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Romantique Couture
Cockermouth
CA13 0RA
T: 01900 824329
M: 07812 210880
Email: angy@
angymorton.com
The trials and tribulations of a fashion designer in the Lake District
ARCHIVE: my previous entries:
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2011 Designer Weddings - Not Responding - Austerity Shoot - Top Model UK 2012 - Fashion Weeks
AUGUST 2011 Day at the Races - RedDress:BlackDress Fashion Shoot - Rhythmatic - White Wedding
JULY 2011 Walk on the Beach - Bring on the Bugs - Valentino - Photo Shoot with Mike Kells - Whitehaven Festival
MAY-JUNE 2011 Whitehaven Festival - Catwalk on Water - Revolution - Lady Gaga - Labour behind the Label - Red Dress:Black Dress
MARCH-APRIL 2011 Ordinary Gir -Alternative Royal Wedding - Fern on the Wireless - RAdo One Big Weekend - Reflections
FEBRUARY 2011 Royal Wedding Dress - Giggle Alley - Save Lakeland's Forests - Wedding Blog - Cartmel - Fashizblack
JANUARY 2011 Save Our Forests - Big Fat Gypsy Wedding - Sexism in Football - Going Bespoke: Pros & Cons
DECEMBER 2010 Snowbound - Message to Mike Ashley - Charity Event Pics - Red Dress Black Dress - Accessories
NOVEMBER 2010 Fault Magazine - Designer Wedding Dresses - Brathay Trust - Honister - Teenage Cancer Event - Burning Dress
OCTOBER 2010 BUTiQ - Atomic - Walk on the Wild Side - Sweet Charity: Toma Fund - AM Models Event - Rails to the Isles
SEPTEMBER 2010 London Fashion Week - Fashion for a Cause - Fashion Mavericks - Talenthouse - Ladies Fanwear - Zoe Gadd
AUGUST 2010 House of Fraser - BUTiQ: ready-to-wear with a difference - Ladies, Gents, Fashion Designers ..., Worst Nightmare
JUNE - JULY 2010 Fashion Mavericks - Pyromania - Catwalk Curves - Victorian Wedding Dress - Quest for an Orchid
MAY - JUNE 2010 London Calling - Little Black Dress - Dress Sizes - Holiday Hangover - Pam Carter - Skye - Mackintosh
Bottom of Page for more Archive Pages
AUSTERITY COLLECTION
&
RED DRESSBLACK DRESS
Are YOU looking for
Something completely DIFFERENT?
Do YOU want to
STAND OUT from the Crowd?
Unique, bespoke fashions and limited edition,
hand-made-to measure collections
by avant-garde designer Angy Morton,
are now available online
at BUTiQ
Unique commissions
also available to select boutiques
Price from ONLY £99.00
for limited edition
hand-made-to-measure
designer dresses by Angy
USEFUL LINKS:
CLICK for: BBC Blazing Dress Video Clip
CLICK for: LFW FASHION MAVERICKS video clips on YouTube
CLICK for: LFW FASHION MAVERICKS catwalk pictures
CLICK for: JALOUSE LFW CLOSING SHOW video clips on YouTube
CLICK for: LAVISH & LUXE: STOLEN DREAMS video clips on YouTube
CLICK for: STOLEN DREAMS LAUNCH video clips on YouTube
CLICK for: MySpace
CLICK for: Fashion Industry Network
Michelle Serrechia
Photo: Brian Sherwen
16-17 March 2012: Top Model UK - Hilton Metropole, London LINK
Spring 2012: ROMANTICA from Angy
CLICK HERE for Image Gallery from my RED DRESS:BLACKDRESS FASHION SHOOT
Stephanie Wood modelling 'No Futures' and Michelle Serrechia modelling 'Deco-Dance'; Hats by Tracy Wells (HatBox);
Photo: Mike Kells
12 November, 2011: North West Evening Mail - Fashion fireball's designs set against island bricks
12 November, 2011: As above - link to newsapaper article with images (PDF - 500KB)
September, 2011: Lake District Life & Lancashire Life - Angy's clothes are just ORE-SOME (feature)
