Virtual Fashion Designing

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By Serena Spinello
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Design Your Own Online

Virtual Fashion Designing is a great way to make your unique style ideas come to life. There are various online programs and software devoted to helping users create and transform their sketches onto next level. Choose your own patterns, textures and fabrics and to design a range of fashions for business or just for fun.

Features

Virtual fashion design programs act as a simulation of customary fashion design practices by doing a lot of the work for you.

Significance

These programs make it easy to manage specific details (like measurements for sizing) by allowing users to simply input the numbers and dimensions they'd like to begin with. Additionally, many let you create a virtual model that you can try your designs on.

Designing for Beginners

My Fashion Plate and sites like DressUpGirl.net, MyScene.com, DressUpGames.com and the Designer Fashion Game on FashionFantasygame.com, let users become a fashion designer by putting together outfits, crafting new clothes and participating in games and activities.

Virtual-Fashion.com

For those who are older or more serious about designing fashion, the 3D software company Reyes Infografica has their Virtual Fashion division and is the maker of the first plug-ins for commercial cloth simulation software.

Types

Virtual Fashion manufactures the programs: Virtual Fashion Basic 1.0 for beginners. They have other programs such as VF Pro 1.5, VF Models and VF Show which let users create and share professional quality 3D garments. VF Pro 1.5 and VF models cost a fee to use, while VF show is free.

Identification & Other Products

Fashion Toolbox Design and Colour Matters are software programs specifically intended for and used by in fashion schools, design students, and professionals in the apparel, textile and accessories design business (see the resources section).