Tag: dress code
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My Best Friend’s Closet!
Ecole Holt Couture School of Couture Sewing and Design students and staff visited their community partners Making Changes Association of Alberta in Calgary on Wednesday – an organization that works with around 100 agencies in and round the city that refer clients to MCA, who wish to re-enter the workforce and need employment and life…
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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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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…
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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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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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