Ecole Holt Couture – School of Couture Sewing & Design

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  • Ecole Holt Couture – Can we help you?

    Do any of these predicaments resonate with you? Being an ardent admirer of authentic haute couture and while you attend vintage haute couture exhibits, the displays make your mouth water and your heart leap to just witness the artform with its high level of craftsmanship, ‘they look so perfect, no one can do that anymore!’ […]

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    January 8, 2021
    Calgary, Couture, Ecole Holt Couture, fashion design, haute couture, pattern making, sewing machines, tailoring, Uncategorized
    couture sewing school, sewing school
  • The Perfect Couture Size, is it a ‘thing’?

    The perfect Couture size is a follow up from the EHC video: ‘This Thing About the Perfect Size‘. It explains what standard sizing is, why it was invented, and when it is required. But is has also become a marketing lure directed at label conscious or size snob buyers. For example, a size 0 suggests […]

    ecoleholtcouture

    December 2, 2020
    Couture, Ecole Holt Couture, haute couture, pattern making, sewing, tailoring, Uncategorized
    bespoke, Clothing sizes, couture made, Couture size
  • This thing about Size!

    Far too many girls, boys, young women and young men, indeed even mature women and men have been stressed out and victimized by this notion of attaining a perfect size. It is an impossible war to win. Why are people constantly on reducing diets, driven to physical exhaustion in fitness training, and stressing out about […]

    ecoleholtcouture

    November 30, 2020
    Uncategorized
    Clothing sizes
  • Indicators for success at Ecole Holt Couture

    It is important to know beforehand if the career you’ve chosen to invest the time and money in is the best one for you. This short video may help you to decide whether a career in Couture, Tailoring or Dressmaking is appealing to you and whether Ecole Holt Couture is the right school for you. […]

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    November 28, 2020
    Couture, Ecole Holt Couture, Ecole Holt Couture Enrolment, Fashion School, pattern making, sewing, tailoring
    couture school, couture sewing, sewing school
  • Is Ecole Holt Couture the right school for me?

    Is Ecole Holt Couture School of Couture Sewing and Design for you? I’ve been there, you know that point where you are frustrated because there is some piece of information you are missing, some skill that isn’t up to the standard you want it to be. You’ve got the ideas, the creativity, but you don’t […]

    ecoleholtcouture

    November 23, 2020
    Couture, Ecole Holt Couture, Ecole Holt Couture Enrolment, fashion design, Fashion School, pattern making, Uncategorized
    couture sewing school, how to sew like a pro, sewing school, tailoring school
  • Did you Know? at Ecole Holt Couture…

    Graduates at EHC receive their final awards for attending and completing 600 hours of instruction and 1800 [2400hrs] hours of practical [projects] lab-work for each of the Dressmaking and Couturier/Tailoring awards. EHC awards are printed with the graduate’s name, two official signatures, an EHC embossed seal, the date of issue, and possesses a unique serial […]

    ecoleholtcouture

    September 12, 2020
    bespoke tailoring, Couture, Ecole Holt Couture, pattern making, tailoring, Uncategorized
    couture sewing, couturier skills, dressmaking skills, learn how to sew, patterndrafting skills, tailoring skills
  • EHC – 8 part Project Video Series – Inside the Studio

    As we are making preparations to resume on-campus classes the beginning of September 2020, we wonder how it will all work out in the midst of physical distancing precautions, extra sanitising, and how to minimise time wearing a mandatory face mask during this Pandemic. We admit we don’t have it all figured out, and in […]

    ecoleholtcouture

    August 11, 2020
    Uncategorized
    couture sewing, garment alterations, sewing with lace, wedding dress alterations
  • Ecole Holt Couture COVID-19

    COVID-19 has certainly changed how we presented our final term for year one of the Certificate and Diploma program. Interactive online classes replaced on-campus classes for 10 weeks. We necessarily compressed two terms of theory into one term online instruction, deferring all practical instruction for the same two terms until the fall when we plan […]

    ecoleholtcouture

    June 8, 2020
    bespoke tailoring, Calgary, Couture, Ecole Holt Couture, Fashion, Fashion School, haute couture, sewing
    bespoke tailoring, Couture, couture sewing, COVID-19, dressmaking, Ecole Holt Couture, online learning, sewing, tailoring
  • 2019 Ecole Holt Couture Showcase Event!

    Sunday November 3rd is showtime! Every year Ecole Holt Couture supports and promotes is students by hosting a fashion event that includes a Student Exhibit with Reception and a Runway Show all within the price of the ticket. All this so that students can invite their family and friends to view and participate in their […]

    ecoleholtcouture

    October 22, 2019
    bespoke tailoring, Calgary, Couture, Ecole Holt Couture, events, Fashion, Fashion School, Fashion Shows, haute couture, pattern making, sewing, Uncategorized
    Couture, creativity, culture, design, dressmaking, fashion, learning, sewing, tailoring, women
  • Who is top couturier / tailor / designer today?

    Today our class reviewed the numerous talented individuals who brought dressmaking and sewing to a new and exclusive level labelled ‘haute couture’. From Charles Frederick Worth, who is noted to be the father of haute couture, and many other designer couturiers that have followed in the 100 years leading up to 2000 including Poiret and […]

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    January 18, 2019
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