1 September, 2011: Miss Stylicious Blogspot - Preview: New dress designs by Angy Morton
25 August, 2011: Whitehaven News - Fashion Industry: in vogue at Haig (front page & feature)
25 August, 2011: News & Star - Fashion Shoot held at Cumbrian Mining Museum
16 June, 2011: News & Star - Whitehaven sets the stage for festival Madness
16 June, 2011: Whitehaven News - The stage is set for biggest weekend in Copeland's year
16 May, 2011: BBC Radio Cumbria - R1BW Lady Gaga fashions - Ian Timms Breakfast Show
29 April, 2011: BBC Radio Cumbria - commentiry on Royal Wedding Dress - Kevin Fernihough
29 April, 2011: Guardian.co.uk - Royal Wedding Live Blog - Really Common Royal Wedding
28 April, 2011: Whitehaven News - I'll show you 'Normal', says local artist Angy
20 April, 2011: North West Evening Mail - Designer offers royal alternative
19 April, 2011: News & Star - A wife less ordinary
14 April, 2011: BBC Radio Cumbria - Kevin Fernihough - Lady Gaga & avant garde fashionsl
PRESS RELEASE - 13 APRIL, 2011
FASHION DESIGNER CREATES 'ORDINARY GIRL' ROYAL WEDDING
Avant-garde fashion designer, Angy Morton, has organised an unusual fashion shoot to pose the question, "What if the heir to the throne had really chosen an 'ordinary' girl to be his bride?
See PRESS PAGE for full details
1 April, 2011: BBC RADIO CUMBRIA - Breakfast Show - Mike Parr & Sally Moon - Lady Gaga
January-February 2011: Fashizblack Magazine: Contrasts: Warriors & Godesses (photoshoot)
14 November 2010: Fault Magazine: Imperia Staffieri (photoshoot)
6 November, 2010: The Journal - Stars give a smalls bit of help
5 November, 2010: The Keswick Reminder - Burning Dress on Honister
5 November, 2010: Evening Chronicle - Sports stars in fundraiser for cancer charity
4 November, 2010: BBC TYNE -Video Clip- Fashion designer sets dress on fire to raise money
2 November, 2010: Westmorland Gazette 'South Lakeland designer blazes a trail in fashion world')
21 September, 2010: Westmorland Gazette 'Fashion designer to unveil new collection'
20 September, 2010: Blow 'LFW Day 2 - Romantique Couture'
20 September, 2010: Fashion Mavericks 'Day Two in Pictures'
16 September, 2010: West Ham United Official Website 'Claret and blue couture'
NEWS - NEWS - NEWS ...
OSCAR ALFIE
Born 28.11.2011
Mum & Baby doing very well
HUGE thanks to all the wonderful people at Furness General
who have helped me to bring little Oscar into the world
... normal service will be resumed shortly !!!!
Carlisle student, and model, Michelle Serrechia is one of 100 finalists that have been selected out of over 4000 entries, in five main show categories, for the prestigious Top Model UK 2012.
Michelle, who achieved a Joint BA (honours) Degree in Dance Performance and Musical Theatre at the University of Cumbria, is now studying a PGCE to teach BTEC performing arts.
“At the interview I was extremely nervous so I was over the moon when I was put through to the final,” says Michelle. “Just being selected as a finalist is beyond my dreams.”
“If I do well I hope to gain professional modelling work and a casting for London Fashion Week; but above all, I want to enjoy the experience and meet lots of new people.”
Michelle has gained experience working with local photographers and as a face for local fashion designer Angy Morton, modelling her alternative Royal wedding dress, and new collections.
