Week 14

19,20.21,22,23

During this week we had another tutorial, the tutorials are extremely beneficial and help me a lot with my project, I am really enjoying the Sport Vs Fashion project, I have decided to collaborate with K-Swiss as they have a very small collection of women’s attire and I feel my designs will bring a new style to there collection. I have decided to design and make a jumpsuit getting inspiration from the sport tennis and the Yves Saint Laurent collection.

We had the Presentations of the Fashion Capitals which I found very useful as I learnt a lot of new things about each country, we chose Paris and i researched the designers.

We started Lectra computer Pattern cutting Last week and I am enjoying learning the techniques and skills it involves, it can be confusing but I’m sure after time I will get the hang of it.

Presentation:

-Here is some of the information from the presention on paris:

French Designers

Yves Saint Laurent...”The King of Fashion”

•Yves Saint Laurent was a French fashion designer who was considered one of the greatest figures in French fashion in the 20th century..
•"The most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years, Yves Saint Laurent can be credited with both spurring the couture's rise from its sixties ashes and with finally rendering ready-to-wear reputable".
•Yves Saint Laurent, who retired in 2002, changed the way women dressed when he launched his label in 1962. He put them in mannish pant-suits with square shoulders, smoking jackets, safari jackets, and tuxedos, but softened the androgyny with billowy peasant blouses and fitted, flouncy couture gowns in dramatic colours.
•New designer Stefano Pilati is bringing it all back home, returning to those YSL classics and making.
•The Past and the PresentIn 1954, Saint Laurent went immediately to work for Christian Dior. Saint Laurent became Haute Couture designer when Dior died in 1957.

Chanel

• "Coco" Chanel has signed new designs and revolutionized the fashion industry by going "back to basics", incorporating elegance, class, and originality.
• Under her tight reign from 1909-1971, Coco Chanel held the title as ‘Chief Designer’ until her death on January 10.
• In 1983, Lagerfeld took over as chief designer for Chanel.
• He changed Chanel's fashion lines from the old lines to shorter cuts and eye capturing designs.
• During the 1980s, more than 40 Chanel boutiques were opened up worldwide.
• Coco Chanel revolutionized haute couture fashion by replacing the traditional corseted silhouette with the comfort of simple suits and long, lean dresses.
• The years of the 1920s and 1930s will best be remembered as the era of Coco whose simpler lines of women's couture led to the popular "flat-chested" look of the 1920s.
• Her clothing was relaxed and changed the way women dressed for outdoor leisure.
• Coco omitted corsets, liberating women and creating more comfort. Contemporary Fashion states, "She dressed the modern woman in clothes for a lifestyle.“
• Coco is credited for making jersey (a soft elasticated knit used for undergarments) a new fashion fabric. Her jersey dresses in navy and gray were cut to flatter the figure rather than to emphasize and distort the natural body shape.

Louis Vuitton

• Is sometimes shortened to LV, it is a luxury fashion and leather goods brand and company.
• Known especially for bags and trunks, the company collaborates with prominent figures for marketing and design (most notably supermodel Gisele Bündchen and fashion designer Marc Jacobs).
• Internationally renowned and highly regarded for name recognition in the fashion world, as a result LV has become one of the most counterfeited contemporary luxury brands.

I really enjoyed researching into french fashion designers and feel i have gained a lot of knowledge from it.