Lessons
Fashion Design Inspiration: Where to Begin
1Intro to Fashion Design Inspiration: Where to Begin
04:10 2Why Create a Moodboard?
12:03 3Student Mood Boards
24:59 4Fashion Inspiration Resources
09:54 5Learn from the Masters of Fashion
23:32 6Explore New Fashion Frontiers
06:52 7Why Narrow Your Focus?
19:48Find a Fashion Specialty
11:18 9Craft a Collection
31:37 10Learn to Edit
12:32Making Fashion: Draw, Draft and Sew
11Intro to Making Fashion: Draw, Draft and Sew
04:07 12Why Start with a Sketch?
07:11 13Drawing: Draw Your Muse
35:41 14Drawing: Sketch a Figure and Define a Silhouette
19:07 15Drawing: Render Color
10:56 16Drawing: Add Texture, Patterns, and Details
12:58 17Pattern Draping: Working with Muslin
06:14 18Pattern Draping: Drape a Basic Form
25:44 19Pattern Draping: Drape Folds
05:43 20Pattern Draping: Experiment with Style Lines
06:21 21Pattern Flat: Create and True a Pattern
09:31 22Draping and Patterning Recap
05:55 23Constructing Clothes: Put it Together
09:51 24Constructing Clothes: Make it Special and Finish Well
07:22Fashion Marketing and Branding
25Intro to Fashion Marketing and Branding
04:55 26Explore Your Audience
33:41 27Display, Data and Design
04:28 28Share Your Work
05:44 29Find Your Following
09:45 30Inform Your Brand
14:51 31Build Your Business Model
14:34 32Why Tell Your Fashion Story?
28:25 33Establish Relationships
17:27 34Be Ready for Change
25:12Produce a Fashion Show
35Intro to Produce a Fashion Show
01:12 36The Fashion Show: Why? When? How?
06:13 37Pre-Show: Develop a Fashion Show Concept
23:46 38Pre-Show: Build a Team
22:09 39Pre-Show: Create a Timeline and Checklist
22:45 40Day of Show: Backstage Strategy
14:06 41Show: Working with Front of House
18:43 42Show: Scheduling Run of Show
17:12 43Show: Breaking Down the Event
19:30 44Post-Show: Increasing Your Audience
10:06 45Post-Show: PR for Fashion Shows
04:16 46Post-Show: Dealing with Downtime
04:54 47Fashion Design: Start to Finish - Wrap Up
05:30Lesson Info
Draping and Patterning Recap
I just want to talk about taylor driven versus textile driven and pattern driven with taylor driven we did that in the first example we did a garment that taylor to the body and we noticed we cut away a lot of things but but with textile driven, the strategy is a little different tailor driven is kind of more of a european concept where people would cut into a kn actual textile but we have this beautiful fabric right here that's a margaux, right? Yeah this's your fabric and this is just so exquisite it's wanted to show it to you but this is something that I would be really hesitant to cut into for any reason whatsoever if I could avoid it I would try to save this is a cz much as possible. So I mean it has a lot of great factors. It plays into textile driven as well as pattern driven because it has a border so your whole design process could be built about around the actual pattern and saying I want this to go like this I want this to go like this. I want this on the bottom. I want this...
