After years of men’s tailoring school programs being shut down for lack of interest, it’s nice to see not only renewed interest, but also to know that there still are training programs around. Located in Dublin, Ireland, the National Tailoring Academy runs an accredited post-graduate course in Bespoke Fashion Tailoring. An email from one of the instructors advises us that “It’s designed for students with fashion qualifications or industry professionals who want to go furtherRead More
Month: March 2015
At the suggestion of a friend (or rather, his daughter) I just finished reading Mary Blume’s The Master of us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, his World. I can’t say for sure whether it was the quality of the writing, the subject matter itself, or merely nostalgia for a time when I had it in my head that I would some day move to Paris to work in one of the great couture houses, such asRead More
A post for industry nerds. I’m beta testing Accumark V10 which will be released to the public soon. We have been using V8 and a lot of the major interface changes were made in V9 so there are a lot of big changes for me. But I just came across the most exciting new feature. In the past, in order to share files between systems like Lectra and Gerber one had to convert files toRead More