Paid Atelier Internship at Celine / Deadline Monday!

London based fashion label Celine are looking for an Atelier Intern.

Main duties
ā€¢ Be confident when tracing patterns and cutting fabric
ā€¢ Develop the skill of flat pattern cutting from vintage and ready-made garments
ā€¢ Improve speed of pattern cutting while still retaining quality
ā€¢ Improve hand-sewing and machine-sewing skills
ā€¢ Create test samples for designers
ā€¢ Develop autonomy in preparing fusing sample tests for presentation to designers
ā€¢ Ensure attention to detail when pressing and preparing garments for fittings
ā€¢ Ensure quality when making final small alterations before fittings

Skills & Experience
Flat pattern cutting, draping & toiling, sewing, fabric development

This position is ideal for someone who would like:
ā€¢ To develop knowledge and ability to work in a fast-paced high end luxury design house
ā€¢ To practice and improve key technical skills in a working environment
ā€¢ To develop teamwork and ability to work towards tight deadlines.

Salary –Ā Ā£18,000 per annum
Location –Ā West End, London
Hours –Ā 37.5 hours per week
Internship Length –Ā 6 months
Closing date –Ā November 07, 2016

For more details and to apply go here

Industry talk with milliner Noel Stewart – this Thursday!

This Thursday in LTA, the milliner Noel Stewart will be giving a talk about his practice. 5pm –Ā not to be missed!

Noel Stewart is a London based milliner with international status. Taking inspiration from contemporary art and architecture he continually modernises millinery to creates a fresh and elegant approach to how we dress the head. Noels’ collections combine luxury materials and traditional craftsmanship with contemporary innovation.

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Since establishing his label Noel has designed hats for leading fashion designers includingĀ Roland Mouret,Ā Diesel,Ā Roksanda,Ā Erdem,Ā Hussein Chalayan,Ā Richard Nicoll,Ā Jaeger,Ā Marc by Marc Jacobs,Ā Holly Fulton, Sibling, Viktor & Rolf, Ryan Lo, Gareth Pugh,Ā andĀ JW Anderson. His continuing work with such designers reflects the relevance of his role in contemporary fashion.

Off the catwalk Noel Stewart has acquired a loyal fan-base. His hats have been worn byĀ Keira Knightly, Lady Gaga,Ā Florence Welch,Ā Kylie MinogueĀ andĀ Beth Ditto.

Now open at the Barbican – The Vulgar – Fashion Redefined

13 October 2016 – 5 February 2017

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Potent, provocative and sometimes shocking, the word vulgar conjures up strong images, ideas and feelings in us all.Ā The VulgarĀ is the first exhibition to explore the inherently challenging but utterly compelling territory of taste in fashion, from the renaissance through to contemporary design. Examining the constantly evolving notion of vulgarity in fashion whilst revelling in its excesses, you are invited to think again about exactly what makes something vulgar and why it is such a sensitive and contested term.

Drawn from major public and private collections worldwide, The Vulgar showcases over 120 stunning objects, ranging from historical costumes to couture and ready-to-wear looks, with contributions from leading contemporary designers such asĀ Walter van Beirendonck,Ā ChloĆ©,Ā Christian Dior,Ā Pam Hogg,Ā Charles James,Ā Christian Lacroix,Ā Lanvin,Ā Moschino,Ā Miuccia Prada,Ā Agent Provocateur,Ā Elsa Schiaparelli,Ā Philip Treacy,Ā UNDERCOVER,Ā Viktor & Rolf,Ā Louis VuittonĀ andĀ Vivienne Westwood.

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?id=18736

Internship at Roksanda Sample Room

Roksanda Sampling team are looking for suitable interns to help with the making of the next main and pre-collections, you will get to experience all the stages of developing a major womenswear collection. Successful candidate will experience how the sampling department interacts with the design and production teams.
Suitable for applicants who are presently studying a fashion degree or on the placement year
Preferred internship duration is 3 – 6 months
A daily travel allowance of Ā£10 is offered for this role
TASKS
  • Assisting product development team with toiling for fittings,
  • Liaison with pattern cutters and machinists,
  • Working alongside sample cutter;
  • Hand finishing final samples including embroidery,
  • Assisting with finishing trials,
  • Assisting at the photoshoot,
  • Backstage help during London Fashion Week
Ā SKILLS
  • Good knowledge of fabrics and garment construction,
  • Confident in hand/machine sewing,
  • Excellent organizational and communication skills,
  • Strong attention to detail,
  • Candidate would have a positive and enthusiastic attitude.
**** PLEASE SPECIFY THE DATES OF YOUR AVAILABILITY IN YOUR APPLICATION
To apply go here

Film Club starts this Wednesday with Blade Runner

The first of the Fashion and Textiles Design ‘Film Club’ series starts this Wednesday 5th October.

