fashion design

With Fashion design there is meant a subject that has designing and the creating of Clothing fashion in it. The first person that you could actually call a “Couturier” was a man called Charles Frederick Worth. Charles was not just any couturier, but he was also the originator of the Fashion style called “Haute Couture”. Haute Couture is French and means as much as “high sewing” or “high dressmaking”.
Charles achieved that clients thought about a particular fashion style when they heard the word fashion, he created traditions, fashion collections that were presented on mannequins. After Worth’s time of designing and changing the women world it was the time for somebody new, it was the time for Paul Poiret, that stuck to one’s principles and continued with Haute Couture. Paul was also the one that changed something, for what women would be thankful for him their whole lives. He began to remove the corsets out of the fashion. Other designers got on stage following the traditions of Worth and Poiret, such as Patou, Vionnet, Jeanne Lanvin, Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent. So many great and famous designer that are still in our hearts today. Of course everywhere where you can find fashion you will always find fashion icons. Almost every fashion icon was a woman. Women such as Marilyn Monroe or Audrey Hepburn, powerful, emancipated women that were fighting for their rights. The fought and they triumphed, they won a place in every girl’s heart.

Most of you already heard of the two styles Haute Couture and
Prêt-à-porter, but do all of you really know what those two styles mean? Or what the difference is?
An Haute Couture Collection is a very exclusive collection that is made for the higer class under us. Haute Couture is made to order/ tailored. The look and fit take priority over the cost of materials and the time it takes to make.
Prêt-à-porter instead is Ready-to-wear. It is not tailored, because ist made for the usual sizes. It is a cross between Haute Couture and mass market. Ready-to-wear collections are usually presented by fashion houses each season during a period known as Fashion Week. This takes place on a city-wide basis and occurs twice a year.
A very special fashion designer that combined art and fashion in one was Alexander McQueen. First he started to design dresses for his three sisters, where he got to the taste to became a fashion designer. McQueen studied on the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, where he got in 1992 his Master of Arts. Alexander’s style was not that what you would have called for everyone. It was unique.

You may not noticed it, but in this picture there is actually a model under those snakes, for some its pure horror to lay under snakes, but for Alexander McQueen it was an illusion, that he wanted to show with his fashion and combination with nature, animals, just something different.
Everybody wanted him to design something for them. Givenchy, Gucci and other fashion houses worked together with him, but also Celebrities themselves, such as Nicole Kidman, Penélope Cruz, Sarah Jessica Parker or Rihanna have frequently been spotted wearing Alexander McQueen clothing to events. Since 2006 McQueen was designing mostly costumes for Lady Gaga. By the end of 2007, Alexander McQueen had boutiques in London, New York, Los Angeles, Milan and Las Vegas. McQueen’s death was a shock for everybody. He was found dead in the morning of the 11th February 2010 in his wardrobe.
McQueen’s was something beautiful. It was very abstract, outré, bizarre and fancy, probably not for every event, but his fashion was pure art. Art on a person.
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