Design Challenges - Sophie Hallette
Today, Raffles Singapore is honored to have Mr. Vishal ADVANI, Managing Director of N J Bhagwan & Co Pte Ltd, on campus to launch the Sophie Hallette Design Challenge in Asia.He showed us a lot of sophomore Sophie Hallette lace samples. Gorgeous intricate pattern. Still the preferred fabric for many fashion houses.
Lace is a very common fabric; the production process is slightly complicated. Mainly used for clothing decoration. It has a complex hollow pattern, woven slowly with yarn. The earliest lace appeared, not for apparel, but for the honor of church altar. Because of the arts and crafts in the monastery began further development.
After the late fifteenth century, lace appeared. Only started as a fabric-making clothes spread in the folk. After that. This exquisite craft spread to the people. In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, Italy produced a large quantity of lace for decorating clothing. But at the time was still a luxuriant luxury for some of the privileged classes such as clergy, princes, and nobility, and became the primary origin after importing France Influenced by the trendy Rococo style of meticulous design, both the technical and stylistic categories have entered their heyday. Beginning in the 16th century, it spread widely in Western Europe and gradually spread all over the world. The most of lace is made of silk or nylon. Now, most are machine-building. There are more complicated patterns added by hand. Or more complicated sequins or beads. Lace's production process is very complicated; it is a certain pattern with silk or yarn wound around a small shuttle above the knitting. Lace at the beginning of the production of some of the working hours, some uncomplicated patterns so that a skilled woman to make it also takes at least a month or more to complete. But each of these handmade lace is unique. Advanced handmade lace, is the first need to dye the yarn, in the weaving pattern.
Sophie Hallette
Sophie Hallette gorgeous lace Lace (Lace) is an ancient and beautiful clothing, but also often in a beautiful gesture appeared in a variety of Haute Couture. Founded in 1887, the Sophie Hallette brand has been passed on to the third generation as a family business, and its superb craftsmanship is standard across the industry. Over the past 100 years, Sophie Hallette has countless titles including Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Chloe, Versace, Valentino, Erdem, Elie Saab. Sophie Hallette, adding a lot of modern design to new lace, such as beads and sequins. There are many new and original designs. Most of the previous lace is a gorgeous design, such as the most common elements of flowers. Now use a lot of decorations, more changeable style, geometry; the use of impressive sequins, spell like a puzzle out of the image. To add a sense of three-dimensional cloth. I think that many of the materials in the design are varied and can be added to new things. Break the tradition to break a line and try to create new raw materials yourself. This design from the original materials all belongs to their origin cannot be copied. Now I have to start thinking about the connection between the jewelry and the lace, and how to make the lace in the jewelry. This will be my biggest challenge in the second half of the year