tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28808926675573956202024-02-07T15:01:31.452-08:00Sewitsa FashionistaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880892667557395620.post-23444873968059790452013-06-23T03:11:00.001-07:002013-06-23T03:11:53.376-07:00If you're just finishing your first year studying fashion, or even if you are thinking about studying at University, how do designers decide if they will develop their designs by the traditional method (flat) or by working on the stand? (known also as draping)<br />
Here's a great piece by The Cutting Class which gives you a little more insight..........<a href="http://thecuttingclass.com/post/4083606181/drape-at-lanvin" target="_blank">http://thecuttingclass.com/post/4083606181/drape-at-lanvin</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880892667557395620.post-5867598778651103432012-08-10T09:53:00.001-07:002012-08-10T10:39:33.180-07:00<a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/collections/ci/gallery-views-impossible-conversations">- Gallery Views of Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880892667557395620.post-61362417383563510892012-08-01T02:02:00.000-07:002012-08-05T13:36:28.394-07:00So, I hope you have everything ready?<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Welcome to my blog which I hope is going to be of help, and interest, to all you </span><a href="http://www.the-fashioninstitute.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Fashion Students</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"> or budding Fashion Designers out there!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">I have spent many years working in the fashion Industry, and although it might seem strange, I really didn't appreciate how much knowledge I had acquired along the way until I came in to contact with those who had <i>supposedly</i> been trained, or were in the process of being educated in these <span lang="EN-US">'Fashiony</span>' ways. So many 'Fashion courses' don't offer what they <i>say</i> they do, leaving students woefully unprepared to compete in the market place and the worst thing is that they are unaware of this themselves! <span lang="EN-US">The number of direct teaching hours for many also appears to be on the decline, which really doesn't work for such a 'hands on discipline' as Fashion.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So.....or should I say ‘sew’!? I hope to even a few things out here with some 'freebies' for all those interested in increasing your knowledge of the Fashion Industry, Sewing and Pattern construction, whether you be at </span><a href="http://www.the-fashioninstitute.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">school, college</span></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, or simply at </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FashionWorkshopSpain" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">home </span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">with your passion ......<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 14.7pt;">Keep tuned and in the next couple of weeks we'll be learning all about textile printing....a subject close to my heart :).......and how to develop your own, repeating design.</span></div>
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