GRANDI'S ESSENTIAL COLOURS
Darling's, I can certainly say, I would not be the person I am today without crayola crayons. I was an isolated little gay boy who escaped through drawing princess dresses, and movies. Moreover, it was my extra large box of crayola crayons that helped me escape into a safe world of dresses and colour. Therefore, my heart skipped a beat when I read about Grandi's Essential Colour.
WHO IS GRANDY CHU
The following is copied from Vancouver Fashion Week website, with their permission.
A celebrated humanist once put the ratio of passion-to-reason bestowed in man at 24-to-1. After graduating from business school, Grandy found this to be approximately the ratio of time she spent designing and making dresses, versus that spent searching for what her mother referred to as gainful employment.
After 4 years in the financial and consulting sectors, she realized that the most gainful part of her employment was saying farewell to the regimented 8-hour work day. For the next 2 years, she devoted her time to building on her passion of dressmaking and the art of traditional tailoring.
Grandy discovered that few other professions so beautifully combine her artistic and the analytical expertise.
In 2013, Grandy started making one dress a week, and launched ADressAWeek.com to blog about her journey. From there, her style and philosophy as a designer emerged, with special emphasis the beauty of timeless elegance, the bespoke tradition, and quality craftsmanship. All couture garments are locally hand-made, and tailored to the specific measurements and body type of each client.
Trained from a young age as a classical pianist, Grandy continues to be an avid musician, regularly performing and teaching music lessons.
And perhaps it is the early exposure to art and music history that leads her to draw much of her creative inspiration from the stories and history of great art.
She made her debut with Vancouver Fashion Week, with her autumn-winter collection of 2014.
Moreover, I reprinted this biography, because it tells Grandy's story better than I could. What I find so exciting was her dedication to making one dress a week, with this sort of drive and talent success is inevitable.
