Tag: business
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Ecole Holt Couture | This could be for you!
Our version of ‘string theory’, tells the story of how being successful in couture and tailoring doesn’t just rely on prevailing external factors, but rather on the resources you own and engage – such as your trained mind and your hands. To explain why EHC’s teaching and mentoring method is focused on more than just…
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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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nOw tHaT’s C.L.A.S.S.
Hope that everyone had a great Victoria Day long weekend (here in Canada) for those not familiar with the May holiday – we have chosen to honor Queen Victoria and called it a holiday! An issue that is very close to EHC’s heart is the sustainability of what we are doing in the fashion world.…
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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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Fashion 101
One of the things we like to do at EHC, aside from collecting relevant resource material (books, magazines etc), is to comment on (aka ‘review’) what we feel to be useful information or important in reference to Couture in particular, and fashion design in general. Just having picked up a little book ‘101 Things I…
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