Introduction to Moulage for Fashion Design
Influences
A course by Isabel Sánchez , Designer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Next, I am going to tell you about the professionals who have influenced me the most and continue to do so. We will talk about artists of the stature of Madeleine Vionnet, Cristóbal Balenciaga or Japan.”
In this video lesson Isabel Sánchez addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Moulage for Fashion Design. Learn to shape clothes directly on a mannequin and turn them into patterns for future replicas.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson I will talk about designers, artists that have influenced me the most. Perhaps the biggest influence on me is Madeleine Vionnet for aesthetics, but mainly for technique. I have brought you a book that I think is a jewel. It is prefaced by Miyake and it took the author 30 years to reproduce this book. It will seem like an outrage and an exaggeration. She uses such a complicated technique that it is a titanic task to almost be able to reproduce their patterns, because his technique is very architectural and he works a lot on the bias, which is one of the most difficu...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Moulage for Fashion Design
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Category
Craft, Fashion -
Areas
Fashion Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing

Isabel Sánchez
A course by Isabel Sánchez
Isabel Sanchéz has dedicated herself to the fashion world for over 40 years. Since the late '80s she has worked alongside and collaborated with some of Spain's most renowned designers like Devota & Lomba, Jesús del Pozo, and Agatha Ruiz de la Prada.
She began combining her design studio collaborations with teaching in 1999, and has since worked at the University of Navarra, the European University of Madrid, and the IED (Istituto Europeo di Design), to name just a few, giving classes on the technical side of dressmaking, pattern design, and draping.
In 2011, she published the book Little Black Dress, which was translated into several languages. The same year, she opened her studio, Laboratorio de Proyectos, where she works on runway collections and any other project requiring the study of fabric volume and behavior.
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