London Fashion Courses!

NEW DATES ADDED!

Looking for London Fashion Courses this September?

 

We've got lots of skill focussed fashion courses starting soon! Learn to sew, make clothes, draw fashion illustrations, design a collection or become a master pattern maker!

Join us in September for the start of our Professional Skills course in Garment Construction and Pattern Cutting.

These courses are ideal for beginners, and are designed to take you from beginner, through intermediate and onto some expert skills in making garments and creating patterns.

Learn...

PATTERN CUTTING

GARMENT CONSTRUCTION

FASHION DESIGN

FASHION BUSINESS 

 

East London Vintage Tour – Make a Vintage Skirt

Being based in Brick Lane means that we're lucky enough to be surrounded by an eclectic mix of boutiques, bars, restaurants, amazing Indian food and of course, lots of far too tempting vintage stores...

To make the most of this, we're adapting our Make a skirt course to include a trip down Brick Lane to see some of the best vintage stores, get inspired and maybe buy some vintage fabric, and then we'll head back to our studio to make your own retro inspired pencil skirt. Shopping and sewing - not a bad way to spend the day in London!

Itinerary
We will start the day with a get together in the studio to give you the low down of what’s in store for the day. We will then set out for our tour of Brick Lane where you can experience the sights and sounds of one of London’s hippest streets.

We will visit the many retro stores and places of interest including Rokit, This Shop Rocks, London’s first vintage department store Blitz and “The Shop” where there will be a chance to purchase vintage fabrics. Back in the studio you will cut out and make a simple pencil skirt in either you purchased fabric or a fabric of your choice.

You must be able to sew and have made at least one garment before to join the course.

By 4pm you will then be ready to head home with a newly made skirt and vintage finds or maybe head off to one of the many bars or restaurants in the area.

Dates and times:
Thursday 15th November
Saturday 24th November
Saturday 8th December
Thursday 20th January
Saturday 30th January

10am to 4pm 6 hours including lunch break
Price £100

Minimum numbers of participants for each date are 5 and maximum are 10. Please call 02073753235 to book this exclusive course!

How to make a simple dress

Our 3rd June 'Make a Simple Dress' course is now fully booked, looking forward to meeting you all then!

This course is proving more and more popular, and we're adding new dates all the time, but we want to to know what days suit you guys best, so drop us a line, tweet or facebook message to let us know whether you'd rather have more courses in the daytime, evening or weekend.

In the meantime here's our latest course dates for the simple dress course:

Friday May 25th

Friday June 8th

Saturday June 30th

Sunday July 22nd

see here to book your place now

For our many other garment construction courses, including tshirts and stretch fabrics, pencil skirt, and trousers, see our website here. 

Daytime courses for busy mums and dads

Daytime learn to sew courses

Beginners sewing courses running in the daytime, designed to fit around the school run. Industry experienced teachers, small, informal and friendly classes and an excellent level of tuition, all you need to get sewing either for yourself, your family or for business.

Learn To Sew

Our daytime learn to sew courses teach you all you need to know to get sewing and understand your sewing machine. We over all the basics and essential sewing skills, including basic stitches, how make a variety of seams and sew curves and corners. Learn about the machine parts and the up keep of the machine, about using the correct needles and threads, and how to thread the machine correctly and adjust the tension.

You will sew darts, insert zips, attach waistbands and facings, make gathers and frills and learn how to hem and finish a garment and how to make a button hole. You will also learn how to choose a commercial pattern, lay a pattern on fabric and cut out and mark, ready to sew.

DAY TIME

10.30am - 1pm   4 weeks 10 hours 

Friday 18^th May – Friday 8^th June

Friday June 1^st – 22nd

Price £175 inclusive of materials

The course also runs as a one-day intensive course. This course includes all the same essential sewing skills, in one 6 hour session. We recommend the 4 week course if you would like time to practice inbetween and pace yourself, and the intensive course if you would rather get all the skills in one go. Perfect for packed schedules, it runs in daytime and weekend options.

1 day intensive DAY TIME

10.30am – 4.30pm. 1 day 6 hours including break

Wedesday 23rd May

Friday 1^st June

Wednesday 20^th June

Saturday 23^rd June

Price £95 includes materials

1 day intensive WEEKEND

10.30am – 4.30pm. 1 day 6 hours including break

Sunday 13^th May

Sunday 10^th June

Sunday 24^th June

Saturday 14^th July

Price £95 includes materials

Clothing Alterations and Customising 23rd May

Learn the skills to get the perfect fit from all your vintage finds, charity shop bargains and mums amazing hand me downs. A great way to save money and prolong the life of your clothing, this course will give you all the basic skills to alter or repair your clothes.

Learn how to how to take up or let down hems to lengthen or shorten a garment and how let out or take in seams to fit. You will also learn how to replace broken zips in skirts, trousers or jeans.

Bring your alterations with you to the class to work on, 3 to 4 garments. You should be able to wind a bobbin, thread the machine and sew simple seams to this class.

Price: £45.00

Availability: 5 places left

Wednesday, May 23^rd

Time: 18:00 - 21:00

Duration Details: 1 evening, 3 hours

Learn to Sew and Make Tshirts

The Trusty T-Shirt!

Make a t-shirt for every shape and style

Its been reinvented a million times and no wardrobe is complete without it; the t-shirt, an essential fashion item.

