans living in cities would be left with little choices to find jobs using their hands in a creative way...

So these seeds of goodness  have been shared and are growing... 

Some of the ideas to share with students are centered around making our planet better and our lives happier, globally:

- guidance to produce Ethically in North London Boutique factory

- understand a sustainable clothing company challenges

- imagine a campaign to help change the industry for good...looking at the whole garment life cycle

Here some stories regarding the impact of creativity to heal communities... save wastes, and help the circular economy...

HOW MANY...

Someone asked me twice how many gilets I made... which when you source design pattern cut and make... which include designing and hand cutting and making labels, too, matching the checks from factory offcuts wool, one by one...
sounds like an overwhelming question... which first time around I escaped with a smile, but second time was slightly disturbed...

So from visiting the factory...

to making one's own pressing "ham"

to discussing all elements in details many times with very inspiring and patient Jools 

to reviewing patterns based on real size guies... who depending... can also present shape challenges...

Cutting labels by hand 

and finally punching studs in by hand  

This is how long it takes to make a garment and for those who reduce this whole creative process by counting the time to assemble each piece and count how many garments were made ... 

The Thanet friendly community sharing

A super night at the Thanet... thanks

Kyle was also amazing by choosing a great Youtube channel name for the sewing group meeting once a month, and displaying videos of highlihgts of our class on Wednesday...

  SEWHUB  here we show how to do a "rub-off"  which was officially shown at the School of Fashion Design in Boston, as part of our pattern making classes for the industry...

Rainbow over the Mediterranee

Still grey sky light and dark clouds over mer agitee