Category: tailoring
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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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Ecole Holt Couture 2017 Graduation
Graduation Ceremonies for 2017 is almost upon us, and we’ll be celebrating four more talented and now skills trained Artisans in the art of Couture sewing and Tailoring. They’ve put in many hours of work and effort in anticipation of doing something they love, with the knowledge – and some great experience behind them, that […]
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Ecole Holt Couture Fashion Event 2016 Video
Published on Dec 30, 2016 Ecole Holt Couture students feature their current project work on the runway each year. This year, the event opened with an exhibit in Festival Hall foyer, curated by Ian Rogan with the assistance of Cassandra Cummings, featuring the students and their work in progress up-close interacting with the guests before […]
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Couture | Fashion & Philanthropy
It’s important to give back to the community and Ecole Holt Couture is fortunate to do this while sharing the art of couture and the work of our students in support of InspireProjectYYC. This is the first year the event will benefit new-kid-on-the-block INSPIRE Project YYC. Started in 2012, by a group of Calgarian creatives, […]
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EHC Couture Sewing Workshop in Haines Junction, Yukon – Canadian North
What an amazing experience! Ecole Holt Couture was invited to present a couture sewing workshop in Haines Junction, Yukon in August 2016. If you’re like me, you’re wondering where this place is and what is it all about. And so, I did some research to answer these two initial questions. Haines Junction, Yukon – not […]
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Ecole Holt Couture is taking summer break, but gearing up for the Fall already!
Hi there! Ecole Holt Couture is on summer break, but not all of us are on vacation just yet! The classes are over for now but the students still have a couple or three weeks to finish up their projects. And even though we are winding down from the year, we are gearing up for […]
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Ecole Holt Couture Information Seminar
Ecole Holt Couture will be hosting its Information Seminar for those interested in enrolling, on Thursday April 14th from 7 to 9 pm. You must register for this free information seminar by email: info@ecoleholtcouture.com *Registration deadline date for the seminar closes Monday April 11th. [due to limited spaces available EHC reserves the right to reschedule […]
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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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Questions, questions and more questions at Ecole Holt Couture!
After being on a blog hiatus for a bit, we thought that we would start our blog back up in September 2015 with what we do with student’s questions, and we encourage our students at École Holt Couture – School of Couture Fashion Sewing and Design to ask lots and lots of questions. After all, […]
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What it takes at Ecole Holt Couture School of Couture Sewing and Design
As the committee is now starting to review applications for 2015, it may be helpful to know what is expected of students at Ecole Holt Couture School of Couture Sewing and Design. One of the first questions that instructors of fashion programs in high school put to us in regard to recommending various fashion schools […]
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