Liven up 2019 With Pantone Color of the Year Living Coral — The Hudsucker

Get ready for this year’s spring season with fresh colors!

We’ve done, it folks! January is almost over, which means that we’ve reached the point where our resolutions are either well on their way to good habits or we’ve given up entirely and can now focus on something a lot more fun: looking ahead to spring and all the fun colors that season comes with. […]

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January 30, 2019 0

Holbein’s extraordinary ‘Ambassadors — Helping talent get exposed

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January 25, 2019 0

The Art of Blogging: On Sale! — The Art of Blogging — www.naijatins.com

It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Sometimes even downright discouraging. You have so many ideas you want to share with the world. So many things you want to say. So much you want to try. But your job is demanding. You’re constantly juggling family schedules and obligations. You’re always heading off annoying interruptions. You wonder if you’ll […]

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January 22, 2019 0

Who, What, When, Where and Why Tech Pack — 383 Degrees

If you’re a fashion designer actively working in ready-to-wear, you are probably very familiar with tech packs. And if you aspire to work in fashion or start your own line, you’ll need to become familiar with them. So in today’s blog post, we’ll discuss the 5 “W’s” of tech packs: what it is, who creates […]

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January 21, 2019 0

Costume finishing

The skirt

The skirt is a wrap around skirt of light wool. I sewed a yoke as I like to combine it with the corsett and hope it suits well. The closure is a button on each side. On one side you can see a removable bag. I have described it in one of the earlier posts.

I am not 100 per cent happy with the skirt, it needed more fabric than I was expecting

wrap around skirt

so I had to find a compromise with the garment that I wanted to handcraft. The pattern is slightly asymetric it looks better when taken on.

skirt bag on skirt

The corsett,

corsett

again a quite simple procedure if you have already managed to draw a basic top pattern. I merely took the lower part of the top and mirrored it downwards. The adjustments were tiny steps of changing the darts until they fitted. The eyelet for the closure were sewed by hand.

January 18, 2019 0

Fabric in Fashion Exhibition

Fabric In Fashion
Fashion & Textile History Gallery
December 4, 2018 – May 4, 2019

Fabric In Fashion explores the role played by textiles in forming the silhouette in Western fashion over the last 250 years. The examination of textiles is often separated from that of the fashionable silhouette, yet historically, textiles were as important as the cut of clothing in keeping up with current fashion. This exhibition delves into the mechanics of textiles, looking at how fibers and weaves build the materiality of fashion. It will also explore the cultural influence of fabric. The Western world’s demand for fashionable textiles of silk, cotton, wool, and synthetics has had enormous repercussions across the globe.

Fabric In Fashion highlights both clothing and flat textiles from the museum’s permanent collection, examining how the physical properties of specific fabrics determine the way a piece of clothing interacts with the body, as well as how the design and cultural associations of textiles reveal the social motivations that drive fashion forward. The exhibition is organized by Elizabeth Way, assistant curator of costume.

January 15, 2019 0

Costume the next

wrap around skirt pattern

Fresh back from the winter holiday the project continues. I have collected some new impressions regarding handcrafting and creativity and hope it will find its place here in this blog.

The skirt chosen will be a wrap around skirt with a yoke the material made of two different fabrics. Aditionally a bag will be attachable and removable just as needed. Here you can see the pattern of the skirt. I still have to make out some details before the starting.

The bag however has been realized. skirt bag It is of the same material as the jacket. The suspension is of leather material and the clousure is a pressure button.