What does your style statement say about you? Do your fashion accessories help you to be original or stay trendy? Has your fashion concept and practice been strikingly different? Fashion often walks a line between conformity and creativity, making its way to mainstream acceptance or categorised exclusivity. But when people can’t hold back their urge […]
“If you can’t tell where to draw a line, that line can’t take you far.” This is true with every profession. A professional can’t survive with just knowing his job unless he/she is serving machines. When it comes to picking professionals, a knowledgeable, happy and helpful candidate wins the vote. To create better professionals, like […]
Gone are the days of boring mannequins displays in shop windows. Today, with the growing competition, many retailers have come up with innovative window displays ideas such as the use of neon lights, flashy colours, 3D installations, etc. The idea behind visual merchandising is to create visually appealing displays that lure customers to the store, […]
With inspirations all around us, it’s important to be open-minded and see the beauty around us to help fuel our creative designs. Nature has always been a popular source of inspiration followed by students at Hamstech Institute. From designing garments to making matching jewellery, to setting the theme of your house or photographing moments, nature […]
For garment manufacturers and fashion brands, riding the wave of a fashion life cycle time and again is an essential exercise. Creating trends, maintaining it and profiting from them is all a cyclic activity that keeps the fashion designers and marketers on their toes. The cyclic phenomenon of the rise and fall of a fashion […]
A fashion designing process has many stages from the ideation and illustration to the stitching and finalising of the collection. At these different stages, you work with a variety of tools. Let’s discuss these tools used in the different processes of fashion designing. Sketching/Illustration Sketching gives a tangible artistic version of your design idea. […]
With the rapid change in the professional industry today, people barely find the time to pursue a course or a career where their passion lies. Be it a working professional or a homemaker, everyone has one particular passion which they wish to pursue and hone into a skill. For every individual, time is money. Considering […]
Fashion design is a study that is far beyond just designing. So let us understand a yet another important aspect that is fashion communication? It involves the process of channeling the message of your brand to its consumer. All things considered, there are several pivotal activities that transform ideas into sales happen by virtue of […]
Every fashionable person believes in the very popular saying, “shoes reveal a lot about a person’s identity”. Footwear is an essential part of our lifestyle and style statement. It is a formidable presumption, albeit a true one, that footwear reveals more about a person than anything else he/she wears. It tells how groomed one really […]
Fasting and feasting are the two most commonly known aspects of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr. During the thirty-days of ‘Ramadan’ every individual following Islam observes a ritual of fasting, from dawn to sunset. ‘Eid’, on the other hand, marks the end of Ramadan and is a religious holiday, celebrated by the Muslims around the world. […]