Fashion Designer Course Year 2, Day 11
Fashion Designer Course
Year 2, Day 11
This was November 30, 2007.
Back in class, we got some interesting information. The school in Aalst went to a local company that makes "passementerie" (trimmings, basically ribbon). And this book passed through my hands: Femme Fashion: 1780-2004. Very interesting, and definately good to go on my wish list.
Andrea then did her piece on Anita Evenepoel and Viktor & Rolf.
Anita Evenepoel is a local, Antwerp fashion designer, who works with a veriety of interesting fabrics (including rubber).
More info: http://www.pretapartir.be/ and http://www.zuper.com/portfolio/vizodka/texts/evenepoel.html.
Viktor & Rolf is a couple of Dutch designers, who work together.
Our teacher talked about Elsa Schiaparella. She learned to make clothes for herself, because she did not have any money, and when people liked her designs, she got commissioned to make a series of gowns (which she got encourage to do by Paul Poiret). She then starts to make sweaters with trompe l'oeil and art deco designs. She also makes her own perfume (well, a gigantic collection of perfumes). She opened a shop at the Place de la Vendôme in Paris, the most expensive place to have a shop in Paris. The shop still exists, and sells perfume, scarfs and purses. Schiaparelli is the first who used a zipper (Oh, le shock!) in haute couture.
Then we continued with the class task a little bit, which was my chance to see how it had progressed.
Year 2, Day 11
This was November 30, 2007.
Back in class, we got some interesting information. The school in Aalst went to a local company that makes "passementerie" (trimmings, basically ribbon). And this book passed through my hands: Femme Fashion: 1780-2004. Very interesting, and definately good to go on my wish list.
Andrea then did her piece on Anita Evenepoel and Viktor & Rolf.
Anita Evenepoel is a local, Antwerp fashion designer, who works with a veriety of interesting fabrics (including rubber).
More info: http://www.pretapartir.be/ and http://www.zuper.com/portfolio/vizodka/texts/evenepoel.html.
Viktor & Rolf is a couple of Dutch designers, who work together.
Our teacher talked about Elsa Schiaparella. She learned to make clothes for herself, because she did not have any money, and when people liked her designs, she got commissioned to make a series of gowns (which she got encourage to do by Paul Poiret). She then starts to make sweaters with trompe l'oeil and art deco designs. She also makes her own perfume (well, a gigantic collection of perfumes). She opened a shop at the Place de la Vendôme in Paris, the most expensive place to have a shop in Paris. The shop still exists, and sells perfume, scarfs and purses. Schiaparelli is the first who used a zipper (Oh, le shock!) in haute couture.
Then we continued with the class task a little bit, which was my chance to see how it had progressed.