Looking ahead to September!

Last week saw the end of our pattern cutting programme. Students Rosie and Saiqa have flown through the course and achieved some amazing results, and are now getting ready to join our garment construction too, to learn some really expert level skills in making clothes. Its been a pleasure having you ladies!

Now were looking ahead to our September dates which are starting to book up. Garment Construction is on Tuesday daytimes or evenings, or saturday mornings, and Pattern Cutting is running on Wednesday daytimes or evenings, or saturday afternoons, so theres a course for everyone!

For more info on our pattern cutting programme or any other of our courses, please see our site here, or give us a call on 02073753235

Featured Student - Olu

  

Olu is an illustrator, who joined Fashion Antidote recently for our Garment Construction course, a part of our Skills Training Programme. She has so far completed the Skirt, Shirt, Dress and Jacket sections of the course and is well on her way to becoming an accomplished seamstress. Olu is an illustrator and joined us to broaden her skills and with the idea of expanding her illustrations into making objects and garments.

This is the dress she made at the studio, a fabulous choice of fabrics bought from her local market.

Do you want to learn to make garments like Olu? Why not sign up to a course in the new year. See here for our calendar for January.

The January Skills Training Programme - NEW SKILLS FOR THE NEW YEAR

NEW SKILLS FOR THE NEW YEAR

Our successful Skills Training Programme starts again for January, offering a comprehensive schedule of intensive, essential, industry level fashion skills. 

Learn to sew from scratch, to draft your own patterns to specific measurements, to make garments such as shirts, skirts, dresses and trousers. See HERE for some of our previous students on the Programme, their THOUGHTS on the course and what they ACHIEVED during the course. For more info on booking and payments see the WEBSITE.

Are you a Budding Designer?

The programme is the perfect alternative to a fashion design degree, covering all the necessary fashion construction skills and knowledge to make your own clothes and collection. 

Dreams of Dressmaking?

If you want to be an expert on Pattern Cutting or Garment Construction, or want to learn all the ins and outs of making your own clothes from scratch, then the Programme is the perfect choice. You can tailor which elements of the course suit you best, and the delivery that fits around your schedule; daytime, evening or weekends.

Nurturing Entrepreneurs

With a full course of technical, industry standard skills and techniques, followed and supplemented by a business course and one to one advice and support, the Programme has everything you need to get started as a small fashion business.

Featured class – Garment Construction

On a dreary and rather windy morning on Brick Lane, I arrive at the busy Fashion Antidote studio to the whirr of machines and chit chattering of voices. Today is the Garment Construction course, a part of our skills training programme, and the girls on the course are in the midst of making tailored jackets in calico. We’re nearing the end of the course now, with the jacket the final garment, after already completing a skirt, dress, shirt, and a pair of trousers, and its great to see the students flying through with Nina’s guidance, confident in their own abilities now.

 

In todays class the girls are here for a range of reasons. Olu, an illustrator, is learning to make clothes to fit her own particular shape, Tracy wants to make clothes for herself also, as a hobby and pastime, as is Inga, although Inga also hopes to one day have her own label too. Sarah is looking to go to uni to study fashion design, she thinks she will probably go into knitwear, but has come to us to learn all the necessary knowledge to make clothes before she goes, to be one step ahead.

Finished Jacket

Calico Jacket

 A very friendly and chatty classroom today, the students spurned on by Nina to successfully tackle ever daunting sleeves, surviving with no casualties and only a broken needle or two, amongst the discussion of sweaty yoga, spinning and energetic dance classes. Great to have you with us guys, hope to see you again soon.

If you fancy coming to learn garment construction yourself, whatever your reason, the course starts up again January. Have a look at the dates here, we’d love to have you.

Autumn/Winter Program Dates

The dates for our Autumn/Winter program are now up, starting from the first week in September. 

Our last Programme was a complete success, with some very talented and bright students graduating with a whole new set of skills.

Our Fashion Skills Programme is a complete schedule of Garment Construction, Pattern Cutting, Fashion illustration, Design and Business; everything you need to get skilled and get ahead in the fashion industry.

We run the Programme in options of daytime or evening, to suit your needs and fit around your schedule, and all classes are taught by experienced, professional tutors. 

We run each topic separately, to make it easier for you to gain the skills you want. For more information on the programme and for dates, see our website, and check out our previous students, and what they have said about us.

Fashion Skills Programme Graduates!

We had a lovely time with our first group of students on our Fashion Skills Training Programme, a very dedicated and bright bunch of students, great fun to work with, and we cant wait to see what they create with their new found skills. 

Best of luck sewing guys!

 

We hope to see you all again soon! 

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.

Fashion Skills Programme

See our website for further information

A complete programme of professional fashion skills, from pattern cutting and garment construction to fashion design and business skills.

Fashion Skills Training Programme

We're now in full swing with our new fashion skills training programme here at Fashion Antidote.

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 our current students are flying through, finishing next week

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. 

Looking for something less extensive? 
Simply want to learn to sew? Have a peek at our popular Learn To Sew classes. Running throughout the week including evenings and weekends they are flexible, affordable and fun.

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.