Author archives: Zhishuang Fan

Brief history of fashion in pictures. This is a very useful tool, equivalent to a guide, convenient for me to do more in-depth research.

When I was researching tailoring information, I found a website in which many pictures introduce fashion timeline. This is a good resource for me to intuitively see the clothes of which era you like, so that I can conduct further research according to that era.

The reasons that I choose the following movies are I want to know more history and I’m really fascinated with the delicate details of royal outfit. The Other Boleyn Girl The Other Boleyn Girl is a 2008 historical romantic drama film directed by Justin Chadwick. It is a fictionalised account of the lives of 16th-century aristocrats Mary Boleyn, one-time mistress of King Henry VIII, and her …

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Congratulations on a beautiful jacket in the making. Your hard work and very good skill are evident throughout and your efforts to keep up with the demos is impressive. The jacket can benefit further from a nice press with a damp press cloth to tame the gabardine. The lapels are nicely padstitched and the shaping …

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Tutor told me when the pocket was done, it should be in this way.

Through this unit of learning, I have learned a lot. The most important thing for me is to discover a problem I never realized before: I don’t know how to develop fabrics. Because I use to study fashion design, in order to complete the design, I need to do a lot of jobs: research, extended …

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The object is a large scale sculpture composed of thousands of folded and crumpled pieces of aluminum bottle caps sourced from local alcohol recycling stations and bound together with copper wire. Looking at it from a distance, it will give you the illusion that it is a soft cloth, and when you approach it, you …

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It really takes a long time to finish them.

I feel a little bit boring about the fixed pattern. So I learn some hand-weave techniques from library and online videos: