Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques
Planning a Whole Outfit
A course by Giselle Manzano Ramírez , Designer and Artist
Joined December 2019
Joined December 2019
About the video: Planning a Whole Outfit
Overview
“Now that you know how to design individual garments, it's time to learn how to dress them tastefully with other items in your closet to create an outfit. Here I will teach you how to put an outfit together, starting with the base piece and progressing to an interesting piece, a connecting piece, and accessories. Let's extend your canvas from a jacket to a whole outfit. I will also teach you about the relevance of color theory in fashion, starting with the color wheel. You will learn how to utilize it to come up with color schemes that you may use to plan outfits.”
In this video lesson Giselle Manzano Ramírez addresses the topic: Planning a Whole Outfit, which is part of the Domestika online course: Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques. Combine innovative reverse dye techniques with unconventional objects to create unique, sustainable garments in your own personal style.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Planning a Whole Outfit In the previous lesson, you learned how to add embellishments to your garment to finish your project. In this lesson, I'll talk about how to put an outfit together. As we know how to design a jacket, why don't we extend our knowledge and create a whole outfit? You can use the same techniques you learned to rework and design a pair of pants or a skirt, or a shirt as well. Let me give you some tips on how to create a whole outfit. Pick one item and craft the entire outfit around it. Let's talk about your favorite coat that you like a lot. Let's choose it first and st...”
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Course summary for: Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques
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Category
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Areas
Fashion Design, Textile Design, Textile Dyeing, Upcycling
Giselle Manzano Ramírez
A course by Giselle Manzano Ramírez
Giselle Manzano Ramírez is a Colombian designer and artist based in Brooklyn. As a child, she was always creative, excelling in art at school and designing for friends and family from a young age. She went on to study graphic design and visual communication, and later fell in love with fashion in New York City. She then started redesigning her own clothes before going on to become a fashion stylist and curator.
Since then, Giselle has combined her love for both graphic design and fashion to design window displays, visual merchandising, lookbooks, branding, and advertising for vintage fashion boutiques. Through working with ReFashion Week 2020, she collaborated with the NYC Department of Sanitation and DonateNYC, and has given conferences and workshops at Pratt Institute, among others. As a graphic designer, her clients include Condé Nast, Candy Pratts Price (Vogue), and the Colombian Embassy in NYC. She also collaborates with emerging artists as part of her mission to empower people through fashion.
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