Read the review, (1.19mb) Learning to Design Garments That Really Fit Real People. published in the current issue of Fashion Technology Magazine.

Visit the publisher's website.

Scroll to the bottom of this page for the cover, section head, and Chinese version. Also read about fashion engineering student Poonam Signhal's international clothing line's success.

Link to the complete course listing.
Registration for the courses is now online. Registration is currently closed. When registration opens for fall courses, the link will be posted here.

Fall/Winter/SpringSchedule for 2009-2010: Design Room Techniques and Drafting & Fitting Pants and Skirts: fall 2009; Pillow Making - late fall, 2009. Fitting Home Sewing Patterns, Marketing to the Fashion Industry: Winter 2010. Grading & Sewing a Blouse and Jacket, Copying a Man's Shirt: Spring 2010.

Information about student textbooks, miscellaneous information about the courses..

The Course Sequence

Learn more about Laurel Hoffmann's company at Contemporary Fashion Education, Inc's website.

Picture and comments about Laurel teaching Making Effective Use of Home Sewing Patterns at the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals, Inc's Educational Conference in Illinois in October, 08.

Faculty Show 2006

Fashion Affiliations

Fashion Group International (FGI)

Association of Sewing and Design Professionals (ASDP)

All affiliations

Contact Information

Phone: 215 884 7065
Fax: 215 884 3727
E-mail
Mail: Laurel Hoffmann, Box 74, Oreland, PA 19075-2014

       
This is a green, environmentally friendly fashion education program. Minimal equipment is required, all drafting can be done with a few basic drafting tools and pencils. All sewing could be done on a treadle sewing machine. Except for pressing, even electricity isn't needed.

Using this classroom-tested program, learn the professional fashion design pattern design and clothing design procedures used in the world's top design rooms to produce beautifully custom fitted, highly desirable garments like those sold in high-end boutiques in Paris and New York City.  Industrial fashion design methods, pattern making and clothing design skills will enable you to start a home-based fashion design business, learn to sew more professionally, and learn the art of draping, drafting and fitting.

Learn how to start a clothing line and/or how to start a clothing business, learn to draft professional patterns from measurements, learn how to adapt grade rules, and how to grade home sewing patterns to custom fit. Learn to sew and manufacture high-end, luxurious clothing for yourself and others. Learn how to cut exotic textile designs to match.

This program is about high-end professional sewing techniques, as done in both custom haute couture and high-end industrial designing departments. Minimal equipment is needed, as the more expensive the garment, the less equipment needed to make it. Although you will learn about industrial sewing machines, all work in the program can be done on a treadle sewing machine in the home.

The pant books are available in hard copy for purchase now. Six additional books are in progress. As the additional books become ready, we will post them on the website. Currently they are being tested in the classes and are sold ONLY to students in the program. That is because our insistence on high quality, easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions that REALLY work, is in place. This policy ensures that you, our customer, will be highly satisfied with the improvement in your sewing EVERY time you buy and use one of our books. As always, all work is guaranteed. If not COMPLETELY satisfied please return your book within 30 days for a FULL refund, no questions asked.

Fashion Engineering Student’s Successful Show at Jacob Javits Center, NYC
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