Category: fashion jobs
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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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Tips about Contracts and your [successful] Couture Business
As a business operator, and yes this includes artists, dressmakers, couturiers and tailors, we all use contracts, everyone should be aware of and know what a legally binding contract is. Very few creative types like to talk about them, and like even less to think about them until something goes wrong. The purpose of designing…
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Tools of the trade
We all love the latest in gadgetry or digital technology which most of us want to possess even if we don’t actually use! If you’ve ever observed an artist or trades person using their tools at work, you’ll have noticed that the tools are very simple or very special but, very well used. Painters use…
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Pattern cutting, pattern making, pattern engineering.
Whatever you call it, is interpreting a design with an eye for detail, making pattern templates used to cut the cloth before any construction can begin. We often get approached by outside students of fashion and designers alike asking for theses pattern making skills. We still draft patterns by hand at Ecole Holt Couture, an…
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EHC ‘How to sew’ video series
EHC has added a new web page called ‘Couture Sewing Tips and Secrets’ featuring a video series on ‘how to sew’ basics and tidbits of useful information about professional Couture and Tailoring. We’ve had great feedback to date on the ‘how to thread a needle with one, two and three strands of thread’ and ‘how…
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EHC – Couture requires specialized skills
The survey says: To meet needs of growth trends for custom work and alterations,in businesses surveyed – 56% required expert hand sewing skills, 33% custom pattern making skills, 89% custom fitting skills, 56% customer service skills, 33% required Design and styling skills, and only 22% need machinist skills. What does that mean? These businesses are…
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EHC – Couture is on the Increase
A labor market survey was conducted in June 2012, by Ecole Holt Couture, for the purpose of collecting current prime source information from the fashion industry regarding dressmaking, tailoring, couture, and fashion design jobs in Alberta. The questions asked were concerning industry growth trends, proof of job market, barriers or problems to employment, time estimations…
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Couturiers and Tailors Jobs!
EHC is training Couturiers and Tailors – specialists in fashion production According to a 2011 Canadian Labour Market Information Study, prepared by Milstein & Co Consulting Inc for Apparel Human Resources Council in March 2011: The (Canadian) apparel industry could require possibly as many as 7,000 trained production personnel in the next 18 to 24…
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