“I am forever scouting for models for my avant garde designs and have found that Cumbria has fantastic potential for new talent,” says Angy who is Michelle’s official sponsor for the Grand Final of Top Model UK 2012.
“The moment I saw Michelle I realised she has potential to become a professional model; she has the right looks, style, personality and attitude, and I am confident she can go far in developing her career. I wish her every success and look forward to continuing to work with her in the future.”
Now in its sixth hugely successful year, Top Model has established itself as the leading nationwide and international professional fashion industry model search campaign and event.
The Top Model campaigns are not beauty pageants, but pride themselves on their pure model search ethos, with all of the top prizes and opportunities for the finalists and award winners being focused on the fashion and model industries.
Photo: Mike Kells
The 2012 campaigns will reach their climax at the Grand Finals which will take place at the Hilton Metropole in London on 16-17 March, 2012.
NOTES
For further information about Top Model UK & Top Model Worldwide please check their website www.topmodeluk.com
There should be more celebrities coming forward and talking to the protesters outside London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, like Vivienne Westwood today. In many respects I think they are so right – and so is she. People feel powerless at the moment so what alternative do they have but to protest?
We are all trained and brainwashed to be consumers these days! Well not all of us...some of us are going for what we actually need rather then what we would like every five minutes ... or what the YV tells us we should have! Maybe this recession will help to remind us all of the true real values in life? Family, politeness, respect, kindness, love...the real ‘possessions’ that keep us going and make us feel alive.
What future can we give to our kids if all they can ever see and hear is celebrities and what they are wearing or what are the latest must have gadgets and gizmos. Society at all levels is saturated with ‘have’ or worse ‘want now’. Of course the financial situation doesn’t help as we now have a bigger gap between the rich and the poor; an imbalance that is now even worse than it was in the 20’s. So much for progress! That in itself is telling us we need to change. In particular, the people at the top have to change.
I recently watched the original ‘Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin’ with the wonderful Leonard Rossiterthe concept of selling 'Grot:, absolute rubbish, was hilarious. It was comedy then, a joke; but nowadays it is verging on reality! Seriously, just look around your house and count how many ‘things’ you haven’t touched or used in the last six month? How many things do we buy that actually serve no purpose other than perhaps boosting our egos? How many ‘possessions’ do we actually need to be happy? Or what do we need to makes us happy for more than 5 minutes since with all the goods and possessions in the world we’re still more miserable now than we were in the 50’s. My biggest worry is the point that Vivienne Westwood rose. ‘No art today’.
In a way I cannot feel it so much here in the Lake District as I am still surrounded by photographers, artists, arts and crafts, poets, writers, painters ... etc. However, what I found in my job is that aspiring fashion designers haven’t got that freedom anymore – they cannot come up with ideas without being influenced by other big designers or celebrities/designers. The concept of ‘be yourself’ seems to have disappeared. They seem to me that they are pushed into various boxes created by the industry and their vocabulary has a lot of ‘I must’ ‘I have to’ ...and nothing else. Even though I live in such an inspiring place, others don’t seem to realise or understand that even a simple walk can inspire me to create a new collection, rather than flicking through fashion mags all day long. References, scrap book, the inspiration board are not in ‘fashion’ anymore – how ironic – but CAD’s last version or VB’s last collection soo much ‘in’ and soo cool. Eh?
Like she said yesterday ‘We have nothing else cheap left to exploit. We are in complete danger from a lack of culture. We were all trained to be consumers ... throw away the past and the future will take care of itself, catch the latest thing and suck it up. We don’t have any art today’ AN ART LOVER IS A FREEDOM FIGHTER. She is soo right.
See more: Designer Vivienne Westwood addresses St Paul's camp
My latest adventure was the modelling competition organized by my good friends in Barrow, Mike Kells and his daughter Dawn from Kells Photography.
