her to the fashion industry. The dresses and costumes for dance as a child spurred her creative side‚ and she often spent hours drawing dresses for dance. It was then that she realized that she could make the drawings a reality‚ into the dresses of her dreams. After graduating High School‚ Betsey attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and then transferred for the rest of her college career to Syracuse University. Throughout college‚ she continued to follow her love of clothing and fashion‚ and had her
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FASHION DESIGN Fashion Designing is the art of applying design and taste to create fashionable‚ trendy clothing. Fashion designers are most influenced by their culture. Some fashion designers work individually or in a team. The main goal of a fashion designer is to keep up with the styles and make their clothing appeal to consumers. Fashion Designers have many duties such as: Researching‚ sketching‚ choosing materials‚ looking at retail samples‚ and marketing
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program Three Year Diploma in Fashion Design. My decision to study fashion design has been inspired by the work of my mother and sister. My mother creates clothes models and knits a lot. My sister devises fashions jewelry: brooches‚ earrings‚ rings‚ pins from polymer clay and plastic. We have a small family business in the fashion industry. In the future‚ we plan to develop a family business to the enterprise level. This is very beneficial‚ because in Ukraine fashion for both women and men is of
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Age is no longer the only criteria that defines vintage fashion. “Vintage implies that it has archival value‚” said Cameron Silver‚ owner of Decades‚ the extremely popular Los Angeles vintage store. Strictly speaking‚ vintage fashion would ideally be clothing that is atleast 25 to 30 years old‚ but this is highly debatable now. Some say that vintage fashion spanned from the 20s to 50s‚ and all that came in after that is “retro clothing”‚ whereas others argue that the 80s is as much vintage as the
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Fashion of the Decades Fashion designs are always changing from season to season. They never stay the same. The colors‚ cuts‚ and fabrics go in and out of style all the time. Fashion has always affected society since the beginning of time. Fashion from the 1920’s to the 1990’s changed rapidly. Fashion affects everybody even if a person doesn’t know it‚ from hemline trends to haircut styles. Old trends are always re-worked and recycled to become new again. The Industrial Revolution of the early
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How fashion professionals are inspired by history and culture? It has long been claimed that fashion is a repetition of well-forgotten old. For centuries‚ designers drew inspiration from ancient cultures and traditions‚ ancient civilizations‚ mythical gods and exotic countries. Often the Greek goddesses‚ who have long manipulated the arts and war‚ intervened also in fashion. For years the dresses are current‚ familiar from mythology and the movies with mythological themes - naked shoulder‚ enchanting
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The Issue of Environmental Impact of Fashion Waste on Landfills Summary of the issue Driven by my passion for sustainable fashion‚ I am particularly interested in the environmental impact of garment waste ending up in landfills. Every year‚ 0.5 million tonnes of clothing are dumped into landfill sites in the world (M&S.com‚ 2013). Furthermore‚ one in four garments sold is thrown away each year. Textile waste in landfills is now raising environmental issues. For example‚ synthetic fibre products
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THE IMPORTANCE OF ORIGINALITY IN FASHION BY FIRUZÉ FRENCH The Importance of Originality in Fashion By originality in fashion‚ I’m not talking about the originality of everyday people and their fashion style‚ what they wear and how they wear it. I’m talking about the difficulty top fashion designers face every 6 months when they make a great effort to create a contemporary and original collection for the fashion catwalk to please brutally honest fashion critics‚ of magazines and of the public
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INTRODUCTION Fashion may strike the public as of little importance and even refer to it as a luxury. However‚ fashion is evident everywhere especially in today’s society where fashion has become a means of self-expression. The popular society of today are becoming more and more aware of the importance of fashion in their daily lives or‚ to the least‚ in important occasions where first impression already matter. The widespread awareness of fashion entails creative minds to innovate and design
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Global Fashion Giants: Gucci and Louis Vuitton In order to understand the key success factors required for any fashion powerhouse to succeed in the global scenario‚ we decided to look at two of the world’s largest fashion conglomerates – Gucci and Louis Vuitton. We looked at the evolution of these companies and also at the different strategies these companies have employed over time to achieve the position in the world fashion market they have today. This analysis helped us in figuring out the feasibility
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