FACT: I study in a fashion college. The college teaches me everything a fashion designer needs to learn. Garment construction. Draping. Surface Design. Fashion Illustration. The college teaches it all. Some how, the college never teaches you "FASHION".
I was chatting with a fellow fashion blogger (Stylefluid Trendz: He is a facebook fashion blogger who regularly posts amazing visuals related to fashion) few minutes ago and he was explaining me how it was the worst decision in his life to not choose to study in a fashion college.
In my college, every year 30 students pass out from the fashion design department. They are expert pattern makers and have a flair for fashion illustrations. But very few students pass out with an understanding of fashion. Those who pass out with an understanding of fashion are the same people who entered the college with an understanding! I believe that fashion is something personal and you don't need a faculty/professor to dictate you fashion is about. The understanding comes from within. The the curiosity for trends, the love for brands, the thirst for being updated, the aesthetic sense... it comes from within. It's in your lifestyle. It's in the books that you read, the websites that you surf, the places you go, the blogs you read.
Most students in my batch are not really sure if brights are still in trend, but the blogger I chatted with (Stylefluid Trendz) knows what Dolce & Gabbana AW12 menswear show was about. The show was live only few hours ago! He tells me, "fashion has been always thr with me..even when i was growing up...it was just thr..and it still amazes me..how in the hell i knew about fashion houses,labels.designers..".
Most fashion design students across the globe have amazing sense of 'design'. There are many students who create jaw-droppingly creative designs. They know it all. They have master draping skills. They create amazing surfaces and yet are clueless when you ask them about the designers who used paisley motifs in their recent collection!
There is a reason why I discuss 'DESIGN' with my classmates but 'FASHION' with bloggers! Bloggers know it better =)) We share knowledge through our blogposts. I take the joy of being both a 'fashion design student' and a 'fashion blogger'!
I originally started writing this blogpost to recall the times that just flew away few months ago, before it got influenced by a chat conversation. Like I mentioned in my previous blogpost, I have passed semester five and I am now in semester 6!
In my very first Integrated Term Project, we made bodice & skirt, and a dress in the latter one. Take a look at what we created for the integrated term project this semester to get ourselves landed in a new semester...
.... JACKETS, CORSETS AND TROUSERS!
My Creation: The mustard jacket was inspired from impossible figures, with an interesting overlap buttons and a similar back. It is teamed with a trouser which has an apple peel pattern, i.e., a single seam line revolves its way down the hem!
FRONT
BACK
SAYANTI'S Jacket had an amazing shoulder detail; teamed with a black trouser.
BACK
Madhu and Vertika's ensemble.
Ashish's ensemble.
Jazz(Left) wearing Gaurav's creation.
BACK
>>FUN<<
Vertika's jacket and corset.
Meenakshi at the machine.
Jessica tracing her patterns.
Prakriti.. and her corset.
A student's creation.
Our juniors made Bodice and Skirts.
Students at work!
Dutta in his creation.
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