Fabric Inspiration: Fashion Design Process

Design Inspiration: Choosing   Fashion Fabrics for Sketching and Presenting

Choosing Fabric and inspiration are absolutely integral to the fashion designer’s creative portfoio and design process.
I usually ALWAYS sketch with fabric IN MY HANDS.
I say it again and again and again and again: FABRIC IS YOUR RAW MATERIAL- there literally IS NO DESIGN WITHOUT YOUR FABRIC!
So why not base your sketches firmly in this source?

Maybe not all agree, but those of you who go around with me in these circles can usually relate to my approach to the creative process…

Fashion is physical, creativity is very physical, among other things.

We don’t do our best work with out heads and our fingers, there is so much more to us!

We have a whole body that wants to move, feel, experiment, explore, express, craft, create, be adorned, dance, play……!?

Yes.

And that starts with fabric and inspiration design inspiration for sketching and portfolio. 

Some considerations as your imagination takes flight into reality:

• What will she wear, and why?
• How will it feel on her skin? How will it fit? How will it move?
•  What kind of care and construction does it require? How much does it cost? 
• How is it made? How does it last? 
• What colors, textures and patterns are involved?
•  Is it sourced in nature, or synthetic?
• Does it have closures or trims? 
• Are the garments and design looks layered?  What season do they speak to? What occasions? What locations? What time of day?

• What story does it tell, and 
• how does it function in her life? What role does it play?

So in today’s video i focus on two points for creative process for fashion  design sketching.

1. that Fashion Fabric and design inspirations and intentions have a “magnetic” effect. Choose one fabric, one inspiration, one garment piece or one photo, and it will start to literally pull others into it and around it. It’s like magic and that’s the kind of FLOW experience we want to engage with. We want to dance with creation when we make and design fashion art or fashion sketches. (Or absolutely anything else we create in our lives!)
2. PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE: invites the fabric and inspiration. Since our body can associate sitting at desks and doing assignments with forced duties, getting into a new position or approach can open up your right-brain and creative flow. Dumping all of your fabric swatches and inspirations around you on the floor like you would when you were a kid, and making piles, sorting them into groups, and taping, cutting, feeling, imagining… is not only relaxing and healthy but actually makes you very open to new design ideas, approaches, angles and perspectives. 
3. PUT YOURSELF into a creative and informal position that breaks you out of a feeling of restriction and releases you into an energized, joyful state of play and flow (this is where our zone of genius lies).
4. PLAY YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC this ALWAYS enhances a flow state too.

At the end of the video,

I pull an inspiring card  just to keep our fashion sketching studies soul-centered and remind us what it’s all about with a message to support our creative process.

Interesting, the message in the video is about surrender.

OH YES!

I hope this serves you, remember there are free articles, resources and guidance ALL OVER THIS WEBSITE as well as carefully crafted, inentional premium course I’ve built for YOU TO COME AND GROW IN!

I ‘ve curated and created MANY a series of videos and resources to help and inspire you in your fashion design and fashion sketching studies.

also-

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SOULFULLY~
I love you!

Laura