Stretch fabrics can be tricky though, and this class teaches you all the adjustments to be made to the machine such as how to adjust the sewing machine, select the correct tension, stitch length, needles and thread. It will introduce you to the overlocker and and how to use it to get the best results when sewing stretch fabrics. You will practice sewing seams and attaching necklines and ribbing, and then cut and make a simple T- shirt. 

We get all shapes sizes, ages and styles in our classes, and the t-shirt is the perfect versatile garment for everyone to learn to make, and to make their own.

If you want to learn to make t-shirts check out the website here to book your place, or call us on 0207 375 3235

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 

Garment Construction & Dressmaking in London - Make a Spring Dress

Despite the current below zero temperatures and flurries of snow, Spring is just around the corner, and what better to add to your new season wardrobe than a little spring dress. 

 Learn to make a classic shape dress in our Make a Spring Dress class at our cozy Brick Lane studio. Choose from 2 silhouettes and learn essential garment making skills such as how to sew seams and darts, make tucks, insert a concealed zip, attach a lining and hem. You will press and finish your dress ready to wear and be given the pattern to take home with you. All equipment and materials is provided, you just need to bring along the fabric to make your dress in. Why not this seasons must have pastel, or a bright clashing print?

Fashion Design for the Catwalk - with Alternative Fashion Week

Want a resolution you can stick to? Come and learn with Fashion Antidote.

NEW SKILLS FOR THE NEW YEAR

We know how it is. With Christmas fast on the approach, everything else gets left on the backburner. Yoga classes can wait, scrap the pricey no-carb-only-green-and-eco eating regime and don’t even think about that recycling pledge. The pressures of Christmas can be a bit daunting, and tend to take over our lives at this time of year. The result of which is a rather jolly, indulgent few days, but inevitably a rather slimmer bank balance, slightly tighter belt and that vague air of guilt over what we’ve forgotten or neglected.

And the appropriate solution to this post-Christmas slump is full set of sturdy New Years Resolutions, thought up with the best intentions, but all too soon forgotten as life gets in the way. 

So how about a resolution that you can stick to. Something that will not only take the sting out of the after Christmas guilt but also provide you with lifelong skills and a new talent, maybe to help further your career, to get ahead at uni, to start your own business, or even save you a few pennies.

 

Come to Fashion Antidote and learn to sew. Save money by learning to make alterations, or make your ownclothes, and unleash your creativity on your wardrobe. If you’re after a career in fashion we have professional level technical courses in Pattern Cutting, Garment Construction, Styling, Design and Business. Add these skills to your CV and get that job, or progress from an amateur dressmaker to having your own small fashion business.

 Want a resolution you can stick to? Come and learn with Fashion Antidote.

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.

Sewing skills all the way to the Antarctic

At Fashion Antidote we pride ourselves on being able to provide bespoke teaching programmes and training courses. As in independent sewing school, we can tailor make our courses to all sorts of peculiar requests and specific needs, and one such request came recently from the British Antarctic Survey. 

Sanna Kallio - Antarctic Field Assistant

 They sent 4 of their intrepid explorers over to our Heneage Street studio to brush up on their sewing skills, and we put together a course especially for them focusing on all the techniques they’d need to maintain and repair their tents whilst out on expeditions.Working with Sally Henry from their Human Resources team, we helped get them prepared for keeping cosy and safe down in the cold. The session included zips, hems, rips and tears and reinforcement. 

It was great to have them in the studio and to be able to teach them practical skills that will help them as field assistants in the Antarctic, best of luck out there guys!

Calling All Vintage Lovers...

Fancy a spot of sewing, and a vintage forray into East London, armed with all the expertise and know-how of a vintage expert? 

Roam the unbeatable selection of vintage and retro shops and markets Spitalfields and brick Lane has to offer with our vintage fashion expert as your tour guide, and then head back to our nearby studio to learn how to make your own vintage inspired garments. 

Over the two days shop, sight see, stitch and sew to make a beautiful dress ready to wear and take home. 

The perfect retro weekend, great as a gift especially with christmas just round the corner!

To book, and for more info check out the website.

Great new shape - Make a Pencil Skirt

The pencil skirt is in this season  - classy and feminine, all very 40's - and we've worked in a special pencil skirt class to our garment construction courses to keep your sewing projects bang on trend. 

Our make a pencil skirt class will show you how to use a commercial pattern, lay, mark and pin pattern to fabric and cut out. You will sew seams and darts insert a lapped zip, attach a waistband, make and attach a lining, hem and press and finish your skirt ready to wear. This workshop is a good follow on from our learn to sew courses and enables you to put your newly learnt skills into practice. Learn some life long skills and leave with a beautiful pencil skirt.

Fresh New Courses

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.

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.

Fresh New Courses

DO YOU WANT TO LEARN A NEW SKILL?

We've got lots of new dates and courses up on the website, everything from sewing skills to business classes. 

 

We've got new Garment Construction dates; pop into our studio to learn to make a skirt, dress or shirt from a commercial pattern. We've also made a new Bring your own project class; come and use our studio and top facilities, including cutting tables, machines, over lockers and mannequins and get some experienced help with a tricky project.

There are lots more, check out the website for a full listing, and we're also on HotCourses.

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!