BSC RUNWAY Fashion Show 2008

The Fashion Textile Technology Programs Fashion Show Production class headed by Erin Habes successfully completed their RUNWAY Fashion Show at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery last Friday 4/11/08 as part of the Friday night at the Knox Gusto Program. Here is an article by Phyllis Camesano titled, Fashion Week Comes to Buffalo,” that was published just before the show.

 Kudos to Erin Habes owner of Sweet and Dirty fashion Boutique in Buffalo, NY [and her class] for leading and amazing production that consisted of fashions from local boutiques and selected senior collections from David Brinson’s Apparel Design Senior Project class. Congratulations are also in order to The apparel design seniors in David’s class that exhibited their collections.

 There are several videos posted on CW23 but there are no direct video links for me to include here. You would have to visit the CW23 video page and select the following videos from the list:

• Lydia: Buff State Fashion Show Red Carpet [before the show]
• Lydia: Buff State Fashion Show [the show]
• Buff State Fashion Preview [ reviewing the collections]
• CW23 Fashion Show [construction madness]

 

 

• The images above are from a review of the show Posted by Catherine Berlin under Buffalo Spree titled: No Boarding Pass Needed
• HERE IS A LINK to the RUNWAY Fashion Show Photos from the Buffalo.com/spotted web pages.
• And finally here is a link to the gallery images from the Buffalo State Web site: BUFFALO STATE FASHION SHOW PHOTO GALLERY

OptiTex #6: What Else and Why?

There are several more videos I will share with you in this final post of this OptiTex Outside of the Box Technology Series.

The integrated collaboration and development goals of the OptiTex product have resulted in a unique multidimensional  product development tool for the Fashion industry that is leading many to ask is it real or is it virtual?

 The OptiTex cloth rendering and animation engines are exceptional. I will share two more videos [posted below] to demonstrate that in this final post of the series.

 In a past post I mentioned that companies and/or brand could use the OptiTex multidimensional application to develop their own set of sizing standards either by inputting body scans of the fit models or using a plug-in for standardized industry dress forms.

 

Companies and/or Brands can also globally centralize the fabric/material testing and  input the individual cloth properties such as bend, stretch, shear, damping, shrinkage, weight, thickness for the OptiTex fashion product developers.

3D Chalk/Vector Tool

Another upcoming development in a future version will be the OptiTex 3D Chalk Tool [see video above]. It is another example of expanding communication options by working simultaneously in a multidimensional 2D>3D environment. It enables the user to sketch notes anywhere on the 3D image. More important to me then the 3D Chalk tool is the vector Pen Tool. This handy little Pen Tool enables the user to position the 3D image in any rotational view so that a technical vector flat sketch can easily and quickly be drawn over the 3D fashion product. This is an exceptional technical spec tool. The user can very quickly develop front, back and side technical specs from the 3D rotational views. This feature will be available in Version 11.

Why?

This brings us to the end of the most recent OptiTex series. You may be wondering why I have focused so much on the OptiTex product?  Quite honestly I an a fashion/textile technology addict for the past 21 years. I started out transferring all my traditional, aesthetic and technical skills over to 2D technology in 1987 and have been retooling ever since. I love all aspects of Fashion Technology and the OptiTex product is the first product I have come across over the years that truly integrates all the separate aspects (on an equally high quality level) of fashion technology ( first 2D and more recently 3D) that I have been working on for the last 21 years like garment pattern development, marker making, technical specs, texture mapping, print,  weave and knit surface CAD design, [and more recently] 3D fashion product development, simulation and animation.

Yes, there are many other excellent high quality widly used industry flat pattern development and marker making applications like Gerber, Lectra, Assyst, PAD and 3D applications like Maya and 3D Studio MAX.  Quite honestly some of the most widely known fashion applications in the industry have only recently realized the critical necessity of integrating 3D technology into existing 2D applications and the highly significant impact the resulting quick response, cost effectiveness, global fitting standardization, pre-marketing and marketing uses this multidimensional application will provide for the fashion industry. In house development on some integrated 2D/3D integrated systems has been uneven. Not all companies embrace external partnerships and collaborations like OptiTex has with established leaders in industry.

I can tell you from many years of first hand experience in fashion education with struggling to integrate different technology applications that there is nothing like a turn-key integrated equally high quality multi-application system for all aspects of fashion product development. It is an exceptional educational tool for visually teaching students how their 2D flat-pattern designs will look on a 3D form.

I wanted to share the results of my years of hands on experience and research with you. If I run across another similar high quality integrated system I will share the results of my new research with you…