Category: designer labels
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Couture and Watermelon salad…
One of the greatest pleasures at Ecole Holt Couture is celebrating well deserved credit for the tremendous effort and progress that EHC students have made since beginning in September 2017. This year we are between Graduation goal posts, so we decided that a class luncheon date would be very welcome. Bonterra Trattoria in Calgary’s belt…
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Happy New Year 2016!
We posted this one year ago, but still a good story to illustrate a point about the value of couture sewing skills…Happy 2016! I’ll leave this one with you as well: Without Craft, inspiration is a mere weed in the wind. Once upon a time there was a very rich man and his wife spending…
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Are you a Couturier, are you a Tailor?
Watching a video about makers of fine watches on the Isle of Man, they make every segment of these watches from scratch. It takes several months to create one. Only about a dozen are made each year – and yes they sell at £100,000.00. The present day master at Roger W. Smith, said he doesn’t…
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ECO GLAM – Save the Date! November 17th, 2013
Ecole Holt Couture – School of Couture Sewing Tailoring and Design’s 4th annual Fashion Event Fundraiser for Making Changes Association Calgary – ECO GLAM – is on Sunday November 17th, at the Calgary Winter Club from 1pm to 5pm. If you wonder how ecology and glamour could possibly synchronize, then you might want to see…
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What’s on your wardrobe menu!
What do you have in your wardrobe: ‘haute couture’, ‘ready-made’ and ‘home made’? Using the analogy of dining is a good comparison, because everyone understands it and enjoys food on a basic ‘need’ level all the way to a luxurious ‘connoisseur’ level in some way. Impulse buy garments made of synthetic or cheap fabric, plus…
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Act of Genius or Progressive Solution
This topic came up in class at EHC regarding ‘haute couture’, related to a newsletter article, and was worth looking into more closely. Are fashion designers born geniuses or is it a matter of learning? Designer Madeleine Vionett is considered to be a design genius for her bias cut methods, which was fundamentally different from…
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Calgary Herald feature article – Nov 15th, 2011
We had a whirlwind couple of days – Monday morning we had Jill Belland of Breakfast Television with us,if you want to see the video of the show with our segment click on the link or copy and paste the link into your URL bar because have not as of yet figured out how to…
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Smoke and Mirrors
Couture vs Labels: Couture Couture is not only about using quality fabrics, ingenuity of construction but also about the skilled workmanship involved to pull the design altogether. It is of little use to create an elaborate design, and not have the know-how to put it all together, or design something that simply cannot work. I’m…
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Silver lining in silk!
Come see Sarah Vann perform with Lisa Jacobs at Eleganza and enjoy the music of Los Morenos during the fashion show! Couture: What happens if the client changes her mind along the way about the design? It was a challenge to source the color for the wedding gown. The scheme for this wedding is mainly…
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featuring Eleganza Couture Fashion Show
Eleganza – Pattison Outdoor Advertising Calgary AB – visit www.couturecalgary.com Thank you Tania Lavoie – Pattison Outdoor Advertising Students of EHC will feature their latest couture projects along with vintage couture garments and new couture wedding gown at the event. Sponsors will be there supporting the event, relax and…
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