November 2011
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Romanian Contemporary Emerging Fashion Design
As in almost every aspect, when talking about independent fashion design, Romania is an emerging market as well. And it’s a place where one can see some interesting developments lately.
Here are some beautiful presentations of some of them:
InSide by Iris Serban (SS 2012)
Details IN the fabric by Sandra Chira (SS 2012)
ARROW by Ioana Ciolacu (SS 2012)
June 2011
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Interview with Katie Evans: designer at Kate Spade...
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Pinterest interviews are back! I’m happy to introduce Katie Evans. Katie is a designer at Kate Spade, designs her own line of stationary, and has lots of popular pinboards. You can check out her beautiful work on her website: http://hellohellodesign.com/
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Karl Lagerfeld as we don't know him
I’ve been always inspired and intrigued by Karl Lagerfeld and of course by his work. Both of them appear to be timeless.
Today (even if it appeared in 2007) I watched “Lagerfeld Confidential”, the documentary featuring some episodes of the famous designer’s life, mostly of his professional one. And before driving to the conclusions, I have to say I have always thought...
May 2011
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Central Themes in Alexander McQueen's Work
McQueen’s fashion often illustrated exaggerated feminine silhouettes of the 1860s, 1880s, 1890s and 1950s, but always reinterpreted and evolved. That is, at a very first sight, these silhouettes come from the future, not from the past.
Ensemble It’s a Jungle Outhere A/W 1997-1998
“Recurring themes in McQueen’s work that are explored begin with “The Savage...
April 2011
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Marocco as Inspiration in Yves Saint Laurent's...
Yves Saint Laurent had always claimed that Marocco influenced his creations: “When I discovered Marrakech, it was an extraordinary shock. The city taught me color. “
And here’s what Marocco created in his heart, and here’s what his hands and mind have built.
January 2011
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October 2010
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A message about some, maybe most of you
Why not a message for all of you? Because this time, it’s about my dear women.
Considering you are on a fashion learning platform, I guess you should get this message from a double perspective. First, as aspiring or time being designers and secondly as human beings.
I am going to talk in this post about TACTILE, an awesome project by the Romanian designer, Adrian Oianu.
TACTILE is a...
September 2010
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You can leave your hat on...
Today Fashionurbia is hosting an amazing guest post by architect and industrial designer, Gokalp Ekremoglu. So get prepared to indulge yourself with some knowledge you wouldn’t normally get only by looking at a final product.
Born in Ankara Turkey, Gokalp studied architecture at YTU Istanbul and Industrial design at MU Fine Arts Istanbul. He worked both at design - project studios and...
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Pierre Cardin. In his fashion lives the future
“My only influence has come from space,” declares Pierre Cardin. And this is obvious, I would say, if looking at his fashion and industrial designs.
Evening gown with embedded hoops.
Strapless gown in bicolor velvet, 1994
Strapless dress in gazar
Sunglasses
Winter collection 1966
Pearls neckless
And here are some of his beautiful industrial designs:
Junior...
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August 2010
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Claudia Schiffer by Karl: expressing sexuality...
As a clothes creator, a designer is a person who makes men’s and women’s lives more beautiful and pleasant. As sexuality is a basic, innate instinct, it is always there, no matter what we do. In the same time, if perceived wrong, it can harm us and people around us. And, if you ask me, there’s also a bit of psychology in the fashion creative process. Why? Because people choose...
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How to start a collection
A successful, that is a financially viable collection requires a great amount of research, investigation and planning. Successful designers, manufacturers and retailers have a clear understanding of their customer and their needs, as well as understanding their position relative to their competition.
Besides creating the concept of a collection and manufacturing it, one have to consider a...
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How to manipulate various colors and texture...
One day, I have discovered a pleasant surprise on the Fashionurbia’s Facebook page: a tutorial on how to manipulate various colors and texture effects on your fashion illustrations using Photoshop. It was posted by Chetna Shetty, fashion designer and illustrator from Mumbai, India.
As I found it very useful, I decided to share here the link to the post on her blog, where she describes, step...
July 2010
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Paris Shanghai making of, or the diary of the...
What will follow is magic. A collection of 12 videos. The making of the Chanel Paris Shanghai 2009/2010 collection. For me watching them was like sneaking in Karl Lagerfeld’s day to day life.
You’ll see a little bit of the entire process of making a fashion collection at Chanel: the atelier, the team, the drawing, the pattern making, the embroidery, the accessorizing, the inspiration...
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Design Schools: Parsons the New School for Design
Located in New York City’s Greenwich Village, many of Parsons alumni have ascended to the top of the industry’s high-fashion houses. Parsons boasts 26 degrees among its five thematic schools, but the one which made the school a world renowned is the department of fashion design.
It as founded in 1906 and it was the first-ever fashion design program in USA. Among its alumni are Tom...
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New and exciting - the fashion. Old and trashy -...
…I mean the setting of a fashion photo shoot.
I’ve been often thinking about that perfect setting, that would perfectly emphasize on the garment and silhouette showcased and that would still stay complex enough, when imagining fashion photo shoots. An idea that would come again and again in my mind included a decor of old, ugly and trashy objects, which put together would form a...
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How to sell online
No matter if you dream of being a designer, you are an emerging designer, or you have already quite an experience in the field, I’m sure you have thought at least once about whether to sell online your products and how to do it.
Here’s an interesting interview with Ray Cao, CEO of Loosebutton.com, on how to sell online fashion items.
For more useful videos concerning fashion...
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Designers profile: Holly Fulton
Holly Fulton is a quickly-rising London fashion designer, who graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA (Hons) in fashion in 1999 and debuted at London Fashion Week her A/W 2009 collection.
According to her words, she creates pieces that she ”would want to wear or think is right at the time” and she finds inspiration in, “art deco; pop intense qualities,...
