Resort wear tops for 40+ women for the summer 16

Obviously, draping is fun when u know the rules of the game. This year, I was elated to see the response to the question I gave for the last draping academic exam that my students shall face. 

ok! I agree! Who wants to design for a 40 year old? 

But my question was " why not?" . It's the 40 year olds who have more money after all. So, they were asked to design a resort wear top for the summer of 16 for a 40+ woman. 

And here we are with some splendid work by the Sem 5 students. 

how to drape a basic back bodice and join with the front

Here i upload a video of the demonstration of the draping Basic back in my class. Though i quite agree to the fact that in garment making, video tutorials are not the best way to learn the basic. You must learn the basics live. explorations of various types could be gathered from a video tutorial. I must also mention that this video is not a video tutorial. It is a video of a live tutorial shot by my student while giving it in class.

Draped tops for a Beach Party

For the grading of the 3rd year fashion design students in the draping module, I wanted to give them a situation where they could design a garment for a occasion.

These are some of the developments.

Mediocrity cannot accept eccentricity! Its SAD.

This interview of John Galliano with Charlie Rose after his so called racist remarks will make to fall in love with him again. He is a true genius and see how mediocrity could pull him down from his supreme creativity.

anyway, he is back. and well all want him back.

Enjoy the interview!

The Draping Drama

All my students have got into the argument of Pattern Making vs Draping. Such discussions always put me in a position where I am forced to take a side. Since I have been teaching Draping since a very long long time it is always expected of me to defend Draping against Pattern making. Though its a different matter altogether that the first ever class that i took at NIFT was Pattern Making. However, coming back to the point of pattern making and Draping.... I am on the side of the good fitting clothes. It doesn't matter in the end if it was pattern made or draped. it is the end product that should make the designers decide which tool they would like to use for the design conceived. 

The art of Draping is fluid and give more freedom to the 'art that design is'. on the other hand the technique of pattern making is technical and engineered. 

Here, i am posting a video, which shows the fluidity of the art of draping..

Enjoy!! 

The Draping Apron

I would always fancy toolkits and chef's aprons. Though, they do not fall in my domain. So i tried to apply it to my profession. I am a Draping teacher and I need to give many many demonstration of Draping every week. So I thought of Designing a draping Apron where all my Draping tools could be handy while I could concentrate on draping.

This is the improved version of the Apron. The first attempt was good as a regular apron but was not customized to the draping needs.

This Draping Apron has
- a customized slot for French Curve.
- V shaped slots for scissors - 2 of them ( big and small shears)
- loops to hang measuring tape and Style tape.
- slim pockets for pens and pencils.
- Pockets for Pin boxes.
- a large pocket for any additional material.


- and the most liked feature is the MAGNET attached to the belt to collect pins. :)

Enjoy!

This is how work happens in my Draping Class

I always thought about making a video of my demonstrations. Looking at myself would help me improve my performance in terms of teaching. It could also help students who missed a demo. Although, i would also mean that the demo would be readily available. so the attention paid to any demo so that no detail is missed out shall reduce.

This is a nice video (courtsey Somesh Mahanty) of the Fashion Design (Batch 11-14).

Enjoy.