ARE YOU A FASHION DESIGNER?

sallida | 22. January 2014 | Fashion

Becoming a Fashion Designer

Did you always dream to become a Fashion Designer? Do you have what it takes, to be a fashion designer? You know, if Fashion designer is your dream career if you:

1. Spent your childhood making clothes for your barbie instead of playing with your friends

2. Read Fashion magazines, instead of your school textbooks

3. Ran a boutique from your basement at age of 10

However, there are several facets of the profession. Functioning as a clothier can as well suggest supervising a style group at a sportswear business as making a label under your own personal name.

Even though the former career may not seem as glamorous since the latter, it will make your life less stressful. Creating your own personal label takes a large amount of time, dedication and work. Not forgetting living over the poverty line for quite a while.

CHOOSING A TECHNIQUE

There are as numerous other ways to begin a fashion profession as there are types of styles. However, many people find that the most effective base for a design profession is to obtain a fine arts diploma popular at a prestigious college. Besides training your crafts, an excellent school will add credibility to your resume as well.

APPLYING TO THE SCHOOL

There really is a complete large amount of colleges which have fashion programs, but merely a handful gets the type or type of reputation that will really push your job. It's tough to enter these universities as competition is higher, and they are generally very selective. You will have to deliver a portfolio of drawings. Drawing can also be a significant skill for a designer, it's the real method you communicate your thinking. So to build a remarkable portfolio it's best if you have some encounter in sketching; getting art classes can help you understand proportion and form. But you don't have to be a specialist drawer to be accepted in a college. "The main quality that we try to find within our students is they are really passionate and exuberant about style," says Mongo. "For those who have wonderful concepts, but can't draw, you will find methods for getting around it always. You could as an example, put your styles on a mannequin and consider images of it. Through that right time, you will take fine art lessons and study drawing, color form, and composition.

Become familiar with pattern making also, draping and cutting strategies. The most important feature of design universities in which they work really carefully with. Parsons, as an example, Ambitious students have the opportunity to earn prestigious awards and grants, which also bring them a whole lot of attention along with financial support.

One extremely important event could be the fashion show at the ultimate end of the last semester when graduating students display their collections. A whole lot of important people from the style industry attend to this graduation outrageous and acquire noticed by the mass media.

Hussein Chalayan or example, became instantly infamous when he showed rotting clothes that he had buried in his backyard for his graduation show at Saint Martin's.

ALTERNATIVES

Schools are not for all. If you're just wanting to get a job in the Fashion industry, not all the designers have a college degree." In order to act as a seamstress or even a patternmaker, the advisable thing is probably to use for an internship at the fashion house and function your way up.

Nevertheless, there are many samples of famous creative designers who began as interns without any formal training. As an example, Dior's brightest brand new star, men's wear designer Hedi Slimane, got a diploma in journalism when he began working with men's use developer Jose Levy. Balenciaga's Nicolas GhesquiËre is another example of a brilliantly successful designer who learned the job as an assistant at Jean-Paul Gaultier. Generally, you submit an application for an internship by delivering a portfolio to a style house you're enthusiastic about. But it's best if you contact them up beforehand to notice exactly what they require. It's also crucial that you note that competitors are fierce, and until you have private connections, it's extremely tough to have an internship with no education.

DAVID DEIBIS MAKEUP ARTIST

sallida | 8. November 2013 | Beauty

International Makeup Artist

Our friend and International artist David Deibis, who now live in Spain, is developing, even more, his international career which began so many years ago. David was born in Trujillo-Venezuela, and his name is not only known in Venezuela but, also in Europe, David Deibis...

Where all started

In a small town called Bocono (Venezuela) where David was born, his first inspiration her mother, and later her sister... David with their Andean roots became interested in the fashion world when her mother represents Venezuela in the World Lady, which she won in Mexico. David decides to go to Caracas (the capital) to study Advertising and Marketing and began working as an assistant to Luigi Ratino in agency models L Altro Uomo. Thanks to Luigi Ratino (president of the agency) David began to develop as a makeup artist... And although it was not an easy road, it stood out from the start.

ACCESSORIES – GIOVANNA CAPASSO

sallida | 23. October 2013 | Designers

Accessories Giovanna Capasso

Giovanna Capasso is a specialist in marketing, and an emerging jewelry designer, whose creations are simple and elegant, with a touch of sophistication, her pieces you can wear them on any occasion, from the beach till a date night...

When did you start with the idea of designing jewelry?

I started designing jewelry since college, back when I still weighed no party at 4 or 5 am and continue doing my pieces until 10 or 11 am. It has always amused me as if everything around me was extinguished and we were alone, accounts, my creativity, and my dreams.

