Category: Fashion
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Fabric Border dress
One of our assignments was to find fabric that had a border around the outside, make a garment with it and match the border seamed edges. Surprisingly, fabric designs with borders were hard to find unless you veered into the silk fabrics, which can be $15 per yard/panel and up. And since this was just…
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Vintage Dior and Art Deco Clothes in the Costume Closet
Not many people know that LA Trade Tech has a room full of vintage designer and antiquated clothes donated to the school over the years. The archive provides a reference for teachers to show certain silhouettes and a close study of the inner and outer constructions of garments. Unfortunately due to state budget cuts, the…
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Gold Thimble Fashion Show Entry: After Five Cocktail Dress
My next entry in the Gold Thimble Fashion show is for the After Five Cocktail Dress category. The color theme was black, silver, and gold (although I don’t think this was strictly adhered to) and the length needed to be at least 21 inches below the waist. Since I’ve been enamored of the Roaring 20’s…
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Gold Thimble Fashion Show Entry: Swimsuit and Coverup
Sorry for the lack of updates, this semester is pretty intense as I’m involved in creating designs for the Gold Thimble Fashion Show for my school. After a little prodding from my friend Sinclaire, who said that showing the process of design along the way would be much more fun for the readers than a deluge…
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IFB: When Good Sites Go Bad
A couple years ago, I joined a fashion blogging community called Independent Fashion Bloggers (IFB) because of an eye-opening article about how sites like Chictopia were selling their community members pictures without consent to brands. IFB pointed out how Chictopia used verbiage in their Terms of Service to be able to co-opt bloggers’ images for…
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YSL designer Hedi Slimane has a Pretty Woman moment on Rodeo
It would seem that YSL’s new designer Hedi Slimane had a ‘Pretty Woman’ moment recently, he walked into the Yves Saint Laurent store on Rodeo Drive and went unrecognized by the staffers. When the store manager, who approached him, didn’t even know his name, he was fired on the spot. The manager could be forgiven…
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Unconventional Design – Turning menswear into a gown
Pic source: Tom Ford For one of my summer class assignments, our class had to use menswear in order to create a special occasion dress. Since menswear usually has more tailored construction details than womenswear – collars, cuffs, waistband, etc – we were to incorporate those details to reflect a sense of humor. So, I…
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Los Angeles based YSL designer Hedi Slimane is causing waves
Saint Laurent Couture Salons/photo by Hedi Slimane After going to the Yves Saint Laurent exhibit in Denver and hearing that newly appointed Creative Director Yves Saint Laurent designer Hedi Slimane’s design studio would be based out of Los Angeles, my interest in the brand was piqued. Slimane relocated to Los Angeles after he left Dior…
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Herb Ritts: LA Style at the Getty Museum
Last year, I got to know more about the works of famed fashion photographer Herb Ritts by way of learning about one of his prior assistants, celebrity and fashion photographer Brian Bowen Smith, at a lecture called ‘What is Beauty?’ sponsored by the Annenberg Space for Photography. You can clearly see Ritt’s influence on Bowen…
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Why doesn’t Los Angeles get a fashion designer retrospective exhibits? Oh right…LACMA has priorities…
So, after seeing the “Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective” exhibit at the Denver Art Museum, and hearing about the Alexander McQueen “Savage Beauty” exhibit at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk” exhibit at the de Young Fine Art Museum of San Francisco, it made me and my friend…