http://www.britneyspearscircusleak.com Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:46:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.britneyspearscircusleak.com/high-heels-high-hopes-and-the-role-of-fashion-design-schools.html http://www.britneyspearscircusleak.com/high-heels-high-hopes-and-the-role-of-fashion-design-schools.html#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:32:47 +0000 admin http://www.nailaintan.co.cc/high-heels-high-hopes-and-the-role-of-fashion-design-schools.html The fashion world has long been filled with glitz and glamour. The ramp for models is always long, dramatic, and well-lighted. The walk is certainly a walk for fame, fortunately for aspirants but sometimes leading to a walk for shame. Who is behind all these promises and/or even breakdowns? No less than the fashion designers.

What, exactly, does a fashion designer do?

Basically, with streaks of talent, creativity, and sensitivity, fashion designers, as if influenced by Rumpelstiltskin, craft accessory and clothing sketches. They usually concentrate in one nature of accessory or garment such as women’s or men’s apparels, swimwear, lingerie, children’s garments, handbags, and even shoes. They, sometimes, lead the groundwork of the creation and promotion of their creations.

Famous fashion designers prefer to be self-employed and they cater for the request of their clients. Some cater to high-fashion department stores or to specialty stores. They establish fashion statements by setting the colors, silhouette, and type of materials that are worn each season.

There are also some designers who are employed by manufacturers of clothes. These designers just adapt fashion statements set by other designers for the market. However, there are small manufacturers who just purchase or copy designs.

Both designers sketch unique garments and follow certain trends in fashion. Likewise, both need assistants who should get used to the fast-paced schedule of the fashion business.

In detail, these designers execute the following tasks:

• Draw their unique designs.

• Create patterns for sample garments.

• Choose textile and add-ons (accessories).

• Apply tailoring and basic dressmaking principles along with draping techniques and flat pattern works.

• Fit and alter the completed product, if necessary.

• Set-up a fashion show.

• Compare the performance of the merchandise against the competitors.

• Keep self up-to-date of latest fashion trends thru magazines and other fashion shows.

• Have frequent trips to fabric showrooms to keep self updated of latest type of fabrics.

Actually, fashion designers can be categorized as follows:

1. Lead or Head Designers

They take care of the executive and creative tasks.

2. Assistant or Apprentice Designers

They usually make patterns and sample garments. They may also teach sample makers how to make patterns and designer garments.

3. Specialty Designers

They coordinate with other designers about special lines of garments.

4. Costume or Theatrical Designers

They usually create costumes used in theater and movie productions on a contractual basis.

The foundations for their creations are their knowledge, skills, and abilities honed in fashion schools and trainings in the long run.

• Basic Design – This refers to technical know-how included in the creation and use of technical blueprints, drawings, plans, and models.

• Idea Production – This is the ability of designers to approach problems creatively and resourcefully.

• Dynamic Learning – This is being able to analyze implications of new information and materials at hand.

• Operations Scrutiny – This is considering requirements of products to execute a design.

• Uniqueness – This pertains to unusual cleverness vis-à-vis trying situations.

• Harmonization – This is being able to having good coordination with others.

• Visioning – This is being able to see how an organization works under real conditions.

The talents and skills of these artists are really important in the fashion industry. The work requires an eye for a striking creation and business management. Thus, aside from the portfolio of their usually creations, formal education help these designers acquire the secrets of the trade in this business. In fact, graduation from a college or school that provides training on fashion and design is highly recommended in the industry, to keep incoming designers updated on the advent of new techniques and technologies.

However, some leaders of this industry view vocational training schools and community college as more capable of producing competent artists because these institutions work along with clothing industries.

Vocational schools provide trainings in sketching, draping and grading, pattern making, garment construction, textiles and trimmings, costume history, principles of design and color; and how to plan and market seasonal fashion lines.

High school students inclined in fashion and design should finish basic courses in arts, sewing, mathematics, speech, English, and business.

Usually, vocational institutions provide a two-leveled program with certificate that is consonant to the degree in Associate of Arts. For those who want to enter the fashion field immediately, a first level certificate of proficiency is provided. The next level of proficiency, the second-level requires a greater time of completion. But upon graduation, artists are considered competent enough to aim for positions as Assistant Designers. After all the necessary formal trainings and specializations, those who have the guts and high hopes spin gold fabrics!

]]> http://www.britneyspearscircusleak.com/high-heels-high-hopes-and-the-role-of-fashion-design-schools.html/feed 0 http://www.britneyspearscircusleak.com/how-to-decide-on-a-fashion-design-school.html http://www.britneyspearscircusleak.com/how-to-decide-on-a-fashion-design-school.html#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:14:53 +0000 admin http://www.nailaintan.co.cc/how-to-decide-on-a-fashion-design-school.html You may have the talent and the unique sense for fashion but without structured training, you might well fail to truly understand and explore many of your gifts. Some wouuld argue that, one’s success in the field of fashion relies partly on your choice of school. In this article, we will provide you with the basic criteria you can use in exploring your options in terms of the various fashion design schools.

This is one of the main considerations that will have a large impact on your choice of Fashion Design School. The sad truth with fashion design schools is that they are so few in number and amongst this relatively small number there are a handful of Fashion Design Schools that can truly deliver efficient education.

As with so many other things, the lower cost fashion design schools can only be considered of value if they can give effective learning. However, this is rarely the case though because, with lower fees, generally comes a lower quality of education. Primarily the reason is that these schools cannot afford to employ the quality of professional teachers. Therefore, they settle for people who can teach at a basic level but who do not necessarily have the professional knowledge and skill to be truly effective teachers. If you do your research you will be able to find some well-performing fashion design schools that will suit your means.

In the fashion industry, it is well recognized that certain Fashion Design Schools specialize in certain areas and you need to be aware of this when making your choice.

The first thing you would want to do is to study the nature of the fashion design school. What fields does it cater for? What courses does it focus on? What is their main emphases in delivering their courses or programmes? These are among the many things that you should give serious consideration to because the fashion design school that you choose will have a large influence on your career in the future.

One of the best determinants for your choice of school is ensuring that you know their reputation. A qulity fashion design school is one that makes itself renowned in the world of fashion through their teaching and also through what former students say and do. Does the school you are considering participate in fashion design school competitions? This would be a very clear indication of fostering excellence in the industry and the commitment of the Fashion Design School to the very highest levels of education.

To ensure that you are able to truly develop your abilities you must therefore find a school that focuses on your own field of specialization.

You need to consider the overall Curriculum which the school offers. As with college education, you must also check out the curriculum offered by the schools of fashion design that you are considering. To do this properly you should compare the curriculum from various schools and decide which you think would best fit in with your own preferences.

You also need to ask about and consider the ratio of teacher to students. The size of a class per teacher can indicate two things; the school is either too popular or it is underfunded. The reality is that, the larger the size of the class the more likely that the education provided will suffer. It is often better to choose between schools with relatively fewer students since this will normally indicate that the teachers can better focus on the individual students.

These are only some of the major points which you need to consider in making your choice of fashion design school. As for your final decision well it has to feel right to you because it is an important decision that you are making which can have a major impact on your future and your career.

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