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Caftan one piece pant-suit with decorative yoke, boots and bracelets. Gouache and pencil illustration by Laura Volpintesta

Kaftans, Kimonos, “Roots of Fashion Design” sketching and construction class

Caftans, Kimonos, Circle Skirts, and Dirndls Kaftans Kimonos Roots of Fashion Laura Volpintesta FashionIllustrationtribe FUNDAMENTAL sustainable CLOTHING PRINCIPLES Since (even before) the very beginning of my career, I’ve been fascinated by kimonos, caftans, saris, togas ponchos, and all sorts of “original” clothing created with minimal cutting of the cloth. THE ORIGINAL SUSTAINABLE FASHION. It’s zero […]

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Fashion and Color: A Love Story

Color theory for Fashion. I‘m obsessed. Right now I’m loving pale pale pale tint of pink (which I never would have worn years ago), alongside royal blue, and mint green. Lemon yellow. I love pastels and pure primary hues when paired with each other or mixed with white. These colors and combinations give me a feeling

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Instagram for fashion, design, and business- It’s a visual party! COME

INSTAGRAM for FASHION -LOVE! ( My instagram for fashion feed is embedded here at the bottom of the page using an awesome “instagram feed” plugin!) Scroll down to see my recent posts right here! My video loaded with everything I learned while I tripled my instagram following in a month while euphorically harnessing the many tricks and tools that beginners

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The New Fashion Draping Book and Fashion Figure

I eagerly unwrapped my review copy of the newly released Draping, the Complete Course by Karolyn Kiisel on Laurence King Publishing, a few months ago. (Hang in here, the juiciest part is at the end 🙂 It sure shows how many years have passed since I taught sophomore draping at Parsons in New York, 1997-2001… when

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#FashionFilter: Fashion Ethics Issues

Hello TRIBE! I miss you! I’ve been busy registering and prepping my pilot run of 12-week Fashion Design Semester online course and it’s been eating up a lot of my time. I am so EXCITED as I’m connecting with each new student and meeting new artists and designers from around the world. Pinch me,

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STOP: What’s UP with Fashion Proportions???

STOP!!!! What’s UP with Fashion Proportions? “8 heads”, “9 heads?” “10 heads, 12 heads? “( Length of the body in relation to the length of the head use traditionally to guage fashion bodies). But length of a head also has a relationship to width of the body. So an 8-9 “head” figure can be realistic

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Brazilian Fashion Designers and Fashion Weeks

I love Brazilian Fashion!! Hello Fashion Tribalistas! There’s a lot I’d like to add to this post in the upcoming week, but I’m totally swamped with my Parsons classes wrapping up and a HUMUNGOUS illustration presentation that I’m working up for designer Catherine Addai-Boadu including full color illustrations and flats for all of the looks

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