In the process of learning and improving fashion design, it is very necessary and basic to collect and accumulate professional materials and various information. This is a long-term uninterrupted work.
It is normal that many novices often feel frustrated because they can't get creative when designing. Because the enhancement of people's thinking ability is obtained through continuous study and practice, the more information the human brain accepts and stores, the stronger the related thinking ability will be. Therefore, if beginners want to change this situation, they must first carefully collect and accumulate professional information.
In particular, obtaining information does not mean actually having information. The so-called "amateurs watch the excitement, and experts watch the doorway." If you want to see the "doorway" from the data and help improve your level, only superficial and general browsing will not bring results, especially when it comes to mastering specific design skills such as clothing modeling, material application, color matching method and accessory use. It is suggested to recite memories on the basis of learning. The more styles you remember, the more you can find the methods and laws of design change. The truth that "you can recite poems without knowing how to write" is also applicable to the study of fashion design. Although this method looks a bit stupid, it is very useful.
Of course, in the process of learning, it is far from enough to accumulate only the professional information, because the design method of clothing regeneration from clothing, although very practical, is difficult to get rid of the influence of other people's ideas and get innovation and transcendence from higher demand. Therefore, we need to get more extensive contact with all kinds of information outside our major, such as the achievements of scientific and technological development, the development trend of culture, the works of various artistic categories, and various thoughts and concepts existing in literature, philosophy and music, so as to broaden our knowledge, increase our knowledge, learn from others, and get more enlightenment from them, thus producing better ideas.
In addition, in the face of ever-changing and complicated information, we must learn to summarize and sort it out in a scientific way to facilitate storage and application, delete outdated and useless information in time, capture the latest and most valuable information, and bring convenience to our real use of information. In particular, all kinds of non-professional information can not be used directly, and designers need to learn to sort out, refine, transform and sublimate. These are all manifestations of learning and working ability. Having this ability will not only get twice the result with half the effort in the learning stage, but also benefit a lot in the long career.
Second, we should be good at learning and improving through imitation.
Imitation is the essential feature of advanced life. I remember that American psychologists said that imitation, as one of human behavior patterns, is the result of learning. The use of imitation in the learning process, from the point of view of the behavior itself, should be regarded as a kind of plagiarism and the antonym of creation. It can't show how good its technology or ability is. However, it should be noted that many successful inventions or creations begin with imitation, and imitation should be regarded as a good learning method.
For beginners, you can't expect to become a wonderful pen overnight. You should honestly start by imitating other people's designs, just as learning calligraphy requires copying, so you should take imitation as the starting point of learning. Therefore, I would like to suggest that beginners should find a designer you admire and like as soon as possible, and consciously imitate his design skills and style from now on, cultivate feelings and practice skills. At this learning stage, you need to constantly "love the new and hate the old", learn a little from here and there, and finally you can find your own strengths and form your own design style.
It should be reminded that any good learning mode needs correct methods. If your imitation of other people's works is unchangeable, it is not real learning. Learning to draw inferences from others is to imitate the meaning of learning.
Third, constantly improve aesthetic ability and establish self-aesthetics.
Aesthetic ability, also known as "aesthetic ability". It refers to people's ability to understand and evaluate beauty, beautiful things and various aesthetic characteristics, that is, people must have sensibility, judgment, imagination and creativity when they analyze and evaluate various things and phenomena in nature and social life. As a designer, it is very important to cultivate and improve aesthetic ability. People with strong aesthetic ability can quickly discover beauty, capture the essential things hidden in the depths of aesthetic objects, and rise from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge. Only in this way can they create beauty and design beauty. It is difficult to form extraordinary talent only by relying on temporary spirituality and lacking the cultivation of acquired artistic accomplishment.
In fact, everyone with normal IQ can appreciate beauty, which is an innate cognitive ability. The British philosopher Herbert Read once said: "Feeling is a physical gift, which is born, not acquired." He added: "The starting point of beauty is wisdom, and beauty is people's perceptual knowledge of sacred things." It can be seen that everyone has feelings, but in front of beautiful things, the aesthetic enjoyment people get is deep and shallow, lacking, right and wrong, healthy and vulgar. This phenomenon has a lot to do with their aesthetic ability and appreciation ability. There is an idiom in our country called "casting pearls before swine", which is often used to satirize people who speak and do things regardless of their targets. In real life, there are differences in aesthetic ability between people. Although the formation and improvement of aesthetic ability is related to human physiological evolution, what is more important is the acquisition of cultural and artistic knowledge and aesthetic edification, from continuous learning and practice. The design masters who have made great achievements in the field of clothing have demonstrated their outstanding design talents according to their profound knowledge.
