How can I get inspiration for fashion design?

I’ve been wanting to practice designing clothing, but I find it hard to get inspiration from anything. I also need help deciding on color schemes. Any ideas?

Often learning about how other people work is helpful when you are trying to get started. Do you have cable tv? Lifetime TV is now running Project Runway, a competition with aspiring fashion designers – it’s on 10pm Thursday nights where I live and it has reruns at other times. I’d suggest watching – it’s a great show and you would get to see how these designers work. You could also see some of the old shows that were on the Bravo network -http://www.bravotv.com/project-runway/season-5/videos

http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-runway

That being said, inspiration can come from anything – look around you – nature, colors, traffic, architecture, objects, street signs, vintage fashion, movies, people – you can really get inspiration from essentially anything. What you have to do is be open to things, look, go for walks, talk to people. Heck you could design a whole line on people arguing. If you look at the essence of what something is, what makes something interesting, then think how you can apply that to something else. For instance, the word calm – it conveys a number of things, quiet, peace, soft colors, time, endings, ocean, water, moods … try some words and see what you can come up with, then try some ‘things,’ see where it leads you. One of the assignments on Project Runway was walking around New York City – signs, buildings, people, traffic, noise – it was a great assignment that produced really interesting designs.

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2 Responses to “How can I get inspiration for fashion design?”

  1. Gracie, on February 16th, 2010 at 8:08 pm Said:

    Often learning about how other people work is helpful when you are trying to get started. Do you have cable tv? Lifetime TV is now running Project Runway, a competition with aspiring fashion designers – it’s on 10pm Thursday nights where I live and it has reruns at other times. I’d suggest watching – it’s a great show and you would get to see how these designers work. You could also see some of the old shows that were on the Bravo network -http://www.bravotv.com/project-runway/season-5/videos
    http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-runway

    That being said, inspiration can come from anything – look around you – nature, colors, traffic, architecture, objects, street signs, vintage fashion, movies, people – you can really get inspiration from essentially anything. What you have to do is be open to things, look, go for walks, talk to people. Heck you could design a whole line on people arguing. If you look at the essence of what something is, what makes something interesting, then think how you can apply that to something else. For instance, the word calm – it conveys a number of things, quiet, peace, soft colors, time, endings, ocean, water, moods … try some words and see what you can come up with, then try some ‘things,’ see where it leads you. One of the assignments on Project Runway was walking around New York City – signs, buildings, people, traffic, noise – it was a great assignment that produced really interesting designs.
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  2. SyntheticElegance, on February 16th, 2010 at 8:13 pm Said:

    Some inspiration/color inspiration available here:
    http://www.thesyntheticelegance.blogspot.com
    References :

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