Process « goyesframe

Process « goyesframe.

Learn new pattern cutting techniques

Learning how to pattern cut is a complex process that most young fashion designers find quite difficult to master.  It is essentially about solving problems creatively but can only work well when you understand the governing principles.  In our class today, we explore alternative methods of creative pattern cutting – to allow students the chance to explore without the fear of making mistakes by working directly unto the stand.

We ended the day with some excellent results!

Please do share your thoughts with us,we appreciate hearing your comments on our work.

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How to Measure the body for pattern making

In today’s session students were taught how to accurately measure the body for block pattern making.  Although the focus of our  session was toward making the trouser block, below are two video links providing instructions for both the trouser and also the bodice.

Take some time to watch the second video to help you become familiar with the terminology in preparation for our next session.

via How to Measure For Bodice Block Pattern Making Free Sample – YouTube.

Williams College Final Fashion Collection February 2012 on Vimeo

The fashion students at Williams College Holborn have grown in confidence and technical skills since the start of their fashion design studies.  As you can see from their collections, the level and quality of their pattern cutting and sewing skills has grown significantly  during the two years they have been with us, which we hope will encourage others who are considering developing skills in this field.

Please do take the time to visit the individual blogs of the student to see their work in progress.

Williams College Final Fashion Collection February 2012 produced by Murat Can Kuscu on Vimeo.

via Williams College Final Fashion Collection February 2012 on Vimeo.

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People that inspire us….

As a class we are one with a common goal but we all take our inspiration from different sources.  I am always inspired by pioneering women who, despite inequalities, race issues and political agendas forged ahead with their dreams.

Share your story with us this week by letting us know how you were inspired to be where you are today

At times in history when they were not expected to excel but to know their place in society, these African-American women became the first to achieve a variety of things. There was the woman who in 1773 published a book and another who ran a bank way back in 1899. Plenty more in the article – but let’s take a look here at Bessie Coleman.

Not the first Queen Bess in history, certainly, but the first woman so nicknamed to become an airline pilot.  Bessie Coleman (pictured above in her flying helmet) was working as a manicurist in a barber shop she was inspired by stories of pilots returned from the First World War to seek a career in aviation herself.  She took French lessons in Chicago and in 1920 she found herself training in France (the French were a little more liberated in terms of gender and colour than the US at that time).

The year later she achieved her pilot’s license. In fact she was the first American of any race or gender to acquire an International Pilot’s License.  At the end of 1921 when she returned to the States she became a media star as an exhibition pilot. She became so popular that she was even offered a role in a movie, but walked off the set when she realized that she was expected to fit in with the common racial stereotypes of the day.  On a routine flight on April 30 1926 her plane failed to come out of a practice nose dive and she was thrown over five hundred feet to her death.

Fashion and Textile Museum

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In addition to the exhibition, the gallery are holding a series of lectures called ‘The chronology of Fashion’.  This is a great opportunity to develop further your knowledge on the history of western and UK fashion. For further info visit … Continue reading →