Remember the Claire McCardell Museum Visit post? Remember the Agatha Ruiz de la Prada Museum Visit? Did you enjoy Tamara de Lempicka’s luscious paintings and carefully sculpted forms? I love a day at the museum, and strive to remember that fashion is, or can be, art. I always feel reminded of that when my neighbors from Bangladesh …
Museum Visit: Seydou Keita, African Fashion and Photography Read More »
(remember last week’s post about color? I found these images of Ronaldo Fraga’s spring/summer 2015 collection the next day..cool, right?) At the end of this post there are lots of images. Scroll down to see several Sao Paulo collections. I guess I’m just going to share all of my secrets with you all! Sharing makes …
Fashion Design, Research, and Sao Paulo Fashion Week Read More »
Ahhhhhhh, colors. Fashion. I’m obsessed. Right now it’s pale pale pale pink (which I never would have worn years ago), and royal blue, and mint green. Lemon yellow. I love pastels and pure hues when paired with each other or with white. Color is joy. Color is a public service. Color is happiness. Color is …
I eagerly unwrapped my review copy of the newly released Draping, the Complete Course by Karolyn Kiisel on Laurence King Publishing, a few months ago. (Hang in here, the juiciest part is at the end 🙂 It sure shows how many years have passed since I taught sophomore draping at Parsons in New York, 1997-2001… when …
Hello TRIBE! I miss you! I’ve been busy registering and prepping my pilot run of 12-week Fashion Design Semester online course and it’s been eating up a lot of my time. I am so EXCITED as I’m connecting with each new student and meeting new artists and designers from around the world. Pinch …
Illustrating fashion designs in gouache: Do YOU GET NERVOUS approaching the blank page? That’s normal. I thought I’d share a few photos step by step of myself illustrating fashion design from a photo/model/dress/design/fabric that I just loved by KachiDesigns, (who I discovered through AfricaFashionWeek (AFW) and follow on Instagram). My remedy for “blank page freeze-up” is …
I love Brazilian Fashion!! Hello Fashion Tribalistas! There’s a lot I’d like to add to this post in the upcoming week, but I’m totally swamped with my Parsons classes wrapping up and a HUMUNGOUS illustration presentation that I’m working up for designer Catherine Addai-Boadu including full color illustrations and flats for all of the looks …
Claire McCardell Museum Visit! In honor of the time-honored tradition that we used to have at Parsons, before the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute‘s current incarnation, the Junior classes would go into this basement of the Museum and get to see the inside and outside her garments. Click here to view the “Claire McCardell” exhibit …
For those of you who read last week’s post about gouache fashion illustration, (“FOUR GOUACHE COLORS YOU CAN”T LIVE WITHOUT…..”) here is more on the subject. But in today’s sketch, the ensemble is ANYTHING BUT white!! Full of vibrant color, this piece was inspired by the Ndebele culture of South Africa. Here is another piece …
Gouache Fashion Illustration Technique 4 GOUACHE COLORS YOU CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT!! I’m here to introduce your to your four new best friends (besides ME) in fashion illustration!!! While quiet in appearance, these four simple tubes or colors of “goo-AH-sh” will add dimension, life, and beauty to your fashion illustration technique and can’t be substituted! Today …
ROCKPAPERINK………. This year I will be blogging for fashion monthly for my publisher, Rockport, on their website RockPaperInk The column is called Fashion: Global Voices and my first two posts so far discuss AFWNY (Africa Fashion Week New York) and BIFW (Bangkok International Fashion Week), discussing designers and sharing work that I really hope you …
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