Monday, December 7, 2015

REDACCION CREATIVA



HOW TO DO ILLUSTRATIONS




DRAWING FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS 




To create an illustration using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator you need a scanner, digital tablet, and of course the programs.

First of all you draw a design, this could be a women dressed. You scan this draw. Then import this design from the scanner to the program Photoshop.

To clean your hand draw design from the scanner to the software you must do:
Menu – Image – Adjustment – Levels.

With that you must adjust the level black and white of the draw to clean the image.
It is convenient to scan your illustration in color mode then you must change to gray scale, that is Menu – Image – Mode – Grayscale.

So you have the illustration in black and white.

Go to the layers and include a new layer above which color must be white so that when you erase the illustration to delimit the lines of the draw, you can clean it totally.

Then the illustration is clean and ready to be colored.

To add color you must create layers with each part of the draw.
For example: the skin color is in a layer which is relevant to be name.
The hair also must have its own layer with the name hair.
And so on.

Go to the original design layer and defined the lines.

Use the tool bucket to color the image.
You can scan a fabric or import from the internet.
You must reduce noise, that is important to have a perfect fabric to use for create the texture and pattern you prefer.
You can bring to the illustration with a brush with low opacity and low flow shadows which do the effect more realistic.

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

REDACCION CREATIVA FENOMENO MODA



MEDICAL HELP WITH FASHION FABRICS
 
  
The uses of technology in our daily lives are being helped through technological fashion for disease control and health-related situations. 

Fabrics could help with health care, self care and wellness practices for people that use those kinds of technological fabrics. When they were prescribed compression sleeves for treating lymphedema for women were impressed by the hot, rough material beige color, like a band, and thus was born a mission to help women using sleeves comfortable, in fashion colors and many patterns.

Monday, November 23, 2015

TECHNICAL SKETCH

LEATHER JACKET DESIGN



REDACCIÓN CREATIVA SOBRE EL FENÓMENO MODA





DRAPING

 



COULD BE SAID THAT DRAPING FABRICS ON A BODY OR MANNEQUIN IS WHAT VIVIENNE WESTWOOD SAID “LEARN ACTING”.

Draping must also have to do with creating ideas directly on a mannequin. Draping is a technique that has been used since a long time in the past.

As John Galliano said “It is basically related to engineering, rather than anything else. It's about finding the limits of what is possible to drape fabric body. Everything evolves. Nothing strictly defined."

The great dressmakers of the history use that technique to create different silhouettes. It could be describe as a process similar to sculpt the body with fabric.

Who do they create those silhouettes? Creating volume. Then we have that to create a volume in fashion have to be excess of fabric on the garment.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

EL FENÓMENO MODA

STREET STYLE 









Street Style literally translates into English: street style. But in the case of the fashion world is used to describe a type of photos and blogs. Street Style are photos taken spontaneously to the styles that anonymous, fashion experts and it girls, take down the street. It is also well known to those skilled in this type of photo blogs.


We are participants in a globalized era that has been called era of the image, highly stimulated by the information rate at which impels Web 2.0, and witness called democratization of fashion, the phenomenon of street style consolidates and collects increasingly more important. The boom of street style blogs exploded a few years ago, practically when the fashion press seized the coolhunter term, which if well connected, do not designate the same. Thus, clothing is just one manifestation or a trend analyst coolhunter be interpreted to interfere analysis on any particular issue. The global branding and homogenization of products and the possible loss of identity that this leads to fever photograph styling to an identity crisis.

Monday, November 9, 2015

AVANCES EN LA TECNOLOGÍA DEL MUNDO DE LA MODA




Textiles are known as a secondary research. Through out the history of textiles, certain patterns and fabrics have been repeated.

It is interesting to take a classic textile design and look at what makes it so timeless, their try to reinvent it.

Viscose rayon was a popular fabric of the 1920s.

Jersey was the textile used by Coco Chanel in the 1920s and 1930s in day dresses.

This fabric was revolutionary as this fabric had only been used before in underwear production.

Nylon was invented in 1935. Surrealism also influenced textiles.

The first pullover was from Elsa Schiaparelli. She was a close friend of the artist Salvador Dalí, Christian Berard and she commissioned them to design textiles and embroidery motifs for her dresses.
Schiaparelli experimented with unusual fabrics in her designs, including the modern fabrics rayon, vinyl and cellophane.

