Some friends asked me what I was doing, and I said: It sounds good to call a costume designer, but now I am calling a costume maker. My business scope includes: clothing customization for enterprises, schools, groups. Clothing design development and production for brand customers. Design development and production for wholesale market customers. The difference is that some as long as the design artwork, some to do the order. Of course, there are also some niche and small-scale single product customization, such as T-shirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants dozens of pieces of hundreds of customs and so on.
When I graduated in 2005, I went south to a women's clothing company in Humen, and everything was fresh when I first came out of college. When filling out the treatment, the boss said that the company had just been established, and everyone worked together. Then I asked for 100 less, filled in 2400, the boss said it was originally 2500, why did you still drop yourself by 100 ah, I said the company has just been established, less than a hundred is my small heart, everyone work together. Now think about the real TM silly can be. [Laughing and crying] At that time, eating and living in the company, a single dog, the first month's salary I remember handing home 1500, the remaining hundreds to keep, except for daily necessities, there is no other place to spend money.
The boss is one of the first cattle people in Hubei Province to be sent abroad to study abroad, and after making money, he wants to create a brand of his own, and then he founded the SIIM women's clothing company. For some reason I didn't do it in the end, but I also learned some things and made some small contributions. In addition to the style drawings, I made a VI visual system for the company, and when I opened a physical franchise store, the store design I designed was also adopted by the boss, and was sent to Yichang, Hubei Province, for decoration. I still have a few photos left. Now thank you for how brave it was, haha, and the owner of this shop at that time was a woman, and the relationship with my boss was very good, and it was very beautiful, she had a beautiful niece helping her, I wanted to have a story with her niece and didn't have a story, but alas, a very good girl. I still remember the name, called Wang Lan. [Teeth]
Just renovated the photos I took
Completely floor plan drawn with CDR, haha, nothing
Later, the company couldn't do it, so I went to Zhongshan to join my classmates. The job was quickly found, and I went to a clothing company to do design, including: 1 self-publishing, 2 help guests to revise the edition, 3 publish according to the customer's style requirements. Basically, IT is mainly BASED. What is AN BRAND? It is that others use their own brand name, hangtags, masters or whatever cars to the clothes, and then the clothes are produced by others themselves.
Later, the exhibition turned around, opened his own design studio, and then the underwear was lost, and [covered his face] was still in debt. These are not the things to be said today, today we are talking about some things about clothing design.
First of all: I personally feel that to be a good clothing designer, we must first have a good understanding of our traditional culture or have a strong willingness to understand, and we must understand as much as possible about some folk customs around the world. For example, there was once a singapore customer, we made him children's clothing, the cooperation is also very good, but there is a short sleeve how can not sell, we are all wondering, a very good looking style, how can not walk it, and then the customer feedback: the blue of the T-shirt will only appear when they are funeral. So I suddenly realized that the blue was a forbidden color, and it was still on children's clothing.
Second: a good ability to express. For example, the customer asks: Where is the highlight of this model? I don't think it's any different from last year's one? As a designer, or design director, how do you answer this question?
Some time ago, a friend's son graduated from college and wanted to enter the industry to do fashion design, so I took him with me. Then I took a few days, the child's ideas, thinking, vision are very good, the only deficiency is that the expression ability is relatively weak, in the process of dialogue with me, it is obvious that he wants to say, but does not know how to express the situation. Of course, I think this is also very simple, because he does not understand some professional knowledge, so he does not know how to express it, and he does not know how to ask me. I have repeatedly stressed to him that I will not ask, and I must not pretend to understand. Encourage him to read more books, write and draw more, and now the costume design assistant has done a very smooth job.
Again: it is best to have a certain hand-drawn ability, paint beautifully better, in many cases, your inspiration is fleeting, so it is best to simply record it with a pen right away, because at that time you do not need to do renderings, do not have to draw very beautifully, the most important thing is to be fast, record the ideas at that time. Good results are later expressed on the computer through process drawings and renderings. Speaking of which, we must mention another point, to have a more comprehensive understanding and understanding of the production process and process, as well as the printing and embroidery process and the washing process.
Finally: more shopping, pay more attention to observe the wear of passers-by, a piece of clothing is not only to cover the body, but also to help themselves show their personal charm and temperament, just so-called: people rely on clothing and horseshoe to rely on photography. [Cover your face] Over time, you will also exercise your own pair of eyes with strong aesthetic ability, and you will become more and more sensitive to color, style, and style.
As a designer, you must walk more through the markets across the country, including: shopping malls, wholesale markets, pedestrian streets, etc., to understand the differences in attitudes and acceptance of clothing between places. Of course, there is also a basic judgment on the price.
For the time being, I nagged so much, in fact, there are many points I have not talked about, if you are interested in listening, I will BB some next time.