Professional skills of fashion design

Becoming a fashion designer is not an easy task. You not only need to have a certain talent, but also need to know how to learn and work hard for it in order to succeed.

First, we should pay attention to the collection and collation of professional materials and various information.

Although the design method of recycled clothes in clothing is very practical, it is difficult to get rid of the influence of other people's ideas and get innovation and transcendence from higher demand. Therefore, we need to get more extensive contact with all kinds of information outside our major, such as the achievements of scientific and technological development, the development trend of culture, the works of various artistic categories, and various thoughts and concepts existing in literature, philosophy and music, so as to broaden our knowledge, increase our knowledge, learn from others, and get more enlightenment from them, thus producing better ideas.

Second, we should be good at learning and improving through imitation.

Imitation is the common essential feature of advanced life. I remember that American psychologists said that imitation, as one of human behavior patterns, is the result of learning. The use of imitation in the learning process, from the point of view of the behavior itself, should be regarded as a kind of plagiarism and the antonym of creation. It can't show how good its technology or ability is. However, it should be noted that many successful inventions or creations begin with imitation, and imitation should be regarded as a good learning method.

Third, we should constantly improve our aesthetic ability and establish our own aesthetic view.

Aesthetic ability, also known as "aesthetic ability". It refers to people's ability to understand and evaluate beauty, beautiful things and various aesthetic characteristics, that is, people must have sensibility, judgment, imagination and creativity when they analyze and evaluate various things and phenomena in nature and social life. As a designer, it is very important to cultivate and improve aesthetic ability. People with strong aesthetic ability can quickly discover beauty, capture the essential things hidden in the depths of aesthetic objects, and rise from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge. Only in this way can they create beauty and design beauty. It is difficult to form extraordinary talent only by relying on temporary spirituality and lacking the cultivation of acquired artistic accomplishment.

Fourth, make yourself sensitive as soon as possible.

The initial inspiration and clues of design creation often come from all aspects of life. Some things seem ordinary or insignificant, but they may contain many flashes. If designers turn a blind eye to them, can't find their existence and can't capture and use them in time, then many useful design materials will be missed.

5. Make yourself fashionable as soon as possible.

Although sometimes all fashionable things are not necessarily good and beautiful, designers must have an accepting attitude, not preconceived inertia thinking when dealing with new ideas and phenomena, and learn to put themselves in the shoes, accept and think, so that their design works can keep pace with the times and even lead the fashion.

Sixth, we should take the initiative to create practical opportunities for ourselves.

Fashion design is a practical subject. Only through continuous practice can we truly understand fashion, gain more direct experience and make really good and useful designs.

7. Learn to communicate, exchange and cooperate with others.

As a designer, we must establish a sense of teamwork and learn to communicate, exchange and cooperate with others. This kind of ability needs to be exercised and cultivated in school, and efforts should be made to make it a work habit, which is very beneficial to future work.

1, get familiar with the human body from learning to draw it.

2. After learning figure painting, learn the basic color relationship.

3, began to learn some clothing professional knowledge, starting with drawing style drawings.

After the above study, I have basically mastered the human body, color and style. Let's learn the effect diagram of human body wearing clothes.

5. Recommend two books, the basic book and the improved book of American classic fashion illustration techniques, and practice according to the above courses. I believe I can skillfully draw fashion illustrations through my own efforts.

6. Learn some knowledge of plate making, and make sure you know the craft of your clothes.

First, the designer's knowledge structure 1, the ability to learn from

Primitive learning is also called imitation, such as pious imitation (fear of others), competitive imitation (superiority), anxious imitation (being the same as others but not outdated), trinity imitation: direct imitation (children imitate adults, monkeys learn to smoke), indirect imitation (accumulation, summary, comparison, memory, etc.). ), creative imitation (choosing the best among the best, criticizing the rebellion) In fact, fashion design is the whole process of innovation and invention, bold design, bold transformation, bold and practical new technologies, new materials and new processes.

The conception stage of fashion design, to some extent, is actually the choice of style in the mind. Design is a kind of creation, but not an invention. There is no unprecedented design. Therefore, the design must learn from predecessors.

