life through my eyes: Design intership

For my internship I spent 2 week working in the world of high fashion, which isn’t as fashionable as it may look. The world of fashion is not all Diors and Dolces for a new designer it can be very hard as I learnt from Angela, you can’t just turn out a run way collection every second week.

Angela recently set up her business and label and has a studio in the hear of cork city On the first day Angela and I discussed what we would cover over the two weeks. This included what type of clothes design I was looking to do men’s or women’s formal or casual, the kinds of things I wanted to learn and how best she could do that. We decided in the two weeks to carry out 2 projects a men’s wear and a womens wear. For the men’s wear we were making a denim waist coat and for the women’s we were making a skirt unfortunately we didn't get the women’s wear done as due to time restrictions.

Angela Beaumont graduated in June 2012 with a BA Honours Degree in Fashion Design for Industry from the renowned Heriot – Watt University in Galashiels, Scotland. Before this she completed a two year Fashion Design Course in the Cork College of Commerce. She has completed a variety of internships. The most notable was in 2010, working in Edinburgh for four months with the established menswear brand ‘WalkerSlater’. During this internship Angela collaborated with the co –owner on the design of the labels 1st womenswear collection. Angela also carried out multiple in store commissions for the brand. Angela also interned with Samantha Cole London in 2011, leading up to the presentation of her 2nd collection at Vaxhaull Fashion Scout at London Fashion Week

this is the process involved in bringing your garment form a 2D drawing to a a 3D piece

firstly I started with the straight measurement, the book tells you the distance from one part to another but not the full lengths, you then had to make a master copy this would never be cut you trace the master copy and you have your pattern piece on paper.

Then you make a draft or toille as its called fit it to the model, me in this case and you resize it make sure to make the necessary adjustments to your master copy, you then make a new paper pattern and from this you cute your pieces so your lining and your outer fabric, the sew all the panels of each adding in darts etc, then sew the two sets wrong sides facing to each other leaving a gap to pull through the slip stitch that by hand

I had various tools a straight ruler, pencil, eraser and a curved ruler, the curved ruler is so important so you get a continuous curve