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In no particular order here are the websites and blogs that every fashion design, fashion illustration, patternmaking, and textiles sciences student should follow. These are websites which share an immense amount of educational information and will be integral to completing your projects and doing research. If you do not have time to follow dozens and dozens of sites these are the ones that should be on your must-have list:
FashionStudentsOnline.com (a.k.a. "FSO") - A fashion design, fashion illustration, patternmaking and textiles sciences resource aimed at providing accessible supplementary education and a place to network for home learners as well as fashion, apparel technology and textiles students. Content includes: an extremely large educational book directory (over 150 books with reviews as of this writing); a comprehensive school directory listing schools around the world; a global link directory listing freelancers, manufacturers, and other helpful websites for learners and entrepreneurs; interviews with people who work in the industry; articles covering theory, history, entrepreneurship, textiles and garment care; tutorials on garment construction, industry sewing methods, corsetmaking, pattern drafting / patternmaking, illustration and flats drawing; equipment reviews plus much more. FSO also will be launching self-study courses, portfolio hosting, blog hosting, and a variety of other features early in 2010.
Fashion-Incubator.com - Maintained and written by Katlheen Fasanella, author of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Sewn Product Manufacturing. Kathleen is a professional patternmaker with lots of experience working with Designer-Entrepreneur's. She wrote this book to provide the basic knowledge every DE needs in order to branch out into the industry successfully. Her website contains more than 16,000 pages of content which supplement the book. She makes updates on an almost daily basis and covers topics such as manufacturing, grading, how to work with industry professionals, line sheets, marketing, technical illustrations, patternmaking, and more. She also has a forum which is for subscribers only (you become a subscriber by purchasing her book for $60 or alternatively paying a higher cash fee) and at least in North America many industry professionals will not work with new DE's who have not read the book. I have the book, you should have it too.
PatternSchool.com - Originally a website which offered a free online course in patternmaking for stretch fabrics, the owner and author, Stuart Anderson converted to a blog format in fall 2009. The website now is home to both the free online pattern drafting course as well as fabulous blog entries by Stuart Anderson on topics such as patternmaking, the patternmaking industry, students and new grads. Previously owning a boutique swimwear label and later working for a large swimwear company, he has years of experience and expertise in not only patternmaking but in the industry itself both as a designer and as an entrepreneur.
WornThrough.com - A blog focused on dress and fashion news, events, commentary, and critique, specifically looking at the cultural and social aspects. Its primary focus is the academic and museum worlds of dress studies. It was created and is administered by Monica Sklar, a professional and student in the study of dress, and features contributors from historical and cultural dress professions.
FashionEra.com - A website which has been online for several years and contains over 750 richly illustrated pages of fashion history, costume history, clothing, fashions and social history. Content covers the period from 1800 to present and has special sections on couture, craft in fashion and undergarments. It also contains several tutorials on pattern drafting, a costuming resource directory, and downloadable fashion figure templates for illustration purposes.
IllustrationWeb.com - A collection of hundreds of fashion illustrations from more than 50 world-renown illustrators. Every illustrator has a distinct style and Hi-Res versions are available to registered users (registration is free).
Costumes.org (a.k.a. "The Costumer's Manifesto") - This is an educational costume site for researching shows, school papers, and places to buy materials. It includes a full online college level course in costume history, numerous how-to pages, images from costume history arranged by date, free patterns and screensavers, and much more. Navigation can be a bit tricky but work your way through it and if in doubt use the search feature.
AntiqueDress.com - This site features the beauty and elegance of original clothing from the 1800's through today: Victorian ensembles, Edwardian whites, 20's flapper dresses, fancy dresses and bodices, bridal gowns, hats, purses, undergarments, children's/doll's clothing, some textiles, and more. There are thousands of images of clothing and accessories (hats, shoes, sunglasses, etc) which you can study and use for research purposes. Not only are antique clothes included but also clothing worn by celebrities that are known to push boundaries with their stage costumes: Barbara Streisand, Carol Channing, Whitney Houston, Joan Collins, and Liza Minnelli.
Style.com - A very commercial site but the best option for staying up to date with the newest runway collections. If you register you can save images that you like to a feature called your "lookbook". (This is the 9th site on the list, I know. It was added at a later date because someone pointed out there were no websites in this list where you can find runway photos. It's too late to change the article title unfortunately!)
This list was compiled after many years of searching the internet for educational sites that are unique and stand out from the rest. Sites which can help a fashion design student, fashion designer, textile designer with learning and research. Too many times a student who is searching for helpful information finds only home sewing sites or trend and buying blogs and we hope this list helps you find what you are looking for. If it doesn't, don't forget to search the Fashion Students Online directory of weblinks and also search the main FSO website, you'd be surprised what you can find!
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In no particular order here are the websites and blogs that every fashion design, fashion illustration, patternmaking, and textiles sciences student should follow. These are websites which share an immense amount of educational information and will be integral to completing your projects...
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I don't write as good as you do, but if you want to check it out here it is. Thanks again and have a great day!
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You're very welcome!
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I help designers worldwide. I have been in the industry for 24 years now and I share my knowledge and contacts on my site. I also provide an e-book for designers which lists all my curent buyer contacts, Selfridges, Harvey Nichols buyers etc etc ( about 450 boutique & store buyers) but more importantly i show buyers exactly how I successfully take orders with these buyers and the things to do and NOT to do under ant circumstance. What I have been told by all designers is that the things I go through with them, they are not taught! Amazes me everytime but I am willing to help out and there are many testimonials on my site from designers everywhere telling how I have done.
See for yourself and if you think its a worthwhile site hopefully we can do something together. A lot of sites such as yours even affiliate with me and earn via linking to my site ( details at the bottom of my homepage)
Have a look, see what you think.
Kind Rgds
Renato
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