OPPORTUNITES: Design Festival

London Design Festival

14^th – 23^rd September London is host to the 10^th Anniversary of the Design Festival.

Ideal for promising fashion designers, this is a great opportunity to keep your finger on the pulse and catch lots of free art exhibits, galleries, events, installations, design presentations… the list of events are endless, check out their site here for everything that’s going on.

The V&A is going to be a hub of activity during the period, click here to see what’s going to be on at our favourite museum.

The whole event looks to be incredibly inspiring, with a huge breadth of design related expos. Here a couple of the fashion related events:

Seven Designers for Seven Dials

Aerial open air exhibition/installation celebrating 7 designers in the 7 dials area of Covent Garden during the design festival. Pop into the Dezeen Super Store located at 38 Monmouth Street for a guide, 12^th – 30^th September.

Walterworks

Fashion art installation – we're not sure where it lies, but Walterworks looks to definitely be an inspiring fashion event within Design Week. From 17^th – 19^th September, 11AM to 8 PM, Walterworks will present brilliant designs of Wearable Art, Fashion made entirely from shoes, including trainers. The 2012 exhibition will include the wonderful recycled designs from 2 other young leading-edge Belgian designers, to be announced. See here for more info.

OPPORTUNITIES: Beta Fashion

Beta Fashion Projects

Beta Fashion is a website and venture developed to promote a new, design centred, collaborative way to create fashion garments. This open platform for fashion design allows artists, print and graphic designers to submit designs and then, through voting and social media platforms, the winning designs are featured of garments.

A great ways for designers to gain exposure and a taste of the commercial industry, check it out and submit your designs today.

See the website here for how to contribute your designs

https://www.betafashion.com/

This is print designer Nikki Strange's latest contribution, a stunning, vivid kaleidoscope of colour. See her other designs and recent winning designs here.

OPPORTUNITIES - design the next etnies eco tee contest - the planet is our playground

Design the next Etnies eco tee contest -  The planet is our playground

Etnies are asking the their fans to deign the new Eco tshirt, as a part of their bid to become carbon neutral by 2020.

A great opportunities to exercise your designing skills, especially if you’re a fan of boarding or extreme sports, and the 2 designs that received the most votes on the Facebook application will go into production. On top of that, a team of Etnies designers will select 2 designs that will also go in to production to be part of the Etnies Spring 2013 line.

In addition to the 4 winners having their design featured in the collection, the design with the most votes will win 5 pairs of Etnies Eco Jameson shoes and a handmade wooden surfboard.

Its pretty easy to enter, go to the Etnies Facebook (you have to like it to see it im afraid) and watch the video and follow the instructions. The competition ends on Wednesday June 6^th, so best of luck, and get designing!

http://vimeo.com/41480498

Great reviews of our Fashion Design Course (design a collection for a target customer)

A great review of our Fashion Design Course from past student, Heidi Anne Grant  

"Attended the last 'design a collection for a target customer', really impressed, lots of help to bring out the best in your creativity.
If you want to learn anything about Fashion this is the place to come!"

Fashion Design: Design a Collection for a Target Customer

The course will give you a taste of the fashion design process. Learn to design for a target customer, with the course covering sources of inspiration, trend and fabric research, mood boards, targeting customers, sketching and drawing, designing, range planning and design solutions.

Course Breakdown:

Intro to Fashion Industry

Levels of the market. The fashion calendar. The seasons. Fashion prediction and trend information, colour and fabric trends and predictions.
Fabric and trimming suppliers. Sampling and Manufacturing methods.

Intro to the Fashion Design Process

Design Research, sources of inspiration, themes and stories. Visual research - books, magazines, internet, and galleries etc. Sketching and drawing, note taking and collating. Mood boards and Theme boards. Create a customer profile. Identify the level of the market and stockists.

Sketching, Design Drawing, Specification Drawing

Observational Drawing, Analytical Drawing. Reference sketches. Figure drawing Specification or technical drawing. Getting your ideas on paper. Even if you are not good at drawing the techniques taught will enable you to achieve professional result

Design development / Range Planning

Work with all research, drawings and design roughs to develop a range of fashion garments aimed at a target market, Choose a colour palette and make fabric suggestions. Consider branding and visual identity.

Line up and Specification Drawing

Create a range plan and design line up with specification drawings for a fashion collection along with a colour palette and fabric research.
Create Specification Drawings for all garments showing front and back views.

Finalisation and Presentation

Finish all work and present to the group.

For more information see the website here, call on 02073753235 or email info@fashionantidote.com

Featured Class Fashion Drawing and Design - Design a Collection for a Target Customer

 

Today is the 3^rd installment of our design class, focusing on designing for a target customer. Ade, Heidi, Maureen, and Kelly have been developing their drawing styles and skills for the last 3 weeks and are coming on a treat.

So far they have researched surrounding a theme, created moodboards, researched and identified their customer profile. Today they are developing their ideas and embarking upon the first steps specification drawing.

It’s great to have such a varied class, with inspirations from Egyptians to suits and workwear, and target markets such as the taller women and niche formal childrenswear.

In the next couple of weeks the students will learn all about specification drawing, line up and range planning and will finish designing their collection. Keep an eye out for their finished designs!

If you’d like to join this course and learn all about designing for industry, the next daytime class starts Thursday 5th April and runs until 3rd May, and also runs On Thursday Evenings, starting Thursday 19th April until 31st May. See our website here for more details and to book your place.

Fashion Design for the Catwalk - with Alternative Fashion Week

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.

Make the most of the sunny weather

Its another beautiful day on Brick Lane, why not get ready for summer with our Make a Dress workshop?

Spend the day in our Brick Lane Studio, learning all the skills you need to create a simple dress, and leave with your finished garment. Perfect for those just looking to gain a few more sewing skills, if you're interested in creating simple dresses, or even as a stepping stone if you're looking to embark on a career in fashion.

All equipment and patterns are provided, as well as expert one to one tuition, just bring your own fabric. For more info see here. We look forward to seeing you!

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.