I have always believed that my condition of being left-handed and sign Pisces have reigned more in my art that comes from a family of painters' side. Maybe I'm wrong, but does it matter! After many years dedicating myself to what really feeds me, marketing, I started in 2014 inspired to try a new technique on my creative time. Something completely new and completely unknown to me.

Working with silicone materials that mold and hand-painted. And, between brushes, colored candles and I spend hours creating necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and rings that look much more put you displayed.

What describes your style as a designer?

All I do of course take the brand identity that describes me as a simple, highly sociable, but especially chic person.

And so it was like wearing my pieces, my friends began to want to wear them. Then on a trip to Formentera to me, one owns a super-chic to ask me where I had bought the shop Pretty woman approached, so I placed an order. That called for an Italian distributor of unique pieces of jewelry to buy one of my necklaces and so she has also contacted me arrived.

WELCOME TO CRETE

sallida | 20. September 2013 | Events

Crete the Archaeological Island

Last September, we went for two weeks to relax in Crete-Greece, all we wanted was to lie down the sand, in front of a spectacular sea and do nothing more. Our experience was great, and to discover new places and cultural places has no words. People were always friendly, and the cuisine was remarkably exquisite, starting with all types of fish, lobster, octopus, shrimp and ending of course with the lamb. Almost everything is done on the grill with a touch of lemon, olive oil, and oregano, and despite, the simplicity of the dishes the flavor was incredible.

The beaches... Were beautiful, to stay and never to return, the beaches where stone beach with a spectacular dark blue color, they were like a cup of tea and had a variety of fish that one could be all day at sea admiring that diversity.

Wherever you look you can appreciate that Minoan civilization had left, one of the most flourishing cultures of the time, and the first human settlement in Crete dates before 130,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic age, you can imagine how rich this culture is. All around the island you can see the passage of this important culture, appreciating the remains of palaces, forts, etc. Crete is an island worth visiting and discovering.

FASHION DESIGNER ALEJANDRO RAMIREZ

sallida | 3. September 2013 | Designers

Fashion Designer Alejandro Ramirez

Alejandro Ramirez is a young and emerging fashion designer from Venezuela. His passion began looking at fashion magazines of his mother and aunts. He started to dress the women of his family, unaware that his passion should become one day in his life’s work.

Although Alejandro tried to fool his fate, and he began to study mechanical engineering. Whereas Alejandro started to studied engineering, he could not walk away from his destiny. Not to mention that he was very good at engineering. His grandfather told him that he has to pursue his dreams, therefore, Alejandro changed mathematics and calculations for fabrics and designs.

While he studied fashion design, his qualities to illustrate, allowed him to work as an illustrator for designers like Angel Sanchez, and Oscar Carvallo.

Alejandro Ramirez graduated with honors in 2000 from The Instituto Brivil. Alejandro developed his first atelier at his grandmother’s house. In his Grandmother’s house, he starts producing not just dresses, but also his career…

Although, to become a fashion designer was not an easy process he gained his experience working with different Venezuelan fashion designers. Designers like Hugo Espina, Ranera and Gianni Straccia allowed him to develop his career as a fashion designer. Not to mention, it allowed him to have the right connections to develop his career as a fashion designer. Among other things, Alejandro also designed many dresses for Miss Venezuela.

“FASHION IS A CYCLE WHERE NOTHING IS TOTALLY NEW, IT IS IN CONSTANT RENOVATION”

Uptown Fashion Week 2016

Last September the eyes of the world focused on The New York Fashion Week, because the most important designers and the new elite of emerging designers took the runway, to show the new trends for 2016.

This year the famous Fashion Week, which includes many prestigious Latin names as Carolina Herrera, Angel Sanchez, and Narciso Rodriguez, will have its first edition outside the Lincoln Center, to move to lower Manhattan and Midtown.

Not to mention, also in Manhattan, other international and emerging designers, participated in another Fashion Week, the Uptown Fashion Week.

Uptown Fashion Week was created to provide an opportunity for designers everywhere who have the talent to present their collections.

This year 29 designers, from 12 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America, presented their creations in the United Palace Theater in Upper Manhattan.

Venezuela was also presented with Carlos Sierra, Alejandro Ramirez, and Douglas Tapia, who along with another group chosen by the organizers will show their creations.

Today we bring you guys the entire collection presented by Alejandro Ramirez, leaving the name of Venezuela very high.

Alejandro Ramirez is a young Venezuela designer, one of my professors at the university when I studied Fashion design, and with the time we became also friends. Alejandro’s aesthetics is really feminine, and over the years he has built a name among the recognized designers in Venezuela.