Laura Volpintesta, Fashion Educator, Illustrator, Designer, Author of the Language of Fashion Design and co-author of the Fashion Design Resource and Specification Book. Fashion Design Faculty Parsons the New School for Design ince 1997. Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Faculty 2006-present
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Here are my TOP RESOURCES for FASHION STUDENTS!
based on 30 years of teaching Fashion Design at Parsons School of Design School of Fashion and right here at Fashion Illustration Tribe.
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Model Drawing Basic Lesson– 12 minute video
Beginning your journey mini- course
ART SUPPLIES resources for fashion students: Students Illustration and Design Sketching
My Illustration Art Supply Cart at Utrecht.for fashion illustration and sketching. Below, I’ll discuss art supplies individually so you know what you’re getting in there, and below that are more technical and creative must-haves!
I love gouache and pencils for fashion illustration and fashion design sketching!
My favorite gouache boxes:
are portable and excellent quality for fashion illustration: I love these kits for sketching in full, lush color anywhere.
Use on sketch paper informally, or drawing paper, but on Bristol Vellum it takes on such a rich, velvety texture you will fall in love with!
The boxes I recommend also include easy colors for mixing skintones which is excellent for a fashion illustrator, right? We’re sketching on PEOPLE.
Pelikan Gouache 24 pans comes with nice, deep palette wells for color mixing!
Caran D’ache box, is more expensive but my all time favorite, excellent pigments and quality and comes with a good brush too.
Grumbacher Box is nice but the pans feel “drier” and the colors also more subdues. perhaps a better choice for more subtle and soft sketches.
Inktense blocks set of 12 are also an incredible, rich beautiful quality pigment and include two colors that mix amazingly into skintone. However, the palette space for mixing is almost non existent so you’ll need an extra palette on the side for your fashion illustrations
Fantastic, affordable fashion illustration brushes are right here: Van Gogh set of 3 only $10, tested and true
Turner Gouache in tubes Winsor and Newton Gouache ($$$)
Fashion Design BOOK resources for fashion students
This video of mine also includes all the links in its caption and shows you all of my fave books for fashion students!
Fashion Design Course by Steven Faerm is affordable and covers everything we cover in my Soulful Fashion Foundation Program
Draping Book:
Basic Foundations, (this is the book I had at home to help me through my first year of draping class, this is a good reference without any distractions. It’s not EXACTLY what i teach in my Patternmaking Demystified pattern and draping class but as close as you’ll get ):
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- the Art of Fashion Draping by Connie Amaden Crawford
Creative, vivid photos, explores roots and modern styles with step by step draping :
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- Draping: the Complete Course by Kathryn Kissl
images from my Patternmaking and Drqping Demystified programPatternmaking for Fashion Design, this book includes wonderful illustrations that show variations, plus clear design details and shadows, for informing your own sketches as well as total vocabulary of pattern techniques:
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- PATTERNMAKING FOR FASHION DESIGN by Helen Joseph Armstrong
Fashion Design Process: examples of portfolios, research, flats, designers, design process.
My NEW FAVORITE fashion design textbook i use for my classes, shown above is:
the Fashion Designers Sketchbook by Sharon Rothman
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- Fashion Design Course: by Steven Faerm
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- Patternmaking for fashion Design by Helen Joseph Armstrong with clear sketches and flat pattern drafting– I LIKE THE OLDER EDITIONS OF THE BOOK THE BEST>>>>>>
- Patternmaking for fashion Design by Helen Joseph Armstrong with clear sketches and flat pattern drafting– I LIKE THE OLDER EDITIONS OF THE BOOK THE BEST>>>>>>
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- Couture Sewing Book-
Couture Sewing by Claire Shaeffer
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- Basic Sewing Book essential resource for fashion students!
Sewing for Fashion Design by Connie Amaden Crawford, also Advanced Sewing for Fashion Design.
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- FABRIC FOR FASHION Swatch book:
(the swatches are all white but the quality and description are excellent)
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- Fabric for Fashion TEXT book -learn the truth about the difference between natural and synthetic fabrics and fibers, and how they come to be and impact the environment.
Fabric Pattern/Print Design for fashion students
An excellent COLOR theory book for fashion students, artists and designers
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- Color: How to Use It by Marcie Cooperman (COLOR THEORY LECTURE)
Books by Laura Volpintesta
the Language of Fashion Design: 26 Principles Every Fashion Designer Should Know:
The Fashion Designers Reference and Specification Book
YOUTUBE RESOURCES for fashion students
Zoe Hong is an awesome channel for learning fashion student learning school stuff! She’s amazing!
Check out my Youtube channel for illustration and design sketching,, model drawing, Language of Fashion Design masterclasseses, digital illustration and technical design tutorials and more.
CROQUIS TEMPLATES
for sketching fashion design students can use a ready-body to sketch over called a croquis
Childrens , Tweens -Menswear croquis- Womens-Plus Size – Maternity croquis pages on my site
Explore this whole Fashion Illustration Tribe.com website BLOG for articles and resources!
iPad/ Digital DEVICE APPS: top resources for fashion students
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- Pret a template croquis templates: download/ print bodies -app for template sketching on iPad or tablet/Google Play – I love the templates but I DON’T RECOMMEND THIS APP FOR SKETCHING. The apps listed below are infinitely better- just use the templates from P.A.T and pull them into the other apps.
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- Tayasui Sketches App for iPad or Google Play
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- Photo Collaging apps to use in tablet or phone, ipad.
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- Adobe Capture app for pulling out COLOR PALETTES/ color stories
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- Canva for easy graphic design and mood boards, collaging, etc
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- Pinterest for design research, poses, fabrics, collections, everything!
Research/ trend sites/ Fashion forecasting: top resources for fashion students
First View.com is an incredible archive! Fashion calendar for all countries, archives all designers runway, beauty and backstage for every Fashion week! AMAZING! Search by designer, country, season, year, etc……
Premiere Vision THE fabric show Paris, New York
Li Edelkoort: Trend Union, Talking Textiles
Fashion United global fashion image design library
Promostyl
Pantone- colors
>>>>>>>>Pinterest for research. CHECK OUT MY FASHION MODEL DRAWING AND DESIGN DETAIL BOARDS
image from my Patternmaking and Draping online programFABRIC, MUSLIN, scissors, swatches , trims, printing and notions: top resources for fashion students
DHARMA trading dying supplies, $20 dollar EXCELLENT swatch kit available! Only black and white but very worth it and educational too! Spend $45 for to get the color swatches of chiffon, habotai silk and crepe satin included in your kit.
THE NYC GARMENT CENTER:
FABRIC AND TRIM SHOPS:
M&J Trimming NYC //blog.mjtrim.com/category/fashion/
DRESS FORMS
Dress Forms for designers- Superior Mannequins.
Sewing supplies, notions, trims, EVERYTHING- paper catalog as well as website, and great prices Wawak
Digital Printing: the Style Council
FLATS AND TECHNICAL DRAWING top resources for fashion students :
my Craftsy Class for hand sketching flats
Adobe Illustrator Flats sketching and design: the Fashion Professor
Shingo Sato amazing, brilliant patternmaking workshops, TR Cutting.
TOP RESOURCES FOR FASHION STUDENTS: ETHICAL FASHION
the True Cost of Fast Fashion- must-see movie
FASHION DESIGN COURSES and COACHING
Fashion Illustration Tribe Immersions, programs, courses, bundles and private coaching.
