Designers and Inspiration

Appealing combinations of colors

New York; ready to wear

Predicts what fashion colors and styles will be for the next season, 18 months in advance

New York; American Working Women Clothes, Comfortable outfits that look good, DKNY

Milan; glamorous, risquė, designs, beautiful fabric

Give direction to a design, creates movement designs; carries the eye from one area to another

Liaison between design and production. Essentially the engineers of fashion-

New York; Designer Jeans, the American Look

Three-dimensional shape of an object

Used for inspiration

Paris; Radical Simplicity, Liberating Women, perfume, Little Black Dress

New York; Wedding Dresses

How fabric feels and looks on the surface

They draw freehand, illustration-quality renderings of a designers ideas

Lines that are formed with trims such as ribbon

Milan; Suits, Classic Look

New York; Renovating Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent

Person who creates new ideas for garments and accessories

What the picture is called and used for sketching an idea or concept

The designs and their inspirations are placed. 

guidelines for combining & using the elements of design: balance, proportion, rhythm, emphasis

objects are arranged in an symmetrical or asymmetrical fashion that are pleasing to the eye

Feeling of movement created by line, shape, or color in a design

The outline of an object

Color, line, form & texture; building blocks of design

Paris; The New Look, Yards of Fabric, reinventing the hour-glass figure

center or interest; first thing people see

relationship of one part to another and of all the parts to the whole

Makes clothes for shows, movies and theater productions

Live fashion modeling to show companies' lines in the showrooms of designers

Lines that are formed during construction of a garment such as the seams

Rome, Italy; Handbags, Fur

Paris; Used painting in design, Trapeze Line

software designers use to create textile and garment designs

New York; All American Look, Ivy League Polo