The first screening, chosen by programme leader, Cecilia Langemar will be the 1980’s Ridley Scott classic ‘Blade Runner’.Ā This visually spectacular, noir thriller has been a huge inspiration to many artists and designers.

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Please join us for this opportunity to see it on the big screen.

Film Screenings are 16.00-18.00pm in Lecture Theatre B.

Love Thy Denim at Winchester Discovery Centre

27 August – 23 OctoberĀ 

An impressive costume exhibition exploring the origins and versatility of denim, from its workwear heritage, to becoming the fabric of our everyday lives. From the ā€˜Wild Westā€™ to Vivienne Westwood, mass production jeans to handcrafted spectacles, we present the many faces of our beloved denim.

Free entry

In conjunction with the exhibition isĀ Love Thy Denim lecture: Heritage and Renaissance

Thursday 20th October 2016 –Ā 7.30pm

Winchester Discovery Centre

A lively lecture by Mohsin Sajid, the UKā€™s denim aficionado and owner of label Endrime. This fascinating talk, for denim enthusiasts and aspiring designers, will detail the history of the cloth and origins of jeans.

Mohsin brings his unique perspective as a designer and consultant to major denim brands and discusses the emergence of a denim renaissance in Britain and beyond.

Price: Ā£5.00 per person

IDENTITY AND DESIRE – LEVIā€™S X ARTS THREAD DESIGN COMPETITION 2017

An excellent competition has just launched with Levi’s x Arts Thread. Read the details below and consider entering!

PRIZE: A paid 10 week Design internship at Leviā€™s San Francisco Headquarters in summer 2016. As part of the internship youā€™ll get work with the best denim experts on the planet, and visit the legendary Leviā€™s Archive and the Eureka Innovation Lab.

THE BRIEF

One of the most important roles of Design is to create an identity and a clear product aesthetic that reflects and amplifies the character of the brand. As designers, we create identity and desire. We create value by creating newness, emotional story-driven products that, like our old 501ā€™s, become coveted collectorsā€™ items of the future.

The concept behind Leviā€™sĀ® Made & CraftedĀ® builds on the legacy of the Leviā€™s brand, its authenticity, its soul, and project that into the future using todayā€™s best materials and construction techniques. Quality and thoughtfulness is whatā€™s luxury today. Itā€™s the special things beyond just the price tag.

Made & Crafted also formed the basis of a collaboration between Made & Crafted and Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh for a new Fall/Winter 2016 collection, which debuted on the Paris catwalks earlier this year, and again for his 2017 Resort collection this June. It went so well that Virgil came back to our Eureka Innovation Lab and our Made & Crafted team, to design a special 100-piece limited edition ā€œMade-in-Eureka Leviā€™s Made & Crafted x Off-Whiteā€ collection.

Write a manifesto. We want to see what your Made & Crafted stands for. How do you take what Made & Crafted looks like today and push it into the future? What makes it different and yet undisputedly Leviā€™sĀ®? How would you describe it to a friend?

Create the future of your Made & CraftedĀ® world.

DELIVERABLES

Entries Must Include:

1.Ā Trend Report – Trend is about understanding human nature. The changes in peopleā€™s values and expectations. Weā€™d like you to join dots between macro, retail, catwalk, street trendsā€“ā€“ and how they have influenced your design.

2.Ā The Tribe – describe the type of person this collection is aimed at. What do they like/do? Bring them to life – a combination of words and pictures.

3.Ā The Made & Crafted Identity: Show the visual identity for the brand. Do this anyway you like ā€“ for instanceā€¦What does packaging look like? Hang tags, pocket flashers, bags? Was does a store look like? Physical, Online? Create the ecosystem, the Made & Crafted world. The experience.

