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Fashion Design Tutorial 4: Fabrics & Materials

In this video Zoe will talk about fabric and Zoe will give some background on fabrics to get started in a fashion industry and how to approach your design project in terms of selecting fabrics.
Length 37:31
Price Free of charge
Subject Fashion Design
Languages English
Video Transcripts English

About the video

Video #4 in the design process series covers when in the design timeline to start putting your fabric story together and why; the basics of fabric construction; the four main categories of materials; other random vocab; different weights of fabrics; book recommendations for future research; how to get started putting fabrics together for your design project.

Meet the instructors

Zoe Hong is a fashion designer and illustrator who used to teach university fashion classes until her YouTube channel took over her life. She makes videos about design, illustration, color theory, industry real talk and FAQ, fashion business, art supply hauls and reviews and she has all her videos organized by playlists. Zoe believes hard work and dedication is more important than “talent” when it comes to having a successful career.

Video syllabus

Fabric Story
Fabric Construction Fundamentals
Materials Categories
Weights of Fabrics
Book Recommendations