This is especially true for clothing design, because the changing process of clothing is continuous and uninterrupted, and every kind of clothing is on the road of the changing history of human clothing culture, which is a link between the past and the future. To learn from our predecessors, we should learn and study their achievements and experiences with an open mind. As far as clothing design is concerned, the first thing to learn is the history of clothing, because if you want to accurately grasp the current fashion in design, you must understand the past changes of clothing and master the laws of change. If we want to surpass our predecessors in design, we must first learn their historical experience and traditional skills. We should not only learn the clothing history of China, but also learn the clothing history of the West, and also learn the existing national costumes around the world. Especially for us in China, if we want to catch up with the advanced countries in the world in design and truly connect with the international community, we should not only know our own history, but also try to understand the changes of western clothing (because the popularity of international clothing and the changes of western clothing are in the same strain). In this way, in the face of various international fashions, we will have our own opinions and opinions when we absorb and learn from them, instead of blindly copying them.

In addition, pay attention to the breadth of reference. In addition to ancient and modern Chinese and foreign costume culture, we should also try our best to dabble in and learn from other fields. Because clothing is a comprehensive cultural phenomenon, involving all fields of social science and natural science. The job of a designer is very complicated. He should not only grasp the local historical trend and market changes at that time, but also know the strength of himself and his competitors like the back of his hand. He should also have the ability and strength to organize production, realize his design intention and bring profits to the enterprise. Therefore, designers should have extensive literacy and rich experience, love life, be interested in everything and have strong curiosity. In this way, when designing ideas, we can broaden our ideas and learn from them widely. Only by "standing on the shoulders of giants" can we design works that are higher than those of our predecessors. This is the importance of reference.

2, the ability of design

Forecast → information collection → planning → development planning → design and production → sales → information feedback → summary. (Back and forth) Design is a creative process. After having a good idea, the next step is how to complete and realize it. Drawing design ideas on paper is not the completion of design, but the beginning of design. Clothing design renderings are one of the visual manifestations of design creativity, and whether this design creativity can be realized needs to be explored by using specific clothing materials and using certain cutting and production techniques. Therefore, as a designer, if you don't know anything about the performance of materials, cutting methods and manufacturing processes, your ideas are definitely irrelevant. You often see that many design renderings are beautiful, but they can't be made, or even if they are barely made, they can't be worn out (or they can't be worn out because they don't think about opening their mouths, or they can't move, walk, lift their arms or bend their backs).

It can be seen that it is not only necessary but also essential for designers to master the basic skills of cutting and making. In fact, many design skills and feelings are not on paper, but in the actual process of plate making, cutting and sewing. The so-called "lines" and "shapes" in clothing are not lines and shapes on paper, but lines and shapes in three-dimensional space. This feeling can only be improved in the actual combat training in three-dimensional space. Whether it is a senior fashion designer in Paris or a designer in a general fashion enterprise, in addition to expressing their design intentions in the form of painting, they mainly grasp the design in the three-dimensional fashion modeling. Therefore, plate-making, cutting and production technology are compulsory courses for students in training design talents, whether it is a clothing school affiliated to the Paris Haute Couture Association, FIT (new york Fashion Institute) in new york, or Japanese Institute of Culture and Fashion.

3. Deep artistic attainments

Fashion design is not only a product design, but also an artistic creation. Therefore, extensive artistic accomplishment is very important for fashion designers. Christian Dior, once known as the "King of Fashion", is a fashion master who integrates architecture, painting, music and other knowledge. His disciple Yves Saint-Laurent is also an artistic genius. From Saint Laurent's works, we can see that his design inspiration comes from a wide range, and we can feel the influence of contemporary artists: passionate Spanish style, colorful Russian sentiment, simple and bold African style, dignified and distinctive Chinese style, velazquez wedding dress with classical flavor, bright Picasso style, concise and lively mondriaan cold abstract art and pop art all have unique application and play in his works. Issey Miyake, Golz Al, Mugly and other design masters who are active in the international fashion stage are also outstanding artists. The profound artistic attainments determine the infinite creativity of designers.

4. Rich market experience, such as flour and accessories market: domestic and foreign fabrics and accessories markets in this region.

Information market: fashion information, fashion trends, designer manuscripts. Clothing market: brand, wholesale and retail. Clothing market: jewelry, accessories, beauty and skin care. Production market: production, washing, clothing, printing and dyeing, printing, etc.