to be a jacket or it lines up like this so you can use the fabric is inspiration. A lot of designers are very textile oriented and that's their starting point today we've gone through a process of mood boards and it's sketching and pattern making, but for some people, they'd start with the actual fabric. So for your pattern making this could be a guide and and getting back to textile driven there's a lot. There are a lot of cultures, uh, I know of one incredible designer, carlo fernandez, who works with indigenous communities to figure out how they work. And a lot of times you can get the quality of something fitted or draping around the body by tucking and pleading, and something that, in theory you could then take apart and the fabric is still intact. Ah, lot of textiles, textiles were the real valuable thing in history when it comes to fashion, and passing them on was a tradition. So you would have a skirt, a beautiful big skirt that has been all pleaded untucked and your daughter or or the next season. You know, the next, you know, ten years later, some like that you want a different fashion, you can take it apart, and that fabric is still intact. And you see that in in in kind of cultural dressing, like through saris and kills. Kilts originally were all just folded fabric that was belted, they weren't sewn down, so they were they were all draped around the body. So you want to remember those things sometimes you don't want to touch to cut into the fabric because it could be really valuable and very beautiful to work with its natural properties. So and this is again, one school of thought, very driven she well, she the dress must follow the body of a woman and not the body following the shape of a dress that is one school of thought. But then you also want to think about how you can have garments that have different relationships to the body. So they maybe this shape, that the body is sort of suspended in so you can have things that go away from the body or conformed to the body. So and we've done all this, measuring both on the dress form and on paper. Andi, I just wanted to kind of, uh, note that with technology, they're all these really cool different tools to get very exact measurements. This is a graphic for body scanner where you go in and it scans your entire body and measures every little part of you, and then it can actually generate information for creating pattern. It's so and those are things that normally someone would do with a tape measure and measure all you know, the horizontal lines, all the vertical lines but it could be really pretty amazing body scatter like at the airport? Yes, except except not so so well maybe intends depends on how you feel about your reverence that no thinking technology has actually been around for a while, but but it's still not common it's still not a common thing, but it is the way things are moving, you know, because I think eventually you'd have a scanner like that you could punch it would punch in all the information to a computer that has thes these patterns in there. And a computer would calculate all the, you know, the changes, and then a three d printer would print it out, you know? So in theory I can see that happening in the future, you know, the way things were going allright. So asai mentioned measurements of the foundation so so important to take measurements and to take accurate measurements the slope er's we talked about being these basic patterns, and we saw how we could take a basic pattern and manipulate it, and then we've saved all that great hard work that we've done to make sure we have great fit and true ing precision corrections like really being focused on that we did the manipulations just now. Digital as well. A lot of this is actually me at our school, and we have a plotter where we will take a pattern like this, and all these manipulations can be done in the computer, and the computer is also really good at correcting your corrections. Like if you're off by an eighth of an inch, you can figure that out and make that correction to have a really accurate pattern. And one of the nice thing about digital, just sort of like images, is that digital and measurements translate across. You know, any culture, any country. So if you have a good image and you have good measurements, you know, in a good pattern, anyone around the world can figure out how to make that garment for you if you're working in the industry.
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Ratings and Reviews
Abbeylynne
Jay is a rare gem in the world of instructors. He has the perfect balance of information, examples, and hands on visuals. He included his students in the teaching process. They were not just the audience. Even the viewers were encouraged to participate! I loved his teaching style and enthusiasm as well as the content of information he shared with us. He covered a vast amount of information and led us at a pace that was very easy to follow. It reaffirmed my love of fashion as well as designing new ideas. This class was inspiring and motivating. If you are even the slightest bit curious about Fashion Design, constructing patterns, or even drawing models, this class is for you. It was all encompassing for an overview of Fashion Design from start to finish. Jay has an easygoing manner that you will want to watch him again and again. A great resource for your library. I can't wait to see him again in the Creative Live classroom!. Good luck to Jay and all his endeavors! Thank you Creative Live for providing yet another great learning opportunity for an international audience.
Michelle B
This is day one of Jays class and I am already hooked and purchased this class. Jay is an awesome instructor. He explains everything in easy to understand terms. He explained things that I have bought books to learn and didn't in one easy lesson. I recommend this class for anyone that has a interest in Fashion design or even learning to draw models for anything you need to sketch out. I hope Creative Live will bring Jay back for more classes. Jay is a instructor also worth having in your tool box of CL classes to refer back to for learning and inspiration! Thank You Jay for sharing your knowledge with us!!
Anji
I agree with everything that michelle-b said in her review of this class, and will add that I can tell that he is an instructor who not only knows his subject matter, but has excellent teaching skills. He is very engaged with his students, and focused on making sure that they get what he is telling/showing them. He also has the rare gift of distilling a complex subject down to its essence and teaching it in a simplified form that gives the student a good overview of the basics, and somehow also gives the student insight into more of the subject’s depth than he actually says in words. This broader understanding of the subject empowers the student to proceed on a much higher level than would be possible after taking any other course overview. Even more amazing is that the lessons covered in this way could be (and are) full courses in themselves elsewhere, but were merely segments of this two-day CL class. For this reason, if I ever got a chance to take one of Jay’s classes at the School of Fashion Design, I would take it in an instant. I too bought this class by the end of Day 1. For me, the segments on sketching and drafting alone were worth the $69, and the rest is bonus.
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