Tag: haute couture
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October 2022 Free EHC Pattern Drafting Tutorial now!
As promised, our one-time-only FREE pattern drafting Tutorial is now online with free access to viewing. The tutorial will be posted for a limited time, and until then you can view it online on Ecole Holt Couture’s YouTube channel at your leisure. It is a 96 minute, full-length feature how-to video, step-by-step instructional guide to…
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EHC – pattern drafting introduction.
October update! Just finished gathering into one single location a heap of original hand drafted patterns, that I created over the past 35 years from before and during my involvement with the school, of wedding gowns, various types of suits, costumes, and other furnishings. They were all hastily stuffed into drawers after the fact, but…
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August 2021 – Ecole Holt Couture about ‘ONE’
It seems like a long time ago, and yet just like yesterday, since Ecole Holt Couture hosted its first fashion event ‘ONE’, that so many wonderful creatives contributed to making it a success. We’ve hosted many fashion events over the years, with all our treasured volunteers and creative experts, whom without the events would never…
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We’ve reached the end of Term! Sort of.
We’ve reached the end of term, as well as the end of the 2019-2021 Certificate Program. Sort of. Because of the accumulation of Covid19 restrictions during the last 18 months, putting us a little behind schedule, we haven’t actually completed the term. So we will continue our classes for another couple of months with a…
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Couture and Watermelon salad…
One of the greatest pleasures at Ecole Holt Couture is celebrating well deserved credit for the tremendous effort and progress that EHC students have made since beginning in September 2017. This year we are between Graduation goal posts, so we decided that a class luncheon date would be very welcome. Bonterra Trattoria in Calgary’s belt…
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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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Happy New Year 2016!
We posted this one year ago, but still a good story to illustrate a point about the value of couture sewing skills…Happy 2016! I’ll leave this one with you as well: Without Craft, inspiration is a mere weed in the wind. Once upon a time there was a very rich man and his wife spending…
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Questions, questions and more questions at Ecole Holt Couture!
After being on a blog hiatus for a bit, we thought that we would start our blog back up in September 2015 with what we do with student’s questions, and we encourage our students at École Holt Couture – School of Couture Fashion Sewing and Design to ask lots and lots of questions. After all,…
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Tuesday March 31st, 2015 – Back to class
We’ve just left two weeks of Spring break behind us. Well, it wasn’t so much a break as quiet work-time to catch up for most of us here, and part one of the final Certificate exam is being written today. The programs are pretty intense, and if you do get behind even for one or…
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