4.Ā Design drawings: 4 – 8 outfits. Menā€™s, Womenā€™s, unisex ā€“ any combination. Weā€™ll leave the genders up to you.

*Your submission images must be in JPEG format with maximum size of 5MB per image.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Open to anyone worldwide over who is –

  • enrolled in a Fashion Design program with an accredited college/university.
  • graduating between September 2017 ā€“ June 2018.

ENTRY: Free to enter

DEADLINE:Ā November 30 2016 MIDNIGHT EST

LINK TO ENTER:Ā IDENTITY AND DESIRE – LEVIā€™S X ARTS THREAD DESIGN COMPETITION 2017

Judy Blame: Never Again

29 Jun 2016Ā ā€“Ā 4 Sep 2016 at The Institute of Contemporary Arts

The first major solo exhibition by accessories designer, art director and fashion stylist Judy Blame.

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Safety pins, buttons, badges, pearls, bottle tops, cutlery, plastic bags, toy soldiers and keys form an inventory of objects that Blame has innovatively adapted to create his trademark jewellery and other accessories.

The exhibition is presented as a montage rather than a chronology that brings together an arrangement of artefacts, including clothing, collages, jewellery, fashion editorials, sketchbooks and T-shirts alongside unique commissions that bear witness to Blameā€™s tactile, thought-provoking, approach to fashion and his propensity towards collaboration and experimentation.

Read more here

Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu

19 June – 18 September 2016 at The Camden Arts Centre

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Making & Unmaking, curated by Duro Olowu (b.ā€‰1965, Lagos), is the latest in our series of artist-selected shows. Duro Olowu is a celebrated fashion designer whose bold innovations with pattern, colour and shape reveal his early influences living between Nigeria and Europe, and his ongoing fascination with the world. His fluency with diverse aesthetics can be seen in the clothes he makes as well as the exhibitions he has curated, which combine antique textiles with his own fabric designs, bringing together discordant colours and patterns alongside disparate cultural forms.

Filling all three galleries, the Central Space, Reading Room and Garden, this exhibition draws together over 70 artists from aroundĀ the world spanning this century and the last, including 19th century textiles made by unknown hands. Individually, each workĀ has a story to tell; collectively, they beginĀ a conversation in which visual, narrativeĀ and thematic relationships unfold. This eclectic collage of works, some of which have strong political undercurrents, addresses issues surrounding cultural identity, sexuality and the representation of the body. Olowuā€™s exhibition invites a multifaceted journey of encounters with the intuition, skill and visionĀ of the artists represented within it.

General Studio Student Internship at Osman

OSMAN, THE EPONYMOUS LABEL FROM BRITISH BORN DESIGNER OSMAN YOUSEFZADA, MADE ITS DEBUT IN 2008 AT LONDON FASHION WEEK. OSMANā€™S UNIQUE ARCHITECTURAL ā€“ ELEGANT AESTHETIC AND STRONG, SCULPTURAL DESIGNS BOTH FLATTER AND CELEBRATE THE WOMANā€™S BODY, QUALITIES WHICH HAVE ESTABLISHED THE DESIGNER AS ONE OF LONDONā€™S MOST EXCITING TALENTS.
Job Purpose
To assist the whole team in general studio work, working closely with pattern cutters, product developers and machinists.
Candidate
  • Should have a high level of pattern knowledge, garment construction, attention to detail, lay planning and take a logical and pro-active approach to problem solving.
  • Can work under pressure and deadlines
  • Good team worker
  • Able to multitask
  • Hardworking
  • Fluent English written and verbally.
  • Must still be in education during the 6 month internship i.e. placement year
Roles:
  • Tracing off patterns
  • Be able to have knowledge when cutting out fabric and lay planning, being able to make good use of fabric consumption
  • Work closely with the pattern cutters, product developers and machinists to ensure clear communication.
  • Able to help other departments if needed
  • Check patterns are correct before cutting
  • General house keeping
  • Source fabrics and trims when needed
Minimum 6 months internship, start ASAP and travel expenses paid for. Please send a copy of your CV and Covering letter via the link here. Only successful applicants will be contacted.