Upcycling for Beginners: Sustainable Fashion Design
Customize Your Top
A course by Selina Sanders , Designer
About the video: Customize Your Top
Overview
“Here I will cover how to take advantage of your top's versatility by talking about some potential style options. With an open mind and creativity, you can make sure that you get a lot of wear from your new creation.”
In this video lesson Selina Sanders addresses the topic: Customize Your Top, which is part of the Domestika online course: Upcycling for Beginners: Sustainable Fashion Design. Breathe new life into old textiles by learning how to cut, assemble, sew, and customize unique garments using existing materials.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this part of our lesson, I will talk to you about customizing or styling your top. This is actually one of my favorite things to talk about because you will take your top and actually in real life, Think about the things that you are going to wear or accessorize with your top. I am such a big fan of accessorizing because it really does. Give your top so many different looks. and with just one piece of garment. So? Like I talked about earlier, we will end up with scrap pieces from cutting our fabric. So as you can see right here, we have extra yardage left that I don't ever like to waste ...”
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Course summary for: Upcycling for Beginners: Sustainable Fashion Design
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Category
Craft, Fashion -
Areas
Fashion Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing, Upcycling
Selina Sanders
A course by Selina Sanders
Selina Sanders is a fashion designer with over 16 years of experience working in the industry. Her mother was also a fashion designer and took her to fabric suppliers as a teenager which inspired her to collect vintage materials. Her mother also upcycled existing materials into new garments, paving the way for Selina’s career. Selina has worked in various areas of fashion from design to production for luxury, mid, and mass market retailers in the US, before starting her own namesake label in 2020.
Her brand, Selina Sanders specializes in small-batch fashion with a focus on one-of-a-kind upcycled garments and accessories. As an artist, she’s been featured in publications including Vogue, Marie Claire, and shares her work with over 99K followers on Instagram.
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