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Where tactile, creative, classic Fashion Studies to bring out your distinct voice and message-- through craftsmanship, and before computers.
Do you love FASHION ART and FASHION DESIGN?
…and you feel like you can’t draw? And sketching your concepts MATTERS TO YOU as a tool for design communication and exploration?
Do you want to craft and to communicate your ideas in a HIGHLY PERSONAL , yet also professional, way, using your hands to explore, discover, and craft?
Or/ and, do you want to make your own original fashion patterns and original pieces and customizations? Do you want to learn the vocabulary and components of fashion design so you can build upon them and speak its visual and verbal, technical language?
I believe in fashion education grounded SOLIDLY in SKILLS. Not only ideas. as I see the fashion education landscape changing around me, I haven’t changed my standards.
If a student comes to me to learn to draw, or to learn patternmaking or draping, I want to see them LITERATE and SOLID in these knowledge bases and languages for a creative and professional life they can be proud of for decades.
Having sturdy knowledge base and structures is what actually opens the freedom for you to spread your wings and fly creatively. Because you KNOW HOW.
I warmly welcome fashion-loving creatives in to this space to unwind and unfurl your wings . To immerse yourself and take ownership of your understanding of fashion design and what it means to you.
Drawing is a creative tool. Drawing is an expression. Drawing is a technical language and also an emotional language. Drawing is play, drawing is work, drawing is translation.
Drawing and draping are exploration. Drawing and draping are discovery processes- incredible tools for developing ideas into form.
No matter what direction fashion moves in in this pivotal time in history, here we are of the belief that DRAWING, draping, handwork, and craft is integral to our making and experience in fashion design and fashion illustration.
Some of you are already working designers.
Some of you are novices or amateurs (“lovers”).
Some of you want to create, others want to curate, celebrate, or write aboutj/ research/ discuss fashion and design. I’ve even taught fashion design to fashion marketing students – beginners are some of my favorite students because they are so open to trying new things.
Fashion, style, and adornment invite and inspire you, fanning your inner fire, find and refine your voice and style, through skills, processes and techniques, AND LOOSEN UP if that’s what’s needed (more often than not, that’s what’s needed!-) I can help.
Here is where you can sharpen your professional fashion art and design skills in fashion design online programs I’ve infused with raw heart, freedom, intuition, deliberate intention, personal motivation, and a sense of adventure.
JOY. Isn’t that why we come to fashion?
I created this course platform before a mudslide of technical software took over fashion industry and education.
NOW I AM MORE PROUD THAN EVER TO OFFER A SPACE WHERE YOUC AN WORK WITH YOUR HANDS, EMOTIONS, RHYTHMS and PHYSICALITY and not just click -click-click at a screen.
THERE IS MAGIC IN OUR PHYSICAL CREATIVE EXPERIENCE that cannot happen with just our eyes and a screen. THAT IS WHAT THIS SPACE IS ABOUT.
This is the space where curiosity, discovery, inspiration, improvisation, accuracy and innovation flow out of learning in a space of encouragement, support, excellence, humor, intimacy and openness to grow and stretch..
Our creative expression is a journey in the material world, in our communities, but ultimately it’s a journey within ourselves, and our relationship to our own individual voice and expression.
It’s the TONE of my courses that make a difference in peoples’ lives here. I
t’s HOW we learn and expand when we feel at home and safe to embrace our natural process while learning
–that brings us to integrate these professional, creative, quality skills at a high level fueled by inspiration and backed by solid skills, knowledge and techniques..
…to learn more about me click >>|about laura volpintesta booklet|
I’m the Author of the Language of Fashion Design and fashion design faculty at Parsons School of Design since 1997- where’ I’ve had the unique opportunity to teach such a wide scope of fashion design courses; from 3 -D design/draping, patternmaking, sewing and construction, beginner and advanced fashion illustration, fashion design portfolio development, concept creation and research for fashion, and fashion model drawing.
There is nothing in the world like feeling the world of art and design open up in your hands, heart and soul as your journey unfolds and your creative voice starts to sing, at first so softly,
building through embodiment of technique, practice, and self-discovery. as we “clear” any of the clogged pipes to your creative outward expression from your inner voice. I am deeply honored to be a part of your journey.
There are free resources to support you everywhere on this blog, videos, tutorials, and more on the sales pages for each course.
I invite you to tune within and feel the creative energy bubbling up from that source within you that is always with you– and thank it for taking you on this journey and staying by your side. !
I want you to know without a DOUBT that if you have the desire and the love to create, then there is no way on earth that it is not within your power and ability to do so. Your desire that brought you here is your destiny to acheive it!
Now, let’s dive in.
CORE FOUNDATION: DRAWING, DESIGN, CONCEPT COLLECTION and PORTFOLIO
COMPREHENSIVE SUITE OF FASHION DESIGN COURSES and CERTIFICATE
VIEW THE ALL -ACCESS signature cerftification suite of fashion programs above, or Click on any course below to visit the sales page, most of the sales pages have free tutorials to enjoy!!
