With the onset of the pandemic, many organizations and people have started to enjoy the leisure of working in their own private spaces. It gives them the ease to work in their own comfort; and, yet style themselves in the expected/necessary attire. This makes them feel comfortable as well as maintain the decorum as necessary,…
Category: fashion education
Colour: The moods and meanings of colours, What you radiate and What others might perceive?
We all emit or lets say radiate! Our emotions – happiness, sadness, eagerness, holding-back, lust, disapproval, etc. and worse! Sometimes our actions and ambience we are in either compliments our radiations or contradicts them and neutralizes them. That’s how colours play a pivotal roles in our lives. What we wear, and where we choose to…
Fashion Photoshoots and Collaborations (Collabs)
Any product developed has to go through a process of marketing through various presentation techniques and other strategies! But for a creative product, the Fashion/Collaborations Photoshoot is probably the prime step towards presentation of the product. Now who doesn’t like to present the product? In all it’s glory? Rhetoric question, right? We all create exciting…
Fashion Designers – What to do and What not to do for young designers and aspiring designers
In this blog I will be talking about some of the most common mistakes young aspiring designers do and how to possibly overcome them. I understand most young designers are extremely passionate and love the work they do, but can that be their downfall? Some aspiring young designers might actually hate me for some of…
The two types of designers we encounter – Fashion Followers vs Fashion Creators & the in betweens
There are usually 2 types of Fashion Designers those who play in – between. They can be categorised as Fashion Trend/Forecast Followers Fashion Creators The ones who play In – Between So when one is buying a from a fashion designer, you can be aware of what one is buying depending on one’s own interest….
The Fashion Design Process – Concept to Design
The Fashion Design Process, unlike what non-fashion designers and the uninitiated think, it is definitely not just out of the box thinking, nor bringing up glorious ideas by magic, out of the big blue sky! (*Pun Intended) Rather, let us think of it as a constructive process, building it up block by block all the…
The Elements of Fashion Design
We have all heard of Elements and Principles of Art & Design. Principles such as Balance, Unity, Emphasis, Repetition/Pattern, movement, rhythm, harmony, etc. Now these principles remain the same across all design/art fields, since these are more directional towards the approach we wish to follow in our works/products. Also, information about the above is available,…
The Importance of Technical Knowledge in Fashion Design and the Basic necessary Skill Set
The education of Fashion Design according to me has 6 basic skills that needs to be mastered. To list them out:- Pattern Making Skills Draping Skills Construction Skills Textile/Fabric knowledge Surface Development/Embellishment skills Sketching/Croqui Development skills & Flat Sketches (On paper or on digital media) The rest of the skills usually taught in most institutes…
The importance of the ‘Black Book’ for every designer
I do not know how much I should stress that my black books are my wealth! Every designer according to me should maintain a black book/dairy where he/she is always updating it with the ideas he/she gets immaterial of it’s utilization. Let me state the problems every designer goes through and alternatively stress on how…
My Fashion journal - An Aphrodite by Nags Journey 