Showing posts with label Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Design. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Fashion Design Games

Fashion design games are now available. Here are some good choices.

Bratz fashion design game

Bratz, the popular funky dolls on the market, allows children to play dress up - but of course with only the clothes they have. The Bratz fashion game allows the user to dress the dolls, from which the characters in the line of Bratz toys by combining different fashionable accessories and clothes with a single clickMouse. So if you know a child that loves fashion and the Bratz dolls, this is the perfect game for them.

The Bratz fashion game is available in electronic format, as a board game or as a makeover package. The electronic game can be played by a single player or by multiple users. While several games, players outdo each other Bratz equipment for a "dance where you dress up their favorite Bratz dolls and let them fight each other in danceCompetitions.

SIMS

The series of SIMS always encourages creativity in dressing the character chosen by the user. At the beginning of each game, the user selects the sex and then the character he / she thinks is best. The game then provides options such as hair style, undershirt style that fits well with the clothes and even jacket choices. Shoes and pants are also available.

Kid Zone

Little designers can also start with a game called Kid Zone. In the paper dollThis section of the printed paper dolls including the different outfits and accessories. This can be a good alternative if the child is too young to play the computer game or video. There is also a Britney Spears Britney where players can dress in different clothes and different composition to give it a unique look.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

History of mannequins in fashion design - a look back shows that they are more than just a Dummies

Go through all the stores, and will spend several mannequins models the latest fashions. While continuing to come to this visual representation of staples have for granted, have a rich past and mannequins plans, going back in Egypt. Whereas developed as mannequins over the years, we can see that they have not only the ideal, there should be similar against, but how we live. No wonder historians, dealers, fashion, and studentsas characters from their long life fascinating.

and East. Ages the ancient tomb of Tutankhamen was opened in 1922 as king, one of the treasures were found, believed in a trunk-like life, the world's first costume brand. In fact, put the dummy its functional role as a dress form through the centuries. Were realistic facsimiles of kings and queens, so that tailors and seamstresses could not create clothes, the rulers have been created with infiniteFittings, or even worse, threatens his modesty touching their bodies.

French aristocracy. In the 18th century in France was the fashion, and "fashion dolls" were created as a capital to show the French fashion designer in the world. These early mannequins, fashion represents the ideal of the court, presented about a dozen centimeters of life. Were abroad, so people could see what were the French envoysCopy styles. Marie Antoinette was known that Austria dolls to send to their mothers and sisters have been updated with what is in vogue at Versailles.

The industrial revolution and the windows. Mannequins has a great leap forward in the development of electrically lit streets and large glass windows and glass. Suddenly, walking the streets and had to receive the fantasy worlds in shop windows, a popular pastime. The firstDummies were created for this purpose wax and wood. Were extremely heavy, weighing 200-300 pounds, reinforced with steel legs, so that they remain standing. With glass eyes, false teeth and real hair, took the ideal of female mannequin large breasts and small waists, make life situations, how to give a toast at a dinner. The art of fashion merchandising was born.

influence of Hollywood. Until '20, had dummiesExpressions of wood, which is why they were called "dummies." In the era of silent films, but there was a greater emphasis on face and body. With the popularity of Hollywood movies purchased mannequins, features realistic and animated facial expressions that mirror those of famous stars like Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino. In order to complete his movie star looks, her in a letter of intent, were exposed as fictional situations with cocktails at the Country Club

TheGaba Girls. In the 30 years began mannequins are made with plaster, the weight is reduced by about twenty-five pounds. And thanks to a former soap factory, a sculptor Lester Gaba, reached a new level of realism. His life-size figures were used as the Gaba Girls, "the most famous of which was named Cynthia. Cynthia Gaba presented as the latest celebrity in New York, pop culture and the doll was a sensation. He took her to nightclubs and the opera, and Cartier and Tiffanyalso lent her jewelry.

World War II with the arrival of World War II, life changed. And so are dummies. Mannequins how careless people have been replaced with heavy, those no-nonsense. But when the troops back, dummies, the public sector in promoting the public to be happy again. The dummies woman wearing bright smile, while the men were relaxed and comfortable, both internal display, suburban bliss.

FiberglassPlastics. Since '50 he withdrew from mannequins, brittle, fragile plaster of fiberglass and plastic solid. Because production and sculpture were not yet refined, the new mannequins less realistic and takes an abstract quality. They actually celebrated surrealism, with molded hair and anatomical inaccuracies. The dummy was Pop Art.

The women of the revolution. In changing roles of women in the '60s began, mannequins representedthe shift. On the one hand there was the hostess (or would-be home), mannequins with bouffant look and hope. The other extreme was the active, confident women posing, casual and confident. The decade also gave us the mod look - lean, leggy mannequin figures by Twiggy embodied.

Real life. The 70s saw the introduction of Black, Asian and Latin models, that the growing ethnic mix in the country. The reflection of the turbulent decadeMannequins began with facial expressions of pain, anxiety and stress. In 80 years the country has lost "physical" and mannequins were followed by running and jumping poses.