There were initially 27 girls, but 6 lost their nerve and backed down, so we were left with 21 aspiring models on the night. Poor things! I know how frightening it can be for them. To be out there in the spotlight, with hundreds of eyes staring at you ... panic sets in, and then its run, run!! However, even those girls that were absolutely terrified they’ve did very well. And I have to admit that I spotted a few lovely models with great potential I think. Lovely features, great pose, nice body shape and good personality. We do have good looking lasses around Cumbria ).
Modelling is about looks, knowing how to walk and how to pose, and about selling an image, but it can also be about what’s in your head and your future aspirations. There are criticisms, but as far as I am concerned what is important is empowering the girls and giving them self-confidence. Sometimes they may have struggled academically or in other walks of life, so creating a persona on a stage or for the camera, can be very important for them, in proving that they can be somebody.
Kells Modelling Competition 2010
11 November, 2011
You Tube Clip - 1
Over 18 category; catwalk show with avant garde designs by Angy Morton
Kells Modelling Competition 2010
11 November, 2011
You Tube Clip - 1
Over 18 category; catwalk show with hast by Tracy Wells (TheHatBox) and lingerie by Ann Summers; introduction by Stephanioe Wood and Rachael Salmon
Congratulations to everybody who participated on the night, and especially to the two winners, Germaine McKenzie in the over 18’s category, and Lucinda Irving in the under 18’s. I am sure you will be seeing plenty more of those two and, who knows, perhaps some of the others too. Roll on the next photo shoot!
Nice Austerity fashion shoot feature - weblink: Fashion fireball's designs set against island bricks;
newspaper feature with images: (PDF - 500KB)
Photoshoot with Mike Kells
Just back from a quick photoshoot with Mike Kells in hs new studio. He has been keen to do something with 'Bubbles' since we first started working together. Steph was up for a 'mohican' cut, while Kay Booth, the make-up artist was keen to practice her skills before the contest next week. As you can see it was avery worthwhile exercise. Great team ... great results as you can see!
'Bubbles' (Stolen Dreams) modelled by Stephanie Wood
make-up by Kay Booth, Photos: Mike Kells
Here are a few more of Mike Kells' excellent shots from the Austerity Collection shoot in Barrow-in-Furness. I will be putting togetger a separate page shortlly. Meanwhile I am currently updating my online shop BUTiQ with the new AUSTERITY and other designs so, if you are looking for something special for Christmas check out angymorton.co.uk or click BUTiQ above.
You will also find hats by designer Tracy Wells (Hatbox)
Stephanie Wood modelling ''No Futures''
Austerity Collection
Photo: Mike Kells
Bethany Gowan-Kevan modelling 'Black Magic''
RedDress:BlackDress Collection
Hat by Tracy Wells (HatBox); Photo: Mike Kells
MichelleSerrechia modelling 'Deco-Dance'
AusterityCollection
Photo: Mike Kells
Steph Wood modelling'Shockwave''
Bugs by Angy - Austerity Collection
Hat by Tracy Wells (HatBox); Photo: Mike Kells
The actual purpose of the shoot was to promote the Kells Modelling Competition 2011, as well as my new ready to wear collection ‘Austerity’. I don’t know why people are surprised to find that we have such fantastic talent nearby in Barrow-in-Furness; Mike Kells, the photographer, and Tracy Wells from Hatbox who designed the hats, for example. However, with Mike’s lens, my dresses, local, semi pro models and Tracy’s hats the results speak for themselves. Not bad, are they? Not bad at all.
Just back from a fantastic photo shoot following a long week of intensive work to finish the first samples for my new collection, Austerity. The shoot was staged in Barrow-in-Furness where I wanted to make use of red brick to create an almost 50s or 60s backdrop – an ‘Austerity’ setting to contrast what is essentially, a vibrant, cheerful and ‘feel good’ collection, and a breath of fresh air amidst the endless gloom and doom, austerity and recession headlines we cannot escape these days! We found some excellent locations including between the bizarre tenement blocks on Barrow Island which were apparently constructed to make ship workers from Glasgow feel at home!
MichelleSerrechia modelling 'Deco-Dance'
AusterityCollection
Photo: Mike Kells
I have to laugh at snobbery and stereotypes from time to time. Our recent photo shoots have proved that you really don’t have to be in London to find talent, or to shoot in some lavish or exotic location, to achieve excellent results. Perhaps what is most satisfying is when somebody turns round and says – I didn’t know we could achieve that here! To which, all I can say is ‘open your eyes. It also speaks volumes of local talent and especially the professionalism I have been using recently – all of them local lasses! However, I think the biggest compliment I received this week was from a London stylist who, on discovering that Cumbria wasn’t a suburb of London, exclaimed, “So that is why your designs are so different!”
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Top left: Bethany-Gowan-Kevan modelling 'Too Much Too Young'
AusterityCollectionl Hat by Tracy Wells (HatBox)
Top Right: Steph Wood modelling 'Humbug'
Stolen Dreams Collection
Photos: Mike Kells
I found this shoot especially tiring which was perhaps no surprise after burning so much midnight oil. I can usually get on with work even if I am tired but it I could hardly keep my eyes open…never mind eh, it happens. The girls were as good as gold and under a watchful professional eye they gave all that could be given in a day’s work. Thanks again guys :) oh and more pics on the way :)
Left: Michelle Serrechia modelling 'Tomorrow's another Day'
Austerity Collection
Photos: Mike Kells
ROYAL WEDDING WITH A DIFFERENCE - ORDINARY GIRL FASHION SHOOT
CLICK HERE for full report and photo gallery
PYROMANIA py-ro-ma-nia: - the exciting, new collection from Angy Morton
PYROMANIA is my latest concept collection, a mix of limited edition 'hand made' lines, which can be made to measure on order, and designs which will subsequently be manufactured in the United Kingdom as limited edition 'prêt-à-porter' lines. The 'hand-made' range will be available from my new online BUTiQ and exclusive runs of 'prêt-à-porter' designs from select boutiques or online.
See BUTiQ for further details and regular updates
18 September, 2010
You Tube Clip - 1
'Meltwater' and 'Harvest Moon'
by Angy Morton
18 September, 2010
You Tube Clip - 5
'Florence No.2 and 'Pahoehoe' (Pyromania Collection)'
by Angy Morton
18 September, 2010
You Tube Clip - 2
'Scirocco' and 'Aurora Borealis'
by Angy Morton
18 September, 2010
You Tube Clip - 6
'Fuji' (Pyromania Collection)
by Angy Morton
18 September, 2010
You Tube Clip - 5
'Ijen' (Pyromania Collection)
by Angy Morton
18 September, 2010
You Tube Clip - 6
'Firestorm' (Pyromania Collection)'
by Angy Morton
18 September, 2010
You Tube Clip - 8
'Pacaya' (Pyromania Collection)
by Angy Morton
18 September, 2010
You Tube Clip - 7
'Flashover' (Pyromania Collection)
by Angy Morton
18 September, 2010
You Tube Clip - 10
Sample Jacket created for West Ham United FC
by Angy Morton
18 September, 2010
You Tube Clip - 9
'Krakatau' (Pyromania Collection)
by Angy Morton
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2011 Designer Weddings - Not Responding - Austerity Fashion Shoot - Top Model UK 2012 - Fashion Weeks
AUGUST 2011 Day at the Races - RedDress:BlackDress Fashion Shoot - Rhythmatic - White Wedding
JULY 2011 Walk on the Beach - Bring on the Bugs - Valentino - Photo Shoot with Mike Kells - Whitehaven Festival