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Show of the 1959 Chanel collection
A little bit of inspiration from history:
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Designers at work: Yves Saint Laurent's fashion...
“Ballet Russes”, Fall/Winter 1976-1977
In the documentary Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times, the legendary designer was revealing these facts about the way he creates through drawing: “When I pick up a pencil I don’t know what I will draw. Nothing is planned. It’s the miracle of the moment. I start with a woman’s face, and suddenly the dress follows, or...
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Lagerfeld Confidenciel
This is how Rodolphe Marconi called his film featuring Karl Lagerfeld. Here’s a short preview… and I can’t wait to buy it and see it.
« This film is something not real : It’s something not real about reality. And I think Rodolphe got it in a very modern pointing way. » Karl Lagerfeld
Synopsis:
Fascinated by the “man behind the sunglasses”, Rodolphe Marconi...
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Fashion designers in Disney, by Ulrich Schroder
You know I love so much the topic of alternative promoting of fashion.
Now, here’s what I’ve discovered: in Elle Spain April issue, Ulrich Schroder transported some of the top world designers into the Disney world. Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Marc Jacobs, John Paul Gaultier, Dolce & Gabbana and Donnatella Versace, just to list a few, have been illustrated as everybody’s...
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Shoe Design for Beginners
Is the name of a short course, happening in London, at Central Saint Martins Collage of Art and Design, between the 6th and the 10th of September, 2010. Its prices is £375.
The tutor of the course is Darla-Jane Gilroy, graduate of St Martin’s School of Art and freelance fashion and footwear designer.
Shoes designed by Terhi Pölkki
This is how CSM presents this shoe design short...
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What is a collection?
“All creation is just recreation - a new way of seeing the same things and expressing them differently.” Yves Saint Laurent
A collection is a set of garments and accessories, designed and produced for sale to retailers or to direct customers, for a season or a particular occasion, and presented in a variety of forms, some of them being: catwalk shows, lookbooks, websites.
Chanel,...
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Making of Louis Vuitton Fall / Winter 2010
As a creator and grower of a fashion brand, that is, as a designer, one must have a significant input not only while the collection is made, but also when the “new-born” is out to the public.
A fashion designer is at heart of the concept and execution of all the promotions the brand or line that he directs, undertakes.
Watch and get inspired by the making of Louis Vuitton Fall /...
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Almost all fashion starts on paper...
“Almost all fashion starts on paper … where the ideas begin. This is the part I enjoy most about fashion, because you really can create anything you can imagine (even if it can’t actually be made). So I joined the idea of ‘Paper’ and ‘Fashion’ in creating the name,” explains Kathryn Elyse, the creator behind Paperfashion.
Read here the rest of an amazing and useful interview she made...
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And where do the ideas come from in the first...
“Everywhere. Everywhere and anywhere. They come from other people, they come from me, they come from people I see on the streets. Sometimes they come from a movie I saw the night before, and sometimes it is as simple as wanting a big, soft sweater because I’m cold that day.”
Answers Marc Jacobs.
Marc Jacobs for the Louis Vuitton lookbook
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Choosing a design school →
For the hopeful design student, selecting the right program is no easy task. There are many factors that will guide your choice of school, and not all of them are as obvious as the school’s location, size and cost. In fact, many of the most crucial traits of a design program are things that won’t show up in the guidebook at all: the department’s focus, its record on placing...
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Portfolio Preparation Tips and Suggestions →
These days you need to go beyond the ordinary to make your portfolio stand out. Click the title to find an overview of what to do and how to excel.
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Behind the curtains: how and what they create at...
The Sruli Recht studio is a small cross-discipline practice caught somewhere between product design, tailoring and shoe making. Based in Reykjavík, the studio produces one “non-product” every month from umbrellas to bulletproof scarves, tables, to belts and boots, and incorporating such materials as concrete, diamonds, skin and wool. An accessories and clothing collection is to be released...
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Presentation boards - before and after
Usually, before and afters refer to presenting how a subject looks before and after a certain process. In this post the meaning of these words is slightly different.
I will bring you an example of how the same presentation board can serve as a means of building, sketching, drawing, illustrating a fashion concept before it is produced, and presenting it, advertising it to the public after the...
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Alternative ways of promoting your fashion -...
80’s Purple is an online shop established in 2005 in Huntington Beach, California, who gained recognition as a premier online fashion boutique.
Besides making pictorials in which they suggest how to wear stylish outfits using the pieces they are selling in the shop, they promote themselves via pictures in motion. I call them videotorials.
Why make videotorials in order to promote your...
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Frances Liu on how is like to study at Central...
Frances Liu is a fashion design BA graduate at Central Saint Martins Collage of Art and Design. Since I’m so in love with retro costumes as sources of inspiration for modern fashion, when I stumbled upon her final collection at CSM BA show, I had to contact Frances, in order for her to give us more details about it and to share with us about how is it like to be a student at Central Saint...
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Tribaspace.com - the calendar of international...
No matter if you are a fashion aficionado or a fashion creative, you need to be on Tribaspace.com. I stumbled upon it clicking on a Google ad served on Fashionurbia and I discovered a whole new, juicy world of fashion events. I was so excited that I had to share it with you.
What you can do on Tribaspace in its team’s words:
1. Gain exposure and make new connections - you can freely...
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June 2010
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Innovative fashion concepts: the post-customizable...
“The desire to develop innovative, unique shoes, or, in other words, to seek the possibility of “post-costumization” of the shoes, is what motivated the Italian designer, Gaetano Pesce, in his collaboration with the Brazilian plastic footwear brand Melissa. Although Pesce’s creations are sold as ankle boots, wearers are encouraged to take scissors to the plastic circles...
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