Modern Day When it comes to dummies are now out of the old rules, and everything goes. Mannequins are different colors, crystal, without head, back and without any form of abstraction. In reality, the realistic figures of recent decades hour look very scary. There is no form "idealprobably because it is no longer a consensus on a vision of ideal beauty.

Although we know that mannequins, fashion design and have always been linked, it is fascinating to see what these "dummies" have shown us how the history of civilization and culture.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Your unique design patterns, Part 2

I remember my friend Heidi always wear clothing, which was fully in every party! He was always in the clothes they well equipped and had a dream. Had neither the "Perfect Ten figure" But this has a huge balance account to buy clothes every time! When I asked, I was surprised to hear what she said! But soon I saw the same size and gave the same advice to all my other friends too!

After that day I never went shoppingexpensive shopping centers and spent tons of blocks affixed to the clothes to me or looked good! Wondering what is the secret? Well, it's easy! It is your own unique models! That's right! The use of clothing, readymade are so good that they compromise with the way you look! These are clothes that fit well can never be, to remove and can at best give the media! This is exactly like me, before I asked the advice of Heidi was in!

If you knowabout how you look and I'm tired, just another in a party full of average beliefs then my advice is to design your own pattern. It 'easy to master and really do not need to make an expert, the model move forward and get right with the task of insight into their own hands situation.

Nobody knows your body better than yourself and you can find anyone better than you to get the models that fitgood. With regard to the fineness and the measure was concerned not worry, especially with a variety of well-designed instruments That awaits international quality standards to assist you in your work!

Curves designer and tailor curve are two tools that will take place all your measures in a moment. You know, not an expert, just as they are made to use! Their rulers are specially designed to ensure that the curves are measured to fit your particular design. If you dressfit, but may have no relationship, everything seems to fall perfectly into place!

curve through the designer for the front and back armhole measurement capability to accentuate the curves you deserve! On the other side of the curve the tailor makes the trick when it comes to curved surfaces, which are often hard to manage, even for the experienced sewers! If the stride length, living areas or horse, the tool ensures that every angle is perfectequipped!

If you feel that perfection lies in the details taken care of shortly, then I agree with you. Therefore we always recommend that you obtain a Spacer Simflex button for you if you decide to come with your template unique!

With this tool, all your button holes, the hooks and eyes will be distributed pictures and so do not believe in a perfect position to your eyes. If there is such thing as perfection, then these toolspossible that when it comes to your model. After all its needs that people have their eyes do not go!

We are all individuals, the personalities, but we have, no wonder I think we all have our own models, bearing only an expression of our individuality. The best way to do this is to stop wearing clothes ready-made to fit so badly that you feel someone else's wardrobe for the show, they get only those tools and make your ownModels with ease and perfection!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Fashion Design Drawing Lesson 1 - The Dress Form

A good form is the foundation for all succeeding lessons. No matter how pretty a dress or design is, if it is placed on a " dumpy " figure, it will have no style whatever.

In this lesson we first learn how to draw a layout for the form. In the next lesson we dress the same form in a very simple dress.

A form must have good proportion and style. A form leaning forward, or making a bow, as one might express it, is not stylish, neither is one with too large a bust and a tiny waist; nor one with high, square shoulders.

This form is used for dressmaker's sketches, and for any dress to be placed on a lay figure.

When the dress is on the human figure, action comes in play and a complete understanding of these lessons will enable the student to draw the human figure in a variety of positions.

TO DRAW THE FORM

When drawing the dress form place the figure in the center of the paper. This may be done by getting the proportions and measuring to see just where to begin the drawing. Leave a little more margin at the bottom, than at the top.

Draw line 1, which is a very slight horizontal curve up, then lines 2, 3,4, 5, 6 and 7 as marked on the lesson plate. Line 2 is thrown out for the bust, and line 3 is thrown in at the waist, which throws the shoulders back. Lines 4 and 5 cross lines 2 and 3 at the waist, at first curving out for the hips, then curving in to the bottom of the skirt oval. Line 6 (center line of waist) follows line 2, not literally, but taking the general direction, getting straighter as it reaches the waist line. Line 7 (center line of skirt) runs straight down from line 6.

See part A of the dress form figure: Dress Form

The collar goes into the shoulders three (3) times and is about the same height. The lines of the collar curve down, as does the waist line, but the bottom of the sleeve curves up. In the back view this order is reversed, as is explained in Lesson II. The collar and waist fines curve up, and the bottom of the sleeve curves down.

There are three planes at the waist: the front, and two sides. You observe but little of the far side in a three-quarter view. This is true of the collar also. These three planes on the waist run into each other, forming a graceful curve. The planes on the collar do the same.

To test the accuracy of your form, drop the dotted lines from the center of the near shoulder to the end of the waist line. This line must be vertical or parallel with the edges of your paper. Drop the dotted line from the end of the far shoulder to the other end of the waist line. This line also must be vertical.

Practice this figure, doing it many times. When you feel confident that you understand all that has preceded and can draw Fig. A with snap, take up Fig. B which is the dress form placed on Fig. A.

If you have followed all directions carefully, you will have a good form on which any costume may be placed.