During the 1950s new fabrics were developed. These included: Acrylic (1950) Polyester (1953)
Spandex (1959).

Thursday, November 5, 2015

LA MODA EN EL CINE

THE INFLUENCE OF CINEMA IN FASHION




The film and fashion have always gone hand in hand and influenced each other from the beginning.

You could say that cinema was the gateway of fashion since World War II. Around 1914 Hollywood had its great boom and the film industry grew enormously. People needed distraction and started going more and more often to the movies, so Hollywood decided to create the so-called Star System, the "Star System".

The Stars were a mixture of actor and character admired and praised by the public and the female stars were converted in the canon to be followed by all women in the world. You could say that in the absence of walkways and models, actors and especially actresses, became a specie of Top models from the First World War until the 50s or even later.

The ladies had many feminine styles to follow completely different styles such was the thinness of the character of Audrey Hepburn who triumphed still very thin, too curvy Sophia Loren. Or the sensuality of Marilyn Monroe, in contrast to the disorder of Katherine Hepburn or Grace Kelly elegance. Those were the models for women, and the most important and relevant designers of this époque had the ability to dress those “cinema stars” by that time. Being the screen of the cinema such a runway can be today.

Maybe see how the film represented the feminine ideals in that time, made the designers on the runways represent a kind of action or almost acting representation of models and scene.

Sometimes it was the star itself which imposed their tastes in dress in the film, how did such Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich.

MODA FUTURISTA

FUTURISTIC CLOTHING

 

Futuristic clothing is not only a garment modern design, is the value of life that must be care and brings the garments comfortable and security to life. The futuristic fashion is a reality: for example it was created garments that resist a knife edge and more.

If unfortunately someone attacks to you with a knife to assault, is not crave wear a shirt that does not let pass the edge of the weapon.

Or maybe a ballet dancer or unexpected situations where you have to be tested your jeans. It would be great if the garment stretch as much as does the naked body. And if you just like a design for jean, but want it to look as a factory design, and be able to buying the garment exactly as you like.

For all these questions are now a reality, thanks to the innovation of different brands that have design, comfort and most importantly the functionality of the garment.

Romano Miguelo is responsible for creating brand male garments urban designs, which are resistant to cutting any cutting tool such as fibers are composed of polyethylene, ultra high molecular weight.

His co-creator Michael Puscar explains the purpose of this collection. "The idea is to create stylish garments that keep people safe. What we want is to save lives and these garments we succeeded. "This project seeks to continue the legacy of the late rapper The Duke, who made songs with messages in favor of life.

ILUSTRACIONES DE MODA


Friday, April 24, 2015

FASHION ARTICLES



HAUTE COUTURE TODAY

 
 

  • 'Haute couture' goes back several centuries, specifically the year 1868, when the needle artists came together to form the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, a body to regulate this business and today is encompassed within the Fédération Française de la Couture, du Prêt - à -Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode, founded in 1973 and located at number 100 rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré.

    The French Ministry of Industry and Fédération Française own the Couture are responsible to dictate what homes are termed 'haute couture'.

    The requirements are first: should create custom designs and offer several test sessions to ensure that clothes stay perfect. Moreover, firms have to have a workshop in Paris who works full time and has more than twenty employees. And finally, present two new collections a year, one in January and one in July, composed of both pieces for day and night.

    A collective known as 'les petite mains' is in charge of creating each piece by hand. A process in which they can get to invest hundreds of hours using the highest quality fabrics. It is not surprising, therefore, that the cheaper parts reach a price of several thousand euros. A value that increases in the number of craftsmen, time, design and materials used.

    Very expensive and unique pieces that just are handmade and custom and take months to be delivered.


    The couture houses say the double-digit increase in sales is due to the arrival of a new consumer, largely from the technology industry.

    The tension between past and present is inevitable in a discipline that continues to identify the fifties as its golden age as care to remember an exhibition that will open on July 12 at the Galliera Museum in Paris. A decade which served as inspiration for Donatella Versace theoretical in their parade on Sunday. Although Versace also took the time reference with much freedom and ended up bringing the issue to his usual spot at the hands of corsets, leather and metal closures and gowns that bare legs to the limit.

