Fashion Design for Leggings

Series Summary

Why design fashion for models? According to J.P. Prewitt, famous hand model of Bulova fame, models are genetically constructed to become something great: “They’re in peak physical condition. They can gain entry to the most secure places in the world. And most important of all, models don’t think for themselves. They do as their told.” It seems only natural for mothers to want their girls designing fashion and accessories for these legendary lookers. Because of the popularity of shows like Project Runway, fashion design has become a potential career readily consumed by our tweenagers and teenie-boppers. In this free fashion design video series, professional designer Laurel Armstrong teaches you how design pants and bottoms. You will learn illustration tips for conveying jeans, skirts, and shorts, including waistlines, leg length and cuff styles. Laurel gives you tips and explanations for designer shorthand and shows you quality examples to help your own croquis and fashion design efforts.

Video Transcript

"Ready we are on our first variation of pants or bottoms, shorts, just not skirts. They're going to be pants, Capri's, shorts, leggings. The first one I'm going to show you is leggings. Which, obviously seem to be very self explanatory. But, never hurts to show that way you've got it right. Because, if you do what I say it's going to be right. These leggings I have as being a little bit below the knee and it also it seems like they'd be so easy to do. But, right here the curve that you have on the leggings. That, if you will remember back when I told you about the lines of the body. You have the smiles and the frowns. It's going to be a curve. If it's below the waist it's going to curve up. But, you don't necessarily have to do that every time. That's what it should be to show a mass in volume. But, for a totally different look say you wanted to do it the opposite way and you want your leggings to curve downward like that. It just creates an entirely different silhouette, which even if it doesn't feel right different silhouette's are always worth trying. You never know what's going to come of them."