Therefore, if you want to learn fashion design well, you must have more contact with related art categories, such as listening to concerts and watching art exhibitions, so that the beauty of all kinds of art can infect and edify you constantly, and you can deepen your understanding and understanding of beauty, so that you can have extraordinary artistic taste. Remember, don't pay attention to others saying that your eyes are low. On the contrary, I think this evaluation is gratifying, because only those with high vision can be promoted to "master", and those with low vision will never get master.
Fourth, make yourself sensitive as soon as possible.
The initial inspiration and clues of design creation often come from all aspects of life. Some things seem ordinary or insignificant, but they may contain many flashes. If designers turn a blind eye to them, can't find their existence and can't capture and use them in time, then many useful design materials will be missed.
Therefore, it is very important to cultivate your sensitivity to things from the beginning of learning. The so-called sensitivity refers to a person's rapid psychological or physiological response to external things. Designers can respond quickly to their own image characteristics, color emotions, texture aesthetics and so on. Rich associations are generated from any landscape or thing outside and through psychological activities, thus stimulating design inspiration and obtaining creative breakthroughs. For example, Mr Pierre Cardin is a designer who is very sensitive to things. He can find its use value in clothing modeling from the cornice modeling of the Forbidden City in Beijing, and design the famous shoulder-tilting modeling, which brings him great social reputation and commercial benefits.
It can be seen how important it is for us to find interesting, interesting and valuable things from seemingly ordinary things and commonplace things. This ability is one of the important qualities to be an excellent designer. As a learner, we must pay attention to this.
5. Make yourself fashionable as soon as possible.
We know that whether fashion is popular in the market depends largely on whether it is fashionable and popular. It is hard for us to imagine that a designer with outdated ideas and clothes can make very fashionable and fashionable works. Of course, you don't have to be good-looking to be fashionable. The key is to make your heart have a strong sense of fashion and your thoughts more modern.
Although sometimes all fashionable things are not necessarily beautiful, as a designer, you must have an accepting attitude, don't think in a preconceived way about new ideas and phenomena, and learn to put yourself in the shoes, accept and think, so that your design works can keep pace with the times and even lead the fashion.
Sixth, we should take the initiative to create practical opportunities for ourselves.
Many students in school often complain that there are too few practical teaching arranged by the school. Frankly speaking, this is indeed a problem in existing teaching. Improvement takes time, because there are many reasons involved, and the unilateral efforts of the school are not enough.
However, we must not give up the opportunity of active learning because of the shortage and difficulty of practical teaching in schools. As we all know, fashion design is a practical subject. Only through continuous practice can we truly understand fashion, gain more direct experience and make really good and useful designs. So my advice to you is: you should take the initiative to create practical opportunities for yourself without affecting the normal study of the school, such as participating in various fashion competitions, taking part-time jobs in clothing enterprises, and being an assistant to seniors who serve in enterprises. Although you may not get the opportunity easily, you must believe that the opportunity must be prepared for those who work hard.
7. Learn to communicate, exchange and cooperate with others.
As a designer, it is inseparable from the close cooperation and cooperation of all relevant personnel to successfully complete the design and development tasks and make the products designed by him produce good social and economic benefits. For example, the formulation and improvement of the design scheme need to be discussed with the company's decision makers; The acquisition of market demand information needs to communicate with consumers and customers; The timely acquisition of sales information can not be separated from the help of marketers; Without the cooperation of the purchasing department, it is impossible to provide the sources of various materials; The improvement of technology can not be separated from the cooperation of technicians; The manufacture of products can not be separated from the hard work of the workers; The quality of products can not be separated from the quality inspection department; Product packaging and publicity can not be separated from the efforts of planners; Marketing promotion is inseparable from the efforts of public relations personnel.
Therefore, as a designer, we must establish a sense of teamwork and learn to communicate, exchange and cooperate with others. This kind of ability needs to be exercised and cultivated in school, and efforts should be made to make it a work habit, which is very beneficial to future work.
In the design circle, people call printmakers clothing structural designers. It is called a structural designer because the job of a printmaker is mainly to make the designer's plane clothing renderings three-dimensional and realistic. The graphic design of a piece of clothing is structured by a series of process decomposition of printmakers, so that clothing can be produced from clothing production enterprises in a way suitable for industrial production. In this sense, printmakers are the bridge between clothing design and production.
The designer's treatment of clothing should not only meet the designer's aesthetic, fashionable and personalized requirements, but also meet the requirements of operability, industrialization and economy of the factory. This also means that printmakers should not only understand fashion, but also understand the development trend and equipment performance of various clothing equipment that produce fashion. Compared with the feedback from the equipment sales market on the popularity and performance of machines, the printmaker's feedback on sewing equipment is more forward-looking, instructive and creative.