As a product design, the effect of fashion design is not judged by an expert, but tested by the market. Therefore, it will be very dangerous for designers to know nothing about the target market they serve, because their designs may not be recognized by the market after they are put into production, resulting in a backlog, which will bring huge economic losses to enterprises and even make them close down. Designers should maintain their own personality and unique design style, but this does not mean ignoring market demand. Unlike painters, designers can't be narcissistic. They must always pay attention to the new trends in the market. On the basis of maintaining their own design style, they must stand in the position of consumers and manage every detail in place in order to be invincible in the fierce market competition. Clothing major is an industrial course, which emphasizes the application and practicability of knowledge. In years of teaching, I feel more and more that the teaching mode of this major design course can't meet the needs of today's society. Teaching activities do not go to the society, behind closed doors, on paper, students' design is quasi-conceptual, their thinking can not be expanded, and their market adaptability is poor. Many students feel that it will take a long time for their knowledge to be applied to work practice after graduation. To this end, I think we should think from the following aspects, shorten or end the running-in period of students in advance, so that students can quickly adapt to and straighten out the design, production and market when they go to work after graduation.

The practicality of the course is combined with practice, market, enterprises and specific topics.

At present, sketch, color and three elements (plane element, solid element and color element) are the basic courses of design. Fashion design, as a category of design art, cannot be separated from painting foundation. The basic training of painting is not only to draw clothing paintings and design drawings, but also to cultivate students' aesthetic taste and formal rules. In the past, the basic teaching of painting in domestic fashion colleges followed the traditional basic teaching mode of painting in art colleges, and gradually trained from geometry and still life to plaster and head, to human body, bust and full body.

But the painting of fashion design does not need such meticulous and rigorous basic training. First, time is not allowed, because clothing painting is only a small part of clothing system engineering, and most of it should be the study of clothing modeling and structural changes, cutting techniques and so on. Second, clothing painting shows the relationship between people and clothing, and people are the first. The necessary knowledge of human body structure, reasonable expression of non-light and shadow effects such as object structure, space and texture, and a large number of short-term assignments such as human body sketch and dressing figures are the main contents of basic painting training.

The courses of design basis, renderings, clothing materials science, clothing illustration techniques, clothing accessories design, clothing design and ready-made clothing design aim to cultivate students to master the design rules and formal rules, as well as the dialectical relationship between formal beauty, material beauty and technical beauty. Cultivate students' modern fashion design consciousness with creative thinking and high comprehensive design skills, and establish a complete concept of fashion design system. In general, the production process of small and medium-sized enterprises is design draft-finalized by the design director-sample version-car sample version-fitting-designer's modification-modification to conform to the design idea-sample clothes number-determining the production quantity according to the market-purchasing large goods of fabrics-placing orders-selling-after-sales feedback, which is a basic process to turn an idea into a finished product.

Perhaps most of our design teachers know this, but in actual teaching, we often emphasize the techniques of fashion illustration and how to draw beautiful fashion renderings, while ignoring the practicality and productivity of design. Most of the works focus on embodying innovative ideas and artistic forms, with pioneering cultural characteristics, which are far from clothing as a commodity. Therefore, the inherent quality factors of clothing itself are often ignored by students, so that students often win prizes in competitions. But they are not good at fashion clothes in daily life, and they are not qualified to engage in design work in enterprises. The reason is that students don't have enough understanding of fashion design and have not mastered the substantive technical skills of clothing itself. Therefore, teachers are required to know the students of this major.

On the one hand, students are encouraged to have strong innovative spirit and artistic accomplishment, actively participate in professional competitions, and pay attention to cultivating students' keen perception of formal beauty and avant-garde fashion, so that they have advanced design consciousness and design concept. On the other hand, students' understanding of the essence of clothing should be emphasized, and the functional value of clothing should be reflected in a good aesthetic form on the basis of learning the beauty of clothing structure and technology. Show the connotation of high taste with appropriate wearing effect, and establish correct design consciousness and concept.

From this point of view, professional courses should be further improved and perfected. Combining with reality, market, enterprises and specific topics is the purpose of combining fashion design specialty with enterprises. Combined with specific topics, the rapid changes in the market will force teachers to constantly update and adjust their teaching methods and teaching contents, which can prevent air-to-air explanation of design concepts.