Category: Tech Design

I thought you might be interested in what a Fashion Colorist does. As a designer I’m used to checking and approving color test/lab dips myself, but the interviewee, who would rather stay annonymous does this exclusively for her assigned designers. I asked her 15 distinct questions to help you understand this position. It seems like a position people “just fall into.” They don’t teach this specifically in school, but you may be assisted by one when you begin your new job… if your lucky.

…we got into a conversation about how easy it is to forget the fundamentals like draping and filling out a spec sheet. Funny thing, we both forgot how to measure shoulder slope. We knew the term, but couldn’t remember how to take the measurement. After talking about it and sketching it out on a napkin we figured it out.

Dress Form. How It’s Made.

Video: How To Attach A Pant Zipper

Don’t forget a women’s pant zipper is unzipped with the left hand and men’s zipper is unzipped with the right hand.

Grading isn’t taught as part of academic fashion education, but a skill, Cavazza observes, that most companies today will teach hands on, training within the company. When someone comes to Cavazza interested in being a grader, the first thing he asks is: “Do you like math and fractions? If you don’t like [...]

Brandon Graham: How do the details a tech designer tracks affect the bottom line and consumption?

Nina Banks: Because we’re working with production and sales as well as the designers, we’re going to see a big picture of how any design change you want to make will impact the costs, and the consumption of fabric, [...]

Production is the mother of the business. Sales controls the business: they’re the father. They say “they’re doing this in the industry and we want to be closer to this, what do we need to do to get there?” They look at numbers critically, and see how they can make it better, and ask the technical designer how to make the changes. Sales, being the father knows where the family needs to go, how to make a better “kid,” the garment, so to speak.