January 18, 2010
The process behind a fashion creation

I’m sharing with you inspiring and useful video on how to create your favorites clothes. Fashion designer and illustrator Lovisa Burfitt from Paris, shares the process behind her fashion creations.

The following video should be a part of a wonderfully affordable way to learn how to make clothes.

For more details about Lovisa Burfitt’s work you can read an interesting interview with her over here.

by Iulia Stanescu

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December 21, 2009
Top 10 Qualities of a Great Fashion Designer

The fashion industry is exploding and everyone, it seems, is vying for a part in the action. To get ahead in the business and sit with the ranks of Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, you as an aspiring designer should have some of the same qualities as the world’s top designers. Here are some of the qualities you’ll need to succeed as a designer:

  1. Strong Business Sense
    A great fashion designer has excellent business skills. You understand budgets, marketing, and sales concepts that are vital to getting designs produced and sold.
  2. Good Communication
    A number of people are involved in the creation of a garment, and as designer, you must be able to effectively communicate to everyone involved what he or she expects.
  3. Sense of Competition
    You continually strive to do better than your peers to come up with quality innovative designs quickly.
  4. Highly Creative
    You have a great sense of style and are constantly coming up with new ideas for fashions.
  5. Strong Drawing Skills
    Excellent drawing skills mean you can easily sketch your ideas onto paper to start the production process.
  6. Good Eye for Materials
    You have an eye for the materials of a garment, as well as the elements that make it unique, such as color and fabric.
  7. Strong Sewing Skills
    You can construct the garments you design. You understand what materials work best in the designs you are developing.
  8. Team Player
    Great fashion designers work well as part of a team. Designing a garment for production involves the work of many, from pattern making to sewing to shipping. As designer, you must be able to work well with all involved.
  9. Knowledgeable of Current Fashion Trends
    You follows trends and have a good eye for anticipating what your audience will respond to next.
  10. Strong Visualization Abilities
    Good fashion designers can visualize a garment before ever putting an idea on paper. You can see the finished product well before production and can put your ideas into words and onto paper so others can grasp the idea as well.

Source: Fashion Schools

by Iulia Stanescu

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October 31, 2009
How start and run your own fashion business

My book recommendation for the next week is for those who dream to start and run their own fashion business.

If you’re thinking about getting into the world of fashion design, “The Fashion Designer Survival Guide” is the book that you should read before diving head first into a pool with little water. It’s an in depth look into a very popular career choice, but it definitely teaches you the do’s and dont’s when you enter this industry.

The author, an industry authority and consultant to hundreds of designers, gives readers behind-the-scenes advice and essential business information on creating and sustaining a successful career as an independent designer.

Here is the table of contents:

This book is available  on Amazon.

What about you, my friends, what book are you reading to develop you business plan?

By Iulia Stanescu

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October 24, 2009
A book a week

This is the book I am reading these days …

… and I love it! It is my guide in fashion drawing.

“Contemporary fashion illustration Techniques” is a very useful book both for future fashion designers and for future fashion illustrators.

I recommend it to you because inside it you’ll find explanations and techniques of drawing, so that you will be able to master the basics of fashion design drawing -this includes technical drawing as well as color illustrations. It’s an amazing book because it also helps you to find your personal style and feel it comfortable with.

Inside this book you’ll find:

1. The Basics of Fashion Design Drawing

- Body Proportion

- Drawing the Head

- Drawing Arms and Legs

- Poses

2. Dressing Techniques

3. Coloring Technique

- Coloring

- Patterns

- Materials

- Drawings of various Materials

- Processing by computer

4. Exercise by garment Item

- Technical Drawing

- Technical Drawing Steps

- Technical Drawings by computer

- Drawings of various Items

You can find this book on Amazon. For romanians you can buy it faster from Carturesti.

What about you, my friends, what book are you reading this week?

By Iulia Stanescu

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October 18, 2009
Making of a fashion pictorial

Have you ever wondered how a Pictorial/Editorial is being made? I suppose if you’re in the fashion industry it is not an unsolvable puzzle for you.
For those of you for whom Fashion is a Passion it will reveal some secrets in the process.

This video brings us back to August’s hot days, to a beautiful location called Gradina Icoanei, in Bucharest. I hope you’ll feel the warmth of it :-)

Guest post by Ludmila Corlateanu

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