Tag: Calgary fashion
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Zulu Time Design
Everyone loves an Officer’s uniform, but what about Airline uniforms. Below: Our own Canadian Navy celebrated 100 years in May 2010 Victoria BC. All these men looked handsome – believe me – and there were hundreds of them! The women looked very smart as well. As a couturier, the things that strike me (in order)…
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Couturier Magic
One of the differences between a fashion designer and a couturier is that a designer may not be able to turn their creation into workable realities on their own without the help of the pattern maker, or have sufficient knowledge of fabrics and their properties along with respective technical structuring methods and skills. These other experts…
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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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Design patterns and fittings
An integral part of a couturier’s expertise involves the fitting of a garment properly. A good design may not necessarily be seen as a good design if it doesn’t fit properly and if it is unprofessionally finished. But almost everyone has come to accept ill-fitting clothing as being normal these days or is unaware of…
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Draft your own Patterns
Have you ever wondered how it is possible to draft you own pattern without copying or modifying a commercial pattern, must you use a wiz bang 1-2-3 step computer program? And how are patterns designed in the first place? Whether sold for home sewers, enthusiasts or hobbyists patterns are all first created by someone. Using…
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Fashion Week 2012
Citation from Couture in the 21st Century (book): “Dior has had the most profound influence on fashion history. You read about the New Look in school history books, which is a pretty rare thing for a fashion collection. He transformed the whole mind-set of women on how they wore clothes. They went from frugality and…
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1001 ways to wear jeans
Went to an exhibit opening last night which was professionally presented and obviously much effort was put in to make it an enjoyable experience. The executive director’s opening remarks, the background history by local eminent historian, and words from the curator and artist himself were so inspirational. Wine and hors d’oeuvres were served throughout the…
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Will the real Couture please stand up!
We were thrilled when EHC was recently invited to present the School’s programs and info about ‘Couture’ to fashion program instructors from the public and catholic school systems at the CTS Mini conference in Calgary this week. We had a great time – thank you to everyone who attended our one hour session and to…
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Dying Art? – Not!
The Business of Couture and Bespoke Tailoring There is a misconception that couturier’s do not tailor; that these skills are entirely separate and should not be spoken in the same breath. In truth, a well-trained professional in couture should be able to do both. The skills required are the same and a one needn’t have…
Ecole Holt Couture - School of Couture Sewing & Design 