Concept Board

To begin this semester off in Advanced Apparel we had to create a concept board. A concept board is a collection of ideas from different sources that inspire you. I learned that an acceptable concept board has 3 dimensional ideas placed on it such as fabrics, beads, flowers,, or anything else that you have been inspired by. For my line of clothing this semester, I have decided to design a line of dressy athletic wear...kinda odd i know, but it works. I was inspired by my own life. I work out, or am on the go all the time and wanted to design clothes that could suit someones busy lifestyle. I wanted the garments not only to be comfy, but also chic at the same time. The color pallet I chose is royal purple, coral, dark grey, and black. The garments are going to be lined to give the fabric more body. However, they will still have enough drape to give a more relaxed look. I am definitely hoping they turn out the way I want them to! Keep your fingers crossed! :)

New Semester, New Projects

HELLO 2011. This semester I am taking a bunch of awesome classes: Advanced Apparel, Fashion Practicum, History of Fashion, and a Media software class, just to name a few. In Advanced Apparel I will be designing a line of clothing and constructing the garments. For two of the pieces I will use patterns and alter them some, and the 3rd piece I will use a software on the computer to generate a pattern that I create. I have already begun making my design concept board, which will hopefully turn out to be pretty cool:) I'm not going to say what I'm making yet, but once I put a picture of my concept board up, you will know. In Fashion Practicum we will be learning how to open and run our own business. It's more of a participation class. We will come up with what we want to carry in our stores, learn how to fund our business, plan the opening assortment, develop a marketing plan, and create a visual merchandising plan. The best part about this class is that at the end of March, our class will fly to the Atlanta Apparel Market where we will get to spend time talking to different vendors and work on our "business" at the same time. We also get to shop at the different booths at wholesale prices!!! Definitely something I want to do:) History of Fashion basically explains itself. I will learn about the changing of fashion from way back to when to the present. Although this class will involve a bunch of history and memorizing, hopefully it won't be too bad. Anyways, that's a summary of what my semester is going to look like this spring. Once I get started on my projects, I will post pictures!