New Dates at Fashion Antidote - Business and Sewing

A few new dates for our Fashion Business and Weekend Learn to Sew courses...

First Steps To Setting Up A Fashion Business - 9th May

This course will show you to the first steps you need to take to setting up a fashion business. You will examine your business idea, product or service and consider the viability of it. You will then make a plan of action you need to undertake to research the market, your target customer and the completion. Lots of insider information supplied.

£45.00

Availability: 6 places left

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Time: 18:30 - 21:00

Duration Details: 1 evening, 2.5 hours 

Sewing Classes in London - Weekend

5th & 6th May

Sewing classes for absolute beginners to learn the basic uses of a sewing machine.

Learn about the sewing machine parts and the up keep of the sewing machine. Learn about using the correct needles and threads and to thread the sewing machine correctly and adjust the tension.
You will practice basic stitches, make a variety of seams, sew curves and corners, pivot and sew different types of darts and how to make gathers.
On the second day you will learn how to insert different types of zips, attach waistbands and facings, and how to hem and finish a garment and how to mark and make button holes.
You will also learn how to choose a commercial pattern, lay a pattern on fabric and cut out and mark, ready to sew.

£195.00

Availability: 6 places left

Saturday, May 5th & 6th

Time: 10:30 - 16:30

Duration Details: 2 days, 12 hours 

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A JOB IN FASHION?

Whether you are a graduate with a fashion related degree, already working in the industry but not sure what to next or want a change of career and considering fashion - this course will give a real insight into the business and show you what you need to make your next move. Whether you are looking for your first or next job we will set you on the right path and help you get into the fashion industry.

How to Get A Job In Fashion

The course runs over 3 Monday evenings in 2 hour sessions, includes a C.V and portfolio review, and costs £85.

After 25 successful years in the fashion industry our tutors will give you commercial information vital to any career, to help you stand out against the competition and increase your chances of successfully finding employment, as well as supplying you with key contacts to help you on your way.

Contact info@fashionantidote.com, or call 02073753235 today to secure your place.

All the skills you'd ever need for professional fashion... Fashion Antidote Summer School

 

Places are filling up fast for our Summer School - a condensed program of professional fashion skills, spread over 7 weeks spent in our studio just off Brick Lane. 

 Go the whole hog and spend the whole 7 weeks with us, gaining priceless knowledge and skills in all areas of fashion design and garment construction, or pick and choose what area suits your needs, with packages spanning Pattern Cutting, Garment Construction, Fashion Design, Fashion Drawing and Fashion Business.

See the website for more details.

The new programme gets under way

This sunny weekend saw the long awaited start of our new programme, with the first of the Garment Construction tuition.

We’re really excited about this new edition to our courses; a comprehensive full programme of skills for the fashion industry, covering garment construction, pattern cutting, drawing and design and marketing aspects. Students on this course will learn all the skills they need to design, cut and make a commercially viable collection and to analyse their place within the market. This is the first time we have run such a full comprehensive course, and the first weekend saw a great turn out of eager students getting their teeth into some essential sewing skills.

Want to become a fashion expert?

The course will be expanding in September, but we are currently running the course as both a full programme covering all aspects of design for industry, and as individual sections, for those who want high quality tuition of industry level skills on a specific aspect.

 By doing so, students can either gain a broad but detailed understanding of the fashion design industry as a whole on the full programme, or gain expertise in a specific skill through the smaller sections.

 The sections are: Pattern Cutting, Garment Construction, and Design for a Fashion Collections, check out the website for more details.

A few places still remain on the individual segments, for more information please contact us on 0207 375 3235, or email to info@fashionantidote.com.

 

Do you dream of being a designer?

The Fashion Design - Design a Fashion Collection for a Target Customer segment will be running from Friday, June 3 to Friday, July 29. Focussing on the design process and analysing target customers and the commercial market, this block of classes will provide all the skills and knowledge a student needs to design a viable collection. 

Taught by a team of experienced industry practitioners and tutors, the course covers a whole range of necessary skills and knowledge over 36 hours, perfect for to learn all the ins and outs of the fashion design world. Learn to create moodboards, analyse trends, and identify your target market; draw on inspirations and research to create a unique collection, and study the branding, costing and pricing and the technical drawings to realise it.

 For a full break down of the extensive skills covered in the course, see the website here.

Looking for something less extensive? Simply want to learn to sew? Have a peek at our popular Learn To Sew classes.

Fashion Antidote Featured In Cloth Magazine

Those lovely people over at Cloth Magazine have featured Fashion Antidote on their website, click here to have a better look, and have a look around their site too.

A peek inside our studio...

Based just off Brick Lane, our studio is an intimate, relaxed and friendly setting for all our courses. With all the equipment and facilities needed for all classes, from pattern cutting to design, business to alterations, our space is also used by fashion designers, pattern cutters, stylists and consultants.

Welcome to the Fashion Antidote Blog

Fashion Antidote is a small independent fashion school and studio, with an emphasis on fashion based, technique and skill building short courses.  Placed in East London just off Brick Lane, Fashion Antidotes’ courses are affordable, professional and fun. Whether you are furthering existing fashion and textile skills, learning to alter and adjust clothes, or want to start sewing from scratch, come and get a real taste of the fashion industry, and find the course for you. 

What we do...

For the beginners out there, our Learn to Sew courses offer tuition on all the basics of a sewing machine. With all the materials and facilities provided, you'll have everything you need to get to grips with basic sewing skills. Courses run in evenings, daytime and at weekends, so always working around your schedule. 

For more the experienced of you, courses such as Garment making, Introduction to corsetry and Making jeans will further those existing skills, and for those who want to take their skills further into building a business, Fashion Antidote also offers business consultancy, to help get you started.