Category: stylists
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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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6 Tips for a great fit. Lesson #1.
Does a ‘great fit’ or ‘perfect fit’ leave you wondering what that really means in terms of your clothes? These days with most everything being ‘off the rack’ ‘ready to wear’ or ‘prêt-à-porter’ you may not be aware that your clothes don’t actually fit well at all. Even when special items are ‘custom made’ ‘made…
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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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Perfect Parka Design
What is your perfect design? It is amazing to me that every EHC student knows exactly what they want in designing and creating a Parka and Windbreaker, which are required projects in 2nd Year, Term 5, at EHC. But when it comes to other garments such as dresses and suits, they are very much more…
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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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The tailor makes the Man
The 3rd year students at EHC are studying men’s tailoring in this Term, and have been introduced to the styles and protocols of what and how to dress men appropriately; the importance of which can not be overstated for future tailors. Where did all these rules come from? As the curator at the Lougheed House…
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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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Calgary Spring War-drab
This Photo captured by video in Banff National Park on March 28, 2012 even Lynx is looking for Spring… An interesting time of year Spring, when one starts to experience symptoms of cabin fever and the longing to just get outside in the sunshine and warming fresh air. Here in Calgary Spring really doesn’t exist…
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