Tag: Calgary fashion
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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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Snapshots: What EHC did this Year
EHC usually orders fabrics from select suppliers, but immediacy is lost so in September a field trip to Edmonton Alberta was first on the agenda for a ‘hands on’ shopping experience comparing and contrasting natural fibres with synthetic ones. Sadly, Sig Plach Couturier Fabrics, Retailer and wholesaler of quality European fabrics is closing its doors after…
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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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Happy Mother’s Day!
A call went out to the students at EHC for inspiration for this week’s weblog – they came back with the theme of Mother’s Day. Looking into the origins of this celebration I came across several versions of its history and its varying celebratory traditions. But, it is important just to recognize the contributions of…
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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…
Ecole Holt Couture - School of Couture Sewing & Design 