I am always amazed that how people can turn thread into fabric, and then into garments — by using their own hands. They seems to have everything in their mind and they are just like a composer conducting the thread together for a symphony, making it as an art performance. I would love to share some of our favourite knitwear brands/designers.
1) Sandra Backland, based in Stockholm, Sweden
Sandra Backland, a Swedish master knitwear designer, featuring in a lot of fashion magazines. Those crazy building blocks of knits, those nodding to skeletal forms and crocheted pants, Sandra is clearly a designer that likes to take artistic risks, and the results are spectacular. She was also commissioned to produce knits for the collections of both LV and Emilio Pucci.
After 6 months of research and preparation, the Fashionary mens edition will be launched in early August. In the meantime, the templates are open to download.
Download the template (PDF):
http://fashionary.org/download/mens_sketch.pdf
The mens template works in the same way as the womens, to serve as a tool for instant sketching and at the same time it can be treated as blank page.
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Color is one of the most important design element and every seasons, companies pay a huge amount of money try to invent new color or to stay with the color trend. And in this post, we explore some more about color, like generators, or color research tool.
Color Wheel
To understand color, you need to under the color wheel first
In the color wheel, we have 2 formula formed:
Analogous colors – any three colors which are side by side on a 12 part color wheel, such as yellow-green, yellow, and yellow-orange. Usually one of the three colors predominates.
Complementary colors – any two colors which are directly opposite each other, such as red and green and red-purple and yellow-green. In the illustration above, there are several variations of yellow-green in the leaves and several variations of red-purple in the orchid. These opposing colors create maximum contrast and maximum stability.
Color Mode (Spot color, RGB, CMYK……)
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FASHIONARY is an on going project, so I am always looking for feedback. And I received a number of requests for modifying the current technical templates. Thanks a lot! Today I update it and you can download here.
The Changes
Now, we can use the templates more easily for both sides.
Here is an exmaple, I spent 10 mins for a denim jacket.
If you have any other feedback, please don’t be hesitate to tell me.
Regards,
Penter
Denim is one of the oldest fabric, but still, it is one of the most fashionable and widely used fabric. And as the full jeans trend is going wildly this season, we can have a deeper look at the finishing details of your jeans. And somehow, denim has the most sophisticated finishing. Some of the techniques found below can be done by yourself, like bleaching, washing and ripping.
Acid Washing
Patented in 1986, this wash uses pumice stones soaked in bleach to create deep contrast within the coloring of the denim jeans.
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