In the introduction it is all going wrong already. Fashion Designe. At some point I figured having both a financial and availability problem by being completely broke, even so some Hells Angels and BKA Officers made millions based on recording my home alone singing, and the absence of appropriate clothing for Skateboarding.
Cloth was cheap and so was a suing machnie. Skateboarding clothing needs to be baggy to enable free movement, be able to deal with a lot of sweat and withstand scratching and robbing tarmac. This means heavy duty T-Shirts and Workwear level trousers in not to get baggy sizes that are both tight at the belt line and wide at the legs. The Original Levi's was not made from cotton, but from used tents that were made by hemp which is still the most durable natural fibre for making cloths.
Too keep a long story short, I studied Fashion Designe by getting hold of the books of the Paris Art School and got into textile materials.
First of all, I never reached the levels of the Grand Matre d'Art from in no standing order Karl Lagerfeld, Sean Paul Gaultier, Tom Ford or Valentino, but I read the same books and understand the work process.
They all can sue, but that is actually not needed except you realy want to mess in the highest leagues of one of the biggest forms of art today. Designing clothing today is a big process and needs understanding of the human body and also mind, materials and production ways.
So, obviously Trisha Fast Fashion Starlet, is out of her mind jumping like a flummy ball up and down when asked to create her own line of clothing, while I was just happy to have no holes in the pants after a night of skating, but these are the mistakes done.
The material samples are way too small and so are the colour sets. Every Matre has way bigger samples and also different lights to check the colours. Then, it all starts with drawings and all Matres are great painters. Just Google Fashion Designes drawings. Wolfgang Joop is a great painter of fashion and his fashion drawings are perfectly showing how Matres work. They show with simply slightly exagerated paint strokes a form that then gets further discussed and bespoke in the team.
For those in Fast Fashion or Street Brands it would need samples of existing clothes that then get discussed about changes in design such as wider at the knees, hipline or shorter at the belly, to go for stretch or loose material and what quality the material should have to define the characteristics like shiny, sweat absorbing or resisting, warm or wind open, seethrough or all cover.
In the same way every shopping woman graps a skirt with the whole hand while hanging to decide, if they further check it, the possible material samples need to be way bigger in size.
The character all Designers of backyard Streetsport, to serious Street Fashion and also Matre d'Art have in comon is that they observe both humans and environment they will make cloths for.
A parking lot, a posh restaurant and cinema night out or the luxerious city centers of our metropoles, it needs to fit.