MAY-JUNE 2011 Whitehaven Festival - Catwalk on Water - Revolution - Lady Gaga - Labour behind the Label - Red Dress:Black Dress
MARCH-APRIL 2011 Ordinary Gir -Alternative Royal Wedding - Fern on the Wireless - Radio One Big Weekend - Brathay Workshop - Reflections
FEBRUARY 2011 Alternative Royal Wedding Dress - Giggle Alley - Save Lakeland's Forests - Spring Wedding Blog - Cartmel - Fashizblack
JANUARY 2011 Save Our Forests - Big Fat Gypsy Wedding - Sexism in Football - Going Bespoke: Pros & Cons
DECEMBER 2010 Snowbound - Message to Mike Ashley - Charity Event Pics - Red Dress Black Dress - Accessories
NOVEMBER 2010 Fault Magazine - Designer Wedding Dresses - Brathay Trust - Honister - Teenage Cancer Event - Burning Dress
OCTOBER 2010 BUTiQ - Atomic - Walk on the Wild Side - Sweet Charity: Toma Fund - AM Models Event - Rails to the Isles
SEPTEMBER 2010 London Fashion Week - Fashion for a Cause - Fashion Mavericks - Talenthouse - Ladies Fanwear - Zoe Gadd
AUGUST 2010 House of Fraser - BUTiQ: ready-to-wear with a difference - Ladies, Gents, Fashion Designers ..., Worst Nightmare
JUNE - JULY 2010 Fashion Mavericks - Pyromania - Catwalk Curves - Victorian Wedding Dress - Quest for an Orchid
MAY - JUNE 2010 London Calling - Little Black Dress - Dress Sizes - Holiday Hangover - Pam Carter - Over the Sea to Skye - Mackintosh
APRIL 2010 Spring is here - Howay the Lads! - Kirkby Stephen - April Fools - BUTiQ - Leeds Catwalk pics
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2010 Stadium of Light - Leeds United Wedding Show - Spring - LLFW Catwalk Show
JANUARY 2010 Life is a Roller Coaster / Alexander McQueen - Tyne Tees TV Interview - LFW - New Year 2010
DECEMBER 2009 White Christmas - Liverpool Debacle - Stolen Dreams Facts - Haverthwaite - Miss Sunderland
NOVEMBER 2009 Lavish & Luxe - The Big Flood - Stolen Dreams - Censored Dreams
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2009 Stolen Dreams - Gambling Man - Laughing Stock - Justice - Broken Promises
AUGUST 2009 Lavish & Luxe - Weddings - Chaos - Photo Shoot at St. James' Park - Harvest Time
JUNE - JULY 2009 Sir Bobby Robson RIP - Mannekins - Liverpool - Georgian Splendour - Price of Fame - Detox
MAY - JUNE 2009 (Toon in Tatters - Fashion Communism - Ele Horsleys - Kittiwakes - Stolen Dreams - Bluebells
MARCH - APRIL 2009 Made in England - Stolen Dreams - Easter Sunshine - Victoriana - Alan Shearer - Funland
FEBRUARY - MARCH 2009 (Favourite View - Punk Revival - Fast Fashion v. Recycled Fashion
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2009 (In Search of Winter - A Favourite Place - Catwalk Videos - Winter Chill
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2008 (ROCS - Florence No2. - Winter-Mere
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2008 (Cumbria Life - Glitz & Glamour Haggerston Craft Show
OCTOBER 2008 (Woman Event - Catwalk Photos - Radio Cumbria - Brochure Download
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2008 (Newcastle United Wedding Dress - Wedding Shows
AUGUST - SEPT. 2008 (Fashion Designers - Spectrum Collection - Sara Gadd
JUNE - JULY 2008 (Haute Couture - Vivienne Westwood - Dorset Buttons - Magna Carta
FEBRUARY - MAY 2008 (Lake District Inspirations - Long Blondes - Wedding Show
We are on
Angy's Blog is written by Angela Morton, Fashion Designer & Dressmaker
Photographs copyright of Mike and Angy Morton
Copyright Romantique Couture 2012
Photographs copyright of Mike and Angy Morton
Copyright Romantique Couture 2012