    If you take the word 'couture' to the letter, its definition would be making exclusive pieces created customized. However, the label 'haute couture' involves much more than creating garments for a unique public alike; has become an art. Also fashion and technology have become good friends.

Saturday, March 28, 2015

FASHION ARTICLES



TREND FASHION LEATHER AND SKIN






Is trend of the year 2015.  Leather can be a garment or accessories not only for events or night dress, but also street style recommended as a touch of elegance and distinguished clothes. Leather in garments or accessories are the new look at street style. It is such a look that changes the classic jeans for using the leather instead.




So that is the new look like, so sophisticated and useful in every moment of the day. Leather boots high, boots, and heels leather pants-tight, leather dresses, long coats covered with openwork. The leather and skin take center stage for the street style or night. Coexist overalls, coats, dresses and knitwear, with leather and skins. The texture that brings such glamour and also as a synonymous of luxury and elegance must be used with a criterion. The ideal is not to abuse this texture but use it as a garment or accessory independently each other. Besides the classic black leather coat or coffee, trend look like skin and leather handbags, gloves, hats, and dresses in different colors, pastels, animal print, fretwork. These skins can be natural or synthetic. Technological resources have made ​​it possible for synthetic skins look like natural imperceptibly.

Friday, March 27, 2015

FASHION ARTICLES




ANIMAL PRINT ALREADY INSTALLED








Animal print is a clothing and fashion style in which the garment is made to resemble the pattern of the skin and fur of an animal such as a Leopard, Cheetah, Zebra, Tiger, Spotted Hyena, Striped Hyena, African Wild Dog, Giraffe or monkey. Animal print is also used for handbags and footwear and even some jewelry. A major difference between animal prints and fur clothing is that animal prints today very often use fake fur instead of animal coat.
Animal prints have long been a popular style for many reasons. For one, they are generally expensive and considered rather exotic; hence they are a symbol of wealth and status. Throughout history, kings and other high people have used animal print rugs and such as a sign of status just as mounted animals are kept as trophies. Animal print became popular for women in the United States in the late 1960s.

FASHION ARTICLES







Since the late twentieth century to today, flowing fashion has accelerated significantly, and in this fluxus designers find a field of work and experimentation, which can reach uncharted land for traditional fashion. Since 1970, the work of Japanese fashion designers have had a considerable impact on international clothing, bypassing the numerous inclusions "japonismos" who came to fashion in the second half of the nineteenth century and are perpetuated to this day. These Japanese worked in a wave of renewal that was initiated by Issey Miyake. They gave a new definition of what was then creativity, status and sexuality.
Miyake consider the most revered designer in Japan today. He knew how to apply the newborn in the plastic to the textile arts, and launched a deconstruction of the parameters with which they worked in the West postmodernism.
For Miyake the matter, quite simply, is what matters.
In the matter rest "authentic" forms of tissue, away from classical forms reproduced by sewing, seeking to enhance the typified human body. In opposition to this kind of fashion, Miyake seeks powers of tissues that are docked to the human figure.
Miyake wants to return to this first experiment where the fashion design moves away from the sculptural constructions that mimic the body.

FASHION ARTICLES

THE INFLUENCE OF CINEMA IN FASHION




The film and fashion have always gone hand in hand and influenced each other from the beginning.

You could say that cinema was the gateway of fashion since World War II. Around 1914 Hollywood had its great boom and the film industry grew enormously. People needed distraction and started going more and more often to the movies, so Hollywood decided to create the so-called Star System, the "Star System".

The Stars were a mixture of actor and character admired and praised by the public and the female stars were converted in the canon to be followed by all women in the world. You could say that in the absence of walkways and models, actors and especially actresses, became a specie of Top models from the First World War until the 50s or even later.

The ladies had many feminine styles to follow completely different styles such was the thinness of the character of Audrey Hepburn who triumphed still very thin, too curvy Sophia Loren. Or the sensuality of Marilyn Monroe, in contrast to the disorder of Katherine Hepburn or Grace Kelly elegance. Those were the models for women, and the most important and relevant designers of this époque had the ability to dress those “cinema stars” by that time. Being the screen of the cinema such a runway can be today.