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Dear Friends, I’ve been talking about “draping” the pattern for my Vionnet-inspired cocktail dress. But what does that exactly mean? I have found these two videos by couture designer Susan Elias that shows the basic process of draping the front bodice and she demonstrates how darts can be rotated to the neckline in the second . . . → Read More: Theatrical Thursday: Basic Introduction to Draping a Pattern  Comments are closed  Design School, How to Videos, Projects  Madeleine Vionnet Inspired Cocktail Dress, Patternmaking
Dear Friends, In my last post, I mentioned that I am learning how to make a corselette. In high end and couture gowns, the undergarment is built into the piece to ensure that the right look and fit is obtained. It is also prevents the wearer from having to keep tugging at the top of . . . → Read More: Making the Corselette Pattern One comment - (Comments are closed) Design School, Projects Corselette pattern making, Madeleine Vionnet Inspired Cocktail Dress
"Madeleine Vionnet: Evening gown (C.I.52.24.2a,b)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/C.I.52.24.2a,b (October 2006) Source: Madeleine Vionnet: Evening gown (C.I.52.24.2a,b) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art As I mentioned the other day, I am taking a one-credit/unit . . . → Read More: Knocking Off Madeleine Vionnet 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Design School, Projects Madeleine Vionnet Inspired Cocktail Dress
Dear Friends, I am taking the last course I need for my custom clothing certificate: a 1-credit/unit couture sewing class. It meets for two hours once a week and the time just flies by! Because it is a one credit class, most of our sewing is just making a sample instead of using the technique . . . → Read More: Couture Sewing Samples: French Seam and Underlined Hong Kong Finish Buying all of the sewing tools we need to construct quality garments can quickly become expensive. For my advanced sewing/tailoring class, I discovered I was woefully deficient in the tool department and needed to buy a seam roll, tailor’s ham, and a clapper/point presser, among other things. Our class was able to negotiate a discount . . . → Read More: Clap On, Clap Off…The Point Presser! I haven’t posted very often in the past month but I’ve taken lots of photos fully expecting to post about my adventures. So, today I thought I’d share some of the photos with you… The advantage of working in a fashion design program in Los Angeles is that we can take the students on a . . . → Read More: Found In My Camera Before Mrs. Poteet set us free to run down to the garment district to buy our fabric and supplies, she told us that we need to preshrink the wool, rayon lining, interfacing, edge tape, weft, etc. Confession: I knew I needed to pretreat fabrics I intended to wash at home but I never realized that . . . → Read More: Tailoring Homework: Preshrink the Fabrics This is called a "pattern card." It has a line drawing of the garment and lists all of the pattern pieces by number and how many pieces should be cut from the fabric, lining, interfacing, etc. As you can see from the scratch-outs, I should have used a pencil to write down the information! . . . → Read More: Look What Came Home With Me Yesterday Today we will finish up sleeve shapes. There is only so much you can say so I will only be illustrating the different types of sleeve shapes (click on images to be taken to the websites): Dropped Shoulder Dropped Shoulder–Image Courtesy of Ageless Patterns
Peasant . . . → Read More: Fashion Dictionary: Sleeve Shapes When people hear that I have been taking fashion design courses, they often ask if I’m going to go on Project Runway. My answer is immediate: Ummmm, no. It’s hard enough doing all of that stuff under a deadline for a course, I can’t imagine what it would be like to try to complete an . . . → Read More: Project Run-Clothes-For-The Rest-Of Us |
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