What is the Importance of Illustration in Fashion?
What is the Importance of Illustration in Fashion?
At the moment when your creative juices start flowing, that’s when you start looking for a sheet of paper and a pen to put down your thoughts. And, if you are a fashion designer, you’ll want to illustrate your ideas into a sketch for your reference. Moreover, it’s not just related to designing clothes. Even if you are a jewellery designer, a shoe designer, a manufacturer of designer products or simply a graphic designer, you will still require to sketch your ideas, which is known as Fashion Illustration.
Fashion Illustration is the language of fashion through a diagram
? For each fashion idea that a designer conceptualises, there has to be a visual representation that can communicate the design across.
? This is where Illustrations come into play for putting down the abstract creative thoughts of the mind on a permanent view source.
The importance of illustrations in fashion designing is equivalent to the importance of a blueprint of architectural design while constructing a house.
It helps in visualising ideas
? Without an illustration, it becomes difficult for a designer to explain the idea.
? It helps in previewing the creative thoughts before going into production.
? A designer can evaluate all the technicalities related to the design and can even make adjustments if any required.
It allows showcasing creativity
? Since no one can look inside a designer’s creative head, sketching is one way he/she can get noticed.
? Moreover, it helps the designers in showing the uniqueness of their designs to potential customers.
It allows the designer to work on technical aspects
? Design is not just limited to sketching the idea on the paper.
? Once the sketch is made, a designer then works on the type of cloth to be used, colour patterns, and any amendments in the design based on the client’s feedback.
It simplifies the tailor’s work
? Fashion Illustrations play the most important part of simplifying the tailor’s work.
? With the availability of a definitive sketch, a tailor can easily understand the concept behind the design.
? And, this requires the use of flats and technical drawings without the use of croquis and templates.
? Such drawings focus on complex parts of a design that require more attention from the tailor’s end.
Fashion Illustration is an intricate piece of art, it should be unique, it should look real, and majorly, it should be able to communicate the designer’s thought process. It is the core strength of skilful fashion designers and an important aspect for budding fashion designers.
Pawan & Pranav Haute Couture is one of the leading fashion labels based out of Mumbai. With a stronghold over traditional Indian bridal wear, we have been designing wedding wear for the brides all over the world. Inspired by the traditions and rich cultural history of the Indian sub-continent, our lead designers Pawan Bagga & Pranav Bagga let their creativity flow into their illustrations which are then worked upon by our highly experienced tailors to create the outfit as desired by the client.
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