eHow launches Android app: Get the best of eHow on the go.
Summary: Function is important in fashion design, even in panties and lingerie. Learn to design panties and lingerie collections from a designer in this free fashion design video.
Laurel Armstrong is in graduate school for fashion design and is knowledgeable about everything fashion: design, sketching, pattern drafting, draping, sewing construction, etc. Laurel...read more
"When you're designing stuff, remember that functionality, always comes in to play. Unless you're designing a couture collection, which is going to go run down the runway, and nobody's ever going to buy it, it's going to be more of a show. Think about functionality, and you can have functionality with good design. You can have functionality with a little bit of pizazz. This was from my collection, that was inspired by She-ra and I did mostly, boy shorts that were comfortable, that if you were a superhero, you can move in them. You can go save the day. You can go save dinner for somebody. It's real life level, blown up and made fantastical, but still within keeping with a set frame of reference. These again, boy shorts with design detail, and they have a more straight across, menswear inspired waistband, but the legs are girlier ,because they're arched up, and then I did my central panel as a design detail, and I added a band at the legs, and a band at the waist."