Fashion Design Portfolios
Published January 4, 2012 | 
Creation of a portfolio is one of the most important aspects for a fashion designer to make his presence felt and to carve a niche for himself. Portfolios are a means for the designer to communicate his ideas and concepts about fashion to the people. The portfolio determines the sale quotient of an individual’s design. It is a presentation of the range of a designer’s skills and his expertise in the field.
The process of making a portfolio is a thought provoking as a lot many factors go into making it perfect. The designer has to consider the design sketch and focus on the target customer. For instance, it should be known whether the portfolio is for men’s wear, children’s wear or for women. Similarly, it should be clearly defined whether the portfolio caters to contemporary or traditional fashion forms.
Portfolios are based on certain themes and have to be made keeping in mind the target product. The making of portfolios not only requires a knack for fashion but also an understanding of the human form.
The successful designers are more experimental when it comes to using techniques for making and presenting portfolios. They utilize various techniques such as watercolors, felt tip markers, cut and paste technique or computer aided programs for the presentation of portfolios.
A portfolio gives visual evidence about the technical skills of a designer. It shows whether the designer has knowledge of sewing, draping and making of patterns. It also gives an idea about the ability of the designer to make fashion drawings and also highlights his awareness of the past, present and future fashion trends. The portfolio has to be articulate and not redundant, evolutionary and not stagnant. It has to be in sync with the time and a true reflection of a designer’s artistic and creative skill.
Twenties Party Games Old Fashioned Celebration
Published December 13, 2011 |
Arranging a party from the twenties is a real challenge. It is almost like going back a century and to understand the different dresses and fashions of those times. You must ask your guests that they need to dress up in the costumes of twenties. You can give some ideas regarding the different outfits of twenties to your guests by adding some links of websites where they can go and check the outfits that they would like to wear for the party. Along with that you need to decorate the party according to the twenties and also think over Twenties Party Games.
Modeling Photo Shoot
This can be a very unique idea for a Twenties Party Game. In this event, every individual has to give different poses and go through a photo session. This is definitely going to be really interesting because in our normal lives we do not pose and have pictures like that, but this game is going to provide an opportunity where everyone is going to pose and get their photo shoot by a professional photographer. For this event you have to hire a professional photographer who has been taking photo sessions of different models so that he or she can guide as to what poses would be best and the rest of the individuals are going to watch. At the end of the photo session, the judge is to go through the different pictures on the digital camera and decide which participant performed the best and will be awarded as the Model of Twenties for that year.
Dance of Twenties
Dance of twenties can be one very exciting event added to your twenties party games. I am sure that there would be not many guests who know the dance of that era, so you must have a professional dancer who knows the dance and can teach all the guests the different moves of the dance, which is going to be a very interesting session and can be something that is going to be a learning for them throughout their lives. You can also call it an executive course of dancing for an hour or so where everyone will have an opportunity to learn the different steps and moves from the twenties, which they can enjoy at any party they want to.
Twenties parties can be a huge success if planned right. I just say that again and again because I have seen parties becoming a huge success and have seen parties turning a failure with the lack of management and proper planning and I stress it a lot that parties need a lot of focus on how they are planned. Therefore when you are planning for the twenties party games, you can think of other ideas too apart from what we have discussed above.
Fashion Designing Through Bratz Games
Published November 26, 2011 |
How talented are you? Do you know how to sketch a person’s face with ease or does it appear nowhere near his face but looks like an extinct creature from the Jurassic period? some people have all the creativity and talent in the world-creating something out of nothing. We can see that in the masters like Michelangelo who painted the ceiling of the Sistine chapel and sculpted the famous of the young David. We can see that in Beethoven who despite being totally deaf still managed to compose a musical masterpiece or in the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy who wrote a tome of the French-Russian War story that is still considered one of the best novels in existence.
Talent takes many forms. It is our innate genius that separates us from the other people. It is what distinguishes the ordinary from greatness. It is what makes a Michael Jordan, a Muhammad Ali, an Albert Einstein, a Pablo Picasso or a Leonardo Da Vinci. In the fashion world, these are the Yves saint Laurent, the Coco Chanel, the Giorgio Armani. These people revolutionize fashion and dictated to the world how people should look and what to wear. They build billions of dollars in global empires that personify a certain lifestyle and people all over swallow it up hook line and sinker.
However, the problem lies in discovering the innate talent within every person. It is like the proverbial finding the needle in a haystack. A child may be a genius, but if he is not properly molded it would prove to be of no consequence. What could have been his mark in history will be just like a ripple in an ocean storm. But once you discover a talent within a person it is like finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
I was fortunate to discover a budding talent with my daughter. At a young age, she likes drawing stuff like houses and persons and balloons-at least a semblance could be inferred from her doodling. As she grew older, she likes drawing little clothes for her little dolls. It is impressive for you can already see a certain harmony in her creations: the clothes actually match the entire outfit! This is when I discovered that she has a talent for fashion design. All it takes is a little nudge towards the right direction.
Knowing this, I introduced her to Bratz games. Bratz games have a compilation of games and one of these is Fashion Designer. My daughter enjoys playing Bratz games and she even introduced Bratz games to her friends, even holding a mini contest to see who can make the most beautiful Bratz using the clothes in Bratz Fashion designer. They always call me to judge these mini contests and I must admit that I had a hard time choosing the winner. I just usually make them all winners in designing. Thanks to Bratz games will be able to find her full potential.