Currently in my third year of architecture school, at this stage, you would expect I would be content and certain in what I am doing and where I intend on heading once school is done and dusted. Nope. Definitely no.
While architecture remains a passion and a point of interest since as long as I can remember, the presence of a gaping hole in my satisfaction has been eating at me.
Take it back to before I was even aware of what architecture is, and I find my infatuation with fashion. Dressing and styling dolls, choosing dresses with too much frill and too much tulle (as much as a meringue as it makes me, but hey which girl didn't want that?) and my many attempts (although failed), at making my own clothes.
Perhaps it was this reason that I didn't think much of pursuing fashion. Countless times I have found myself saying 'I don't know how to sew' when faced with the question of my choice in degree, but even I was not convinced by my answer. Over the years, I became set on finishing architecture school and becoming an architect. I kept pushing fashion out of the way in fear of what it meant to the goals I had set. But yet, instead of picking up the architecture magazines on the news stands like the rest of my colleagues, I find myself time and time again with Harper's Bazaar and the like in my hands. Heck, as if my lifelong admiration of wedding dresses wasn't a dead giveaway! Don't get me wrong though, if the tables were turned and I was in fashion without architecture, I know I would feel this same dissatisfaction. I can't describe the feeling I get in the presence of admirable architecture, such joy and exhilaration, and yet I get the same feeling watching ensembles come down the runway, or coming across an impeccably styled editorial spread, and for this reason I know I need both.
This is where Haddon comes in. Haddon will be my platform to dabble into both worlds, combining both my interests together. Fashion and architecture may seem to be worlds apart, but you always find fashion critics describing a certain collection by a certain designer as 'architectural'. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, certain architecture of a certain period following certain 'trends'. Perhaps their notions and what they entail aren't so disparate after all.
So here is to a new beginning. Haddon.
