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How can I be a fashion designer?

January 6th, 2013 2 comments

I’m turning 12 and I wanna be a fashion designer.
I’m good in math, drawing, and im sort of good in knitting (im learning, but im good enough now)
I ADORE fashion designing specially the part when you end up with alot of clothes 😉
but i need tips.. any help?
thnx in advance!! 😀

psst… the rules of Yahoo answers say you need to be over 13 to post questions…Can you edit out your age? I don’t want your question deleted before seeing my answer.

To answer your question: at your age you should be learning how to make clothes and how to take the clothes you have an make them different and special. You can add beads, trims, appliques, sparkly things, paint…anything and everything creative. At your age you should be developing your imagination and exploring your creativity. You are too young to worry about the business and the technical stuff, you can learn that later…when you are young it’s more important to unchain the imagination and let your thoughts run free and untamed. Pattern making is easy to learn…creativity can’t be taught.

You should be experimenting with a sewing machine and fabric, trying to turn your sketches and ideas into clothes. Try to make a dress form based on your body and then drape fabric on it, pin it together, sew it ups and see how it looks. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes and learn from mistakes. All designers are willing to fail, because a failed experiment can pave the way for a successful design. Keep a record of what you have made, fabric samples, and write out what worked, what didn’t any lessons learned, and what you might do different next time or what you will do the same. I have kept a record like that since I was about 13, and I still keep a record of experiments, special pieces, or any new tricks or techniques.

Try sewing from commercial patterns and become the best sewer that you can be. The clothes you make from patterns should look like you bought them in the store. (fashion schools ALL require the student to be able to sew, some will take an accomplished seamstress with few sketches and lots of completed clothes over someone with a thousand drawings. and no clothes. When you sew with patterns try to make each piece unique and add touches of your own personality. As you progress you will discover that you are naturally attracted to certain colors, certain motifs, etc, this is your person artistic style developing. This is a good thing, everyone needs a personal artistic vision and personal artistic style, even fashion designers. You might find you put turtles on everything, or maybe flowers…that’s part of your style. (I put mushrooms on everything and my favourite print is almost always paisley)

Develop a love for fibers and fabrics, all textiles, clothes, sewing and the creative process that goes into creating the clothes. Develop a love for all things hand crafted and hand made. Try other crafts along side sewing and clothing, such as knitting, beading, applique, patchworking and quilting, fabric embellishments and hand embroidery. All these can be used on clothes to make them special

And that’s what you can do at your age. That’s how many of the designers I have met started. If you read designer biographies most will say that they started at about 12-14 making crafts and clothes and discovered that they loved doing it and they just kept doing it until it became their career.

That’s what you need to do at your age.

Richard Box: From Drawing to Free Hand Machine Embroidery

October 9th, 2011 21 comments

Richard Box is the author of sevaral drawing and illustration books available from SEARCH PRESS. He is as well a well-known sewing machine free-hand embroiderer who works from illustrations of animals, flowers — just about anything to produce wonderful embroidered recreations on textile using straight stitch on a sewing machine.

We caught up with Richard at the 2007 Knitting & Stitching Show at the National Exhibition Centre in England and had the chance to visit his booth and watch some wonderful demonstrations!

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BERNINA Embroidery Software Version 6 and the free-hand drawing tools

September 24th, 2011 No comments

The Freehand Tool of the BERNINA Embroidery Software Version 6 allows you to create patterns without confines. Draw a line or a closed shape and pick the run stitch or fill stitch you’d like to fill that shape with. In this instructional video, we show you how to create special textures and effects with the BERNINA Embroidery Software Version 6 and the free-hand drawing tool. For this, you draw the desired shapes free-hand with your mouse. It’s even easier if you use a graphics tablet to do this. In our example we’ve used the tool for open objects to model the details of a digitalized design more realistically and modify it to our taste. Check out the other parts of the online tutorial to learn more about BERNINA Embroidery Software Version 6 or visit us at http://www.bernina.com

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