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Quality, Reliability, Consultation

Located in the heart of fashionable East London London (five minutes from Old Street), The Sampling Studio is a boutique sampling unit managed by experienced fashion designers, dedicated to providing a caring, comprehensive and uncompromising quality of service.  

We believe that the sampling unit service we offer is unique as we offer pattern checking as standard, and unlike many other sampling units, we put the quality of your garments first.  

Working with on

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fashion illustration by Irina V. Ivanova

fashion illustration by Irina V. Ivanova.

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versatile drawing styles, variety of art media( watercolor, digital rendering, pencil, acrylic paining ) and broad selection of themes ( children's, fashion history inspired, contemporary)
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Inflating Skirts and Diode Dresses

I absolutely love this collection of intoxicatingly strange and ingenious art/fashion pieces, created by ex-Project Runway contestant and imaginative designer Diana Eng as part of her Fairytale Fashion educational program. The program is a brilliant and innovative series of video showcases that document Eng's creation of a collection of cutting edge fashion proto-types, using laser cutters, 3D printers and electronics, as well as a variety of other techniques. Each piece is not only beautiful, b

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For pattern digitizing services please visit our website:

www.smartpatternmaking.com

 

For pattern digitizing services please visit our website:

www.smartpatternmaking.com

 

Apparel pattern digitizing services are now available to manufacturing companies, designers and anyone who has a hard copy of a pattern that need to be inputted into a cad system for further pattern modifications.

Companies that can afford to buy Thirty thousand dollars state of the art digitizing equipment can now provide afford

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by: Kirsten Lea via Benjamin Kanarek Blog

 

 

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As I flew home from New York, I reflected upon the runway shows I had seen last week.

Donna Karan’s Valentines Day show was the perfect winter/fall collection. Old Hollywood Glamour meets La Dolce Vita. Stunning use of texture, including fur. Hourglass silhouettes, accessorized with pearls. Her pieces were elegant, sensual and sophisticated.

This was Donna Karan’s finest collection in several years and my absolute favorite of all the shows from Mercedes B

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MARKER COPYING AND PLOTTING SERVICES TEL: 323-839-1720
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When making a Pattern or making a marker for a given design in the apparel industry many times young designers and small start up companies can not afford the cost of a state of the art plotter due to high cost and maintenance service required periodically to maintain these digital plotters running.


Fortunately, you are not obligated to pay twenty thousand dollars for a state of the art paper-plotting machine when y

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Behind The Scenes With Polyvore



You may know Polyvore as that pretty site social media/social commerce website that allows to play virtual fashion stylist with Chanel, Alexander McQueen, and Prada. With all its cool features, it’s no wonder that this mix and match fashion platform has more than six million unique monthly visitors, garnered $8.1 million in funding, and has recently recruited two people from Google to head the biz. The idea is so unique that this start-up company has caught the eye of trendsetters in both the bu

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Fashion Model Photography


Part of being a fashion photographer, it is fun and interesting when working with fresh models. Yet it is important that the digital studio photographer behaves professionally on the shoot.

Here are some other photography tips to enhance your experience when working with a fashion model:

1. You should give your model clear instructions to your studio. Make sure they are specific as you do not want him or her getting lost.

2. Discuss the direction of the story and the shoot with the model during the

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"Be*ing" Creative

“Be*ing” creative requires a state of fluid e.motion to bring inspiration into form.The experiment with Nuno felting came about during a conversation with some friends and the opportunity to test run this concept came “alive” overnight. Things happen quickly when it is meant to be, whether we choose it or not. Our “gifts “ show up, suddenly, appearing out of the blue and it’s here, requiring actions. The mixed media piece of wearable design consists of using wool fleece Nuno on silk that has bee
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Brother Digital Garment Printer

I often receive questions from new designers regarding where they can find printers to create sample runs of their designs. This is not a printing service, but I thought that some of you would be interested in learning about an option of printing your own t-shirts. The Brother GT-541 uses ink jet technology that prints on many garments in high quality color directly from a computer. This ink jet garment printer is as simple to operate as a desktop printer, which can be networked with multiple
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