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The Fashion Design Workshop presents Textile Design by Color Removal
Special Workshop!!!
Friday, February 9, 2024 in collaboration with The Foundry Buffalo 298 Northampton Street, Buffalo NY 14208. Explore textile design in reverse! Use a bleaching agent and a neutralizer to play from 6-8:30 pm on a variety of fabrics to create new fabrics that can then be used for another project of embellishment, couture, or simply as is. Sign up to express yourself with Good Clean Fun! Promocode: FoundryFashion
The Nantucket Fashion Workshop for New Designers
Find your place in the world of design. Discover clarity and confidence as you reflect on the depth of your abilities, strengths, and passions to create and develop your presentation portfolio. You’ll work with a Paris-Trained Designer and be guided by a Master Life Coach to identify and enhance your unique gifts, and position yourself for your future.
The Fashion Design Workshop for Weavers
Bring your beautifully crafted handwoven yardage, learn the basic skills of fashion design from a Paris-trained designer with 25 years teaching experience to create a portfolio of exquisitely viable ideas for your specific weavings as well as innovations for future projects.
The French Immersion Fashion Workshop
Passer une semaine baignée en langue française et histoire de la mode; profiter d’être inspiré auprès d’une styliste formée à Paris ayant 25 ans d’expérience en enseignment de langue et de mode. Tout en vous amusant, vous allez améliorer votre maîtrise du français, et en collaborant créer un dossier unique reflétant votre vision et votre voix.
The Adirondack Fashion Workshop
Spend a week creating slow fashion in the Adirondack Park, looking closely at and interacting with nature’s wild perfection. Share inspiration and explore ideas with varied tools of the design world, improving depth of abilities and finding satisfaction through a tangible channel for your creativity.
The Paris Fashion Workshop
Collaborate, explore and design in the City of Lights amid traditional and ‘fashion’ tourism. Eat, sleep, and drink Paris’ glorious past while living today’s bustle to inspire your fashion sophistication and possibilities. Create a collection where everything old is new again, cleverly reinvented, reimagined and captivating.
The Collepetrana Fashion Workshop
Glimpse fashion from Antiquity to the latest impeccable collections. Live locally in the Abruzzo where every vista is magnificent, every moment breathtaking and every espresso spot on. Take inspiration from all around to create a dazzling collection portfolio to reflect your place in the world of design.
Let Your Creativity Flow!
Define fashion by your own creative process and design skills
The Fashion Design Workshop for Plus Size Women
Have you had it with off-the-rack shopping? Do you wish to create your own vision of style? Spend a week with an experienced Paris-trained designer and coach, acquire the skills to create a collection portfolio to reflect your voice and vision, then learn the basics to comfortably and confidently fashion wearable pieces just for you. There is a focus on upcycling but also designing and transforming patterns.
Take it Out of the Box! Meet your Machine and handle it!
Join the ranks to unpack and learn what sewing machines and sergers can do for you! Piece by piece, step by step, acquire the skills to understand and control the components. Take your skills home, play, then come back for more to expand your competence. Experienced, enthusiastic instructor cuts through the confusion to get you moving forward in your creative process. You will soon be flying your own ideas! Join the Sewing Coalition for regular sessions
Sundries & Small Projects
Create fine art and design sustainable projects in a range of mixed media from textiles to sculpture, collage, housewares, embroidery, felting, spinning and dying; explore glass and tile mosaics to sculpture, decor and lightcatchers; play with paper from books to coverings, to organizers; amuse yourself with paint and pigment from still life to plein air painting, paper design or mandalas. All are forms of expression that bring to light mindful introspection with no experience necessary.
From your eye to your heart to your brain to your hand, for your own vision.
What we’ll do…
Each day, participate in two 2-hour workshop sessions focusing on incremental design elements in the fashion industry, share meals, tour traditional sights as well as explore fashion tourism with ample free time to expand, discover, reflect, relax, play, connect and socialize. Create or enhance a finished portfolio in your voice and vision to reflect the passion, depth of ability, strengths and clarity of purpose to move forward in the world of design or for your own self-actualization.
Fashion & Design
Apparel, accessories, dimension, line, proportion, balance, unity, perspective, detail, rhythm, drawing, and painting are necessary elements as well as skill sets to inspire originality, imagination and creative possibility.
Textiles and Fine Arts
Truly the basis of clothing’s voice, Textiles and the Arts inspire, uncover, charm and amplify it. Investigate and play with color, form, pattern, texture, repeats, resist, depth and perspective so that your designs sing.
History and Fashion
Let history inspire, captivate, renew and delight you. Seek to understand the truth within it; pay homage and respect to those whose intellectual property has come before, in lines and detail that have endured to stand the test of time.
The Creative Process
Look to see, train your eye to notice, to discern, to connect and compare. Participate fully to renew wonder, whimsy, and charm; weave the inventiveness of a truly creative experience into your art and creations.
Catherine Lochtefeld Sirianni
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What knowledge should a fashion designer have?
A fashion designer should understand techniques to express unity, balance, proportion, emphasis and rhythm and work to strengthen supporting skills on a daily basis. Like languages, if you don’t use it, you lose it. As well, a designer must find ways to keep creativity awake and alive. This can be learned and practiced much like mindfulness.
What is the greatest challenge for a designer?
Clothes can be practical, and fashion can be art. The sweet spot is where the two meet. Practical, fun, appealing, innovative, clever, exclusive, exceptional, distinctive, matchless, irreplaceable wearable works of art are what each figurine sketch dreams to be.
Why is culture so important in fashion?
Culture is the development of a society, willing or not, like an onion with many-layered core at times with independent secondary or tertiary bits. A timeline as well, a sine curve repeating itself; the exposure to other cultures affects and changes the flavor and taste in continuum, and people, born naked, need clothes.
Are fashion designers artists?
Yes. Through and through. Problemsolvers, connectors, truthtellers, everchanging, lovers of the world.
Choose a workshop and apply.
Due to the limited number of places available per workshop travel venues and the logistics to assure the best dynamic, there is a $75 application fee. If the desired workshop reaches capacity, the applicant is placed on a waiting list. Once accepted the fee will be applied to the cost of the workshop. If not accepted the fee will be refunded or apply to another.
