Description
Follow along as Kenneth cuts out and constructs a demi-couture day dress. He will demonstrate the successive stages of construction while explaining just how and, more importantly, why each of these steps is necessary for a fine garment. From laying out the fitted pattern to the finishing touches on the lining, Kenneth will teach you all of the steps necessary to execute a beautiful demi-couture dress, techniques that translate to formal garments as well.
What you will learn:
- Interlinings, their purpose, different interlining options, and how to choose the best one for the project
- Properly applying the interlinings to the fashion fabric.
- Sewing inside curved seams to outside curved seams.
- Tacking down seam allowances.
- Sewing intersecting seams so they meet exactly.
- Kenneth’s trick for perfectly-spaced saddle or pick-stitching.
- Beautiful installations of the invisible zipper and the traditional hand-picked zipper.
- Lining fabric choices.
- Eliminating unnecessary seams in a lining pattern.
- Hand-installing a lining in a sleeveless bodice as well as a sleeved bodice.
- Beautiful finishing details inside the lining.
Who should attend:
- Anyone who desires to sew beautiful couture garments.
- Dressmakers who want to improve their skills and the products they sell.
- Alteration professionals who wish to understand and alter couture garments.
- Designers starting out who want to build their designs with the best, most-efficient techniques.
Difficulty level:
This course is intended for the intermediate to advanced sewist who want to create exceptionally constructed clothing, either for themselves or for clients. The methods shown in this course are practical, efficient, and reliable. This course covers the “how-to” as well as the “why” of the techniques outlined, so the student can reason out solutions to other projects.The project is a day dress, but the techniques are adaptable and relevant to formal garments.
The Expert:
Kenneth D. King is a couture eveningwear designer in New York City. He also teaches as an Adjunct Professor in the Haute Couture Certificate Program at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.
Kenneth started sewing at age 4 for his Barbie, got a degree in fashion merchandising, moved to San Francisco after college, and started his couture business in 1986. He also trained there under a Paris-trained teacher who taught him the Ecole Guerre-Lavigne method of couture patternmaking.
Kenneth’s books include Designer Techniques (1996), Designer Bead Embroidery (2006), and Cool Couture (2008). He has published fifteen instructional books-on-CD on various topics, which can be found at his web site: kennethdking.com
His work is in the permanent collections of a variety of celebrities, as well as the museum permanent collections of the L.A. County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, CA, the Oakland Museum in Oakland, CA, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Dress materials: Dress-weight wools, such as wool or silk tweed, flannel, crepe, or other desired fabrics.
Interlining materials: Silk organza, cotton muslin, rayon broadcloth, cotton flannelette, lightweight tailoring canvas.
Tools: Dual tracing wheel, pressing tools–seam roll, pressing ham, spray bottle for water, steam iron, hand sewing needles, scissors.
Notions: Tracing carbon, different colors, basting thread, fine rayon machine embroidery thread, thread for sewing Guterman polyester is preferred.
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