Fashion: from inspiration to design to product and collection

using fashion history and icons in present day designs

we use muslin for draping and creating a toile, either working on the grade line or on the bias for a more flexible stretch - a better hang, creating more movement.
we can drape around our form creating looseness or fullness with pleats or tucks. we can add depth or tightness, creating any look we want, developing the drape to fix the body by smoothing it down the form (using pins on the form) clipping the fabric reduces tightnesses and helps ease tension
and use chalk pen or pencil to create your seams (to know where to cut and sew together - remembering when transferring to paper to add seam allowance etc)

if designing from paper we use a croquis, in full body, drawing on our ideas and style details
our ideas should be express and understood clearly from the sketch. the crouquis is elongated, for design process (9 0r 10 head proportions as opposed to the realistic 7) another way is through technical drawing, more stylised and precise.

in a collection there is always a core theme, perhaps inspiration, an era look, shape, colour, silhouette, design detail, technique,  etc,

mood boards are also used as a style inspiration, A frame of reference that the designer can work on and alter to their own ideas, ingesting the feel of the mood board and reimagining it for today.