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#lullyslist | #lullyteachesart

Happy Teacher's Day to fellow educators out there! For the first time today, pre-school teachers get a day off too!

It's been almost 8 years teaching art freelance. Through these years I had the opportunity to share my knowledge and make art with people of all ages- in studios, classrooms and house calls too. It can get mentally exhausting doing lesson plans, teaching itself. Nonetheless I have no regrets. Being a creative person myself, making art with children especially has broaden my perspective. I am intrigued at how effortless and fearless they can be. A few years ago I went through a creative rut. I just couldn't paint at all. I didn't know what to paint. That was quite worrying for a practising artist. Thankfully I got over it. It's these kids who inspired me to pick up my brush again. There's just something about their quirks and charming character that is portrayed in their art- the colours they chose, their brush strokes and attention to details. Here's a selection of artworks done by my students.

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-Lully

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Never lose touch with your inner artist. For you experience more joy and creativity, and reclaim your innate love of art and play. Like how children don't care about quality, it is all pure joy. They love the colors, they love to create, they love to revisit and celebrate what they have created. They see only art, beauty, accomplishment. That's exactly what I did. I painted it. I even framed it. What are you going to create? 📷: @lullyselb #lsexperience #lullyselb #lullyselbsquad

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Met new friends during the #LSexperience workshop. #lullyselb #lullyselbsquad

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My Singapura. 🇸🇬♥️🌆 #lsexperience #lullyselb

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Spending 2-hrs of my Saturday morning with these two lovelies for the #lsexperience was therapeutic. #lullyselb #lullyselbsquad

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#selbsseries | Founders Birthday Month Special

Our birthday month is coming to an end so in today's Selb's Series, I'm gonna be sharing some of my super simple hijab tutorial suitable for these nude shawls. For those of you who wear our shawls, you know that there are many ways to wear it because the print is designed for you to create your own style!

Taupe Graphic Shawl 

Style 1: Prints around your face - Fun look 

Style 2: Solid around your face - Clean cut

Nude Coral Shawl

Style 1: Nude around your face - All the way Nude!

Style 2: Black and white prints around your face - Bold, monochrome look

These fresh nudes are gonna stay throughout this season and even next year. From make up inspiration to lifestyle,  we're spotting these neutral tones everywhere so rest assured, you're in trend with these shawls. We're down to the last few days for you to pre-order your favorite Nude Shawl, and its only for our Prints Collector Subscribers. Wanna be part if it?  Hit the link here. And to all our loyal #lullyselbsquad who have been our subscribers, we'll be emailing you over the weekends to confirm your chosen Nude Shawl. Delivery will be in 3rd week of August.

Till then,

Selb

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#lullyslist | A chance to see how our Nautical Street prints were chosen

We're launching the full Nautical Street campaign together with a spanking new website early next week! As most of you would have already know, it took awhile to finase the prints for this collection. Now that everything is ready, let's take a look at some sketches, prints that didn't make it and the final prints used for Nautical Street!

The first 3 are prints that didn't make the cut. We thought a more softer blue could work.

These 2 are the final prints used! Can't beat Navy Blue and Red for Nautical vibes.

Red Navy Shawl

Black Nautical Shawl

We experimented with variations of how they stripes should go. Designing on our own means the options are endless and these are some of our sketches and ideas.

This thin lines wasn't bold enough.

We were so happy with this print! FYI, this is the full print used for our shirt!

And this one for the pants...

We worked really hard especially for this campaign as Nautical theme is a very classic one indeed. It's been around for long and it took us awhile to come out with a fresh take on it. We designed these specially for our LullySelbSquad yearning for a new print that is bold, unique and chic.

-Lully

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#Selbseries | How nautical theme has evolved

Before we even started on producing designs for nautical theme collection, we did some research and got even more inspired to work on this. So here's a little throwback on how nautical theme became popularised.

Did you know....

1) It was Queen Victoria who inspired the nautical trend in the 18th century. She had a child’s sailor uniform made on board the royal yacht for her son Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. People were very influenced back then, so everyone at the countryside wanted their child to dress in a sailor uniform.

2) From childrens' wear, the trend got picked up by womens' fashion. Sailor-inspired swimwear was seen in the late 18th century.

3) In 1917,  Coco Chanel opened her shop in the resort town of  Deauville on the coast of France where she made the nautical look go viral. Inspired by the classicly simple and comfortable shirts worn by the local fishermen and sailors, Coco Chanel’s  designs, with their nautical touches and jersey fabrics, revolutionized the way women dressed. Here, style-icon Audrey Hepburn seen in the classic striped tee.

4) 1960s brought nautical with a twist of Mod. I love this look, its really cute!

5) Fast forward to today, many designers made nautical so modern and chic. Silhouettes kept simple but playful lines and stripes! Major love, from Marc Jacobs, to Alaxender Mcqueen!

For our SS17 Nautical Street, we decided to forgo the cliche anchor and ships prints, sailor kinda look. We played with stripes, added a tinch of red and blue and made it ours. Its been a while since we created a strong, vibrant print like this. We hope these prints will add some variation to your wardrobe, and most importantly fun and colours to your #ootds! Now lets take a moment to thank Coco Chanel for making a fabulous kick start to stripes!

More style tips on next selbsseries, while I experiment on these new prints.

Cheers,

Selb