Spring 2010 Design

Spring 2010 Look Book: Madeleine Thompson Cashmere



Knitwear designer, Madeleine Thompson's new look book features friend and muse, British model Poppy Delevigne. In her namesake line of cashmere separates—think striped A-line tank dresses, pastel-colored loungewear and cozy oversized cardigans—Thompson fills our need for luxurious, everyday comfort pieces. Fans of the collection, which launched in 2007, include Kate Moss, Sienna Miller, and Lily Donaldson.

READ MORE - Spring 2010 Design

London Fashion Week

Fashion designers: Luella – Autumn-Winter 2009/2010 at the London Fashion Week



Luella Bartley launched a collection inspired by school uniforms, a little military, and with a British punk touch. Although it is not so remarkable as the collection for spring-summer 2009, which is outstanding and charming, this new collection has really nice details like the particular zippers (or zip fasteners) with beautiful shapes, and sheer fabrics mixed with other fabrics to create a great effect.

READ MORE - London Fashion Week

fashion design show

Front row at the Chanel fashion design show in Paris – Autumn-winter 2009/2010



This time, it seems that Milla Jovovich is attending a lot of fashion shows at the Paris Fashion Week. Once again, she showed up to sit in a front row. Her dress is one of the best looks that have been seen in this important fashion event in the French capital: it is a perfect dress and she wore it with a belt in coral, a color of the season.

READ MORE - fashion design show

FMD Fashion Sketch

sexy Posing Sketch

READ MORE - FMD Fashion Sketch

Fashion Design Sketch

Fashion the downside

In my previous post I talked about the positive things of fashion shows. I feel the need to talk about the downside as well, because it's not all as great as it may look at fist sight.



Fashion shows is all about an artistic expression of a designer. Clothes are worn by people, and those people wearing the clothes on the runway are inevitably part of the total image. When a designer will design clothes he also selects someone to wear these clothes, someone that fits his/her image, the creative vision of the design.
Somehow most designers feel that a tall slim girl is ideal. If you look at the shape of a person on a sketch of a fashion designer, you will see this is a none existing profile of a human. See this image of Versace where you can see an already slim model is twice the size of the sketched girl.

READ MORE - Fashion Design Sketch

Clothing Design

Fashion Design and Sewing Worksheet



(sketch by my 14-year-old daughter, Marielle)

Thought I’d share my current worksheet I use to streamline my design and sewing production of my boys’ clothing line.

Clothing Design and Sewing Sheet

I always attach a sketch or photo AND fabric swatches to each worksheet. It makes the process so much easier. This worksheet gets utilized for both custom orders and assembly-line sewing.

Once I start “real” production (manufacturing) for the wholesale market this coming year, this worksheet will change as there will be things which will have to be done differently.

READ MORE - Clothing Design

style zone design

StyleZone Screenshot



StyleZone is an online trendsetting fashion community, where users can design their own clothes and share their creations with other users. Fashion items are presented in 3D technology on a true to life modifiable body. Users can modify their face and body features, allowing them the flexibility to design clothes for anyone. After the completion of one design, each user gets his/her own StyleZone homepage where their creations are exposed to the rest of the community. Users can rate each other's designs, try on each other's designs, chat with other fashion addicts, and write personal blogs.

READ MORE - style zone design