Forward-looking is because editors have the ability to grasp fashion trends. Printmakers who have given press conferences for famous domestic designers such as, Wu, Wu Haiyan, etc. said, "Printmakers usually have to know one or even three years in advance which sewing equipment will be popular in the market. Because every season's fashion show is held one year in advance, and before the show, various popular elements have been displayed on the floor plan by designers. The process of collecting and shaping these popular elements in designers' minds will take at least a few months. All kinds of popular elements, including fabrics, stitching, piping, etc., can be used to express different styles, and the different expressions of these elements involve different models, which will lead to a large number of use and sales of these models, which has certain reference significance for equipment manufacturers to organize production and sales. Chiffon fabrics widely used by well-known brands such as white-collar workers this year are the popular trend this summer, and the press conference highlighting this popular trend was held last year. Affected by this, sewing machines that adapt to thin materials, especially ultra-thin materials, will sell well this year. "
Nowadays, clothing is paying more and more attention to details, and any treatment of details will be shown on the machine. For example, the stitches of some foreign big-name clothes, such as Armani, are very clean. When a line comes, it covers all the dark lines. There are no dark lines at all. Even the rough lining is no longer treated, tends to be flat, and there are few seams. This trend is bound to make sewing machines that can meet the processing requirements very popular. Any subtle changes such as the brightness of stitches, the size of spacing, the thickness of fabrics, and the splicing of different fabrics. Different fashions and styles will be deduced, and accordingly, different models will be required. Therefore, strengthening communication with printmakers is of great significance to the production orientation of sewing equipment enterprises.
In addition, the technological innovation of sewing equipment and the corresponding functional changes also play an important role in printmaking. Because in the printmaker's work, there is an important content, that is, before each season, to provide clothing designers with the corresponding process information and the latest equipment information, so that designers can integrate it into the design and express their design intentions. This makes editors need a lot of equipment information to understand the functions of each model and the functions that can be realized. However, at present, sewing equipment manufacturers rarely provide relevant information to printmakers, which leads to the lack of corresponding information channels for printmakers.
When it comes to the creative role of printmakers in sewing equipment, printmakers are somewhat helpless and proud. Due to the lack of effective communication with sewing equipment manufacturers, sometimes faced with the designer's technical embodiment of a certain style, the printmaker can't find the corresponding machine and has to replace the equipment himself. This often leads to the improved equipment being widely used by garment factories. Although there is a sense of pride, it adds unnecessary workload to printmakers and craftsmen in factories. What's more, after all, not a professional equipment production technician, the effect can only be unsatisfactory. Therefore, editors very much hope that equipment manufacturers can get involved in the development of products needed by the market in advance, thus forming a virtuous circle in which design promotes equipment innovation and equipment inspires design inspiration.
The three stages that fashion designers must go through in their growth.
Engaged in fashion design, you need to learn the basic theory and expression methods of fashion design. Most designers have completed or are completing this process. However, in the process of learning, many people have two misunderstandings:
First, design is emphasized, while technology is ignored. Teachers and students majoring in fashion design think that they are engaged in art and should focus on the design of works, while cutting and making are the business of craftsmen. This kind of thinking makes it difficult for them to hit the board and can't do it. Because their designs are like castles in the air because of the lack of structural design foundation, such designs have been "killed" before they are put into production.
The second is to emphasize creativity and light practicality. Fashion design is product design, sales volume is the fundamental goal of fashion design, and artistic creativity is the means to achieve the goal. But many people who study fashion design are not recognized by consumers?
At present, the level of consumers in our country is too low, and many designers have this idea. The stationmaster of fashion design once thought so, and he also had his own views on the current situation. It is not surprising that no one cares about designs that are too far away from consumers. As long as you get out of the ideological misunderstanding and work hard according to certain rules, it is natural to become a designer.
To sum up, if you want to be a real designer, you must put down your lofty artist shelf, be willing to be a small apprentice in the market, and firmly establish the consciousness of serving consumers. Mastering the basic theory of fashion design and practicing the basic skills of fashion structure design and production is the first stage of becoming a designer-most people regard themselves as designers after graduation, but they can't solve the problem of poor design inspiration. Even if they rack their brains to create "their own" things, it is difficult to get social recognition. The fundamental reason is the lack of design knowledge and experience, design inspiration and conception, and the lack of accumulation and grasp of market information.
How can I become a fashion designer? A college student majoring in clothing replied: It's very difficult, because there is no money to package themselves and hold a press conference. Others said: At present, the environment for producing designers in China is not good, and designers can't get the attention they deserve in enterprises, so it's difficult for them to become successful.
Is it really difficult to become a fashion designer? Actually, it is not.
Fashion, fashion design, clothing style, vector diagram, printing embroidery, fabric accessories, fashion trends and other best realms pursued by every designer are not the realms that every designer can reach. The main reason is that they don't know how to enter the innovation stage through the accumulation stage. They don't accumulate, and even laugh at the accumulation process of others.