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Who is the next ThunderLily designer?
What happens next?
Stay tuned to this page to find out. We will be posting the timeline, announcing the winner and chatting with you about your great designs on this page.
** The winner will be announced on Friday May 25th.
We are also thrilled to announce that we will be opening a designer showcase. The showcase will feature the top selection from the competition and in the future we will be accepting submissions from designers who would like to have their work shown.
The showcase will be open for comments, discussion and customers can favorite the designs. Designs will be chosen each month to be produced and sold on the website in conjunction with the designers.
We are very excited to have the opportunity to work with such talented and creative designers!
Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ThunderLily for the latest info
Silk floats. As you walk it follows you, like a devoted compliment. In silk you can do no wrong. As it moves around the body it caresses, flatters and smooths. The soft, luxury of silk makes you feel elegant beyond comparison and graceful beyond imagination.
As you walk down the street in silk, heads turn, eyes watch. Silk is the ultimate luxury fabric. It elevates any garment of clothing to a new status. In the delightful film Don Juan DeMarco, he describes silk, “…how it barely touches her skin, how it rides on a cushion of air as she moves, how the silk floats above her body”.
Types of Silk
Silk Charmeuse is a luxurious fabric, variable in weight, with a sheen on one side. Often used in wedding dresses, bridesmaid dresses and luxury wear.
Silk Chiffon is a lightweight sheer fabric that is woven from S and Z twist yarns, which give it flexibility. Very floaty and ideal for lightweight dresses or blouses.
Silk Devoré is a burnout technique that uses a gel to dissolve the cellulose fibers, leaving the silk, so the effect is semi-transparent.
Silk Velvet Devoré leaves the velvet pile in beautiful patterns
Silk Chiffon Devoré leaves an effect that appears like silk charmeuse blended with silk chiffon.
Silk Dupioni
A more structured fabric, that bears a random knobbly effect. It is made from two different threads (the name stems from the Italian for “double”) It has tiny imperfections in the thickness of the thread which provides the texture and uniqueness of any piece of fabric. Dupioni is ideal for either home décor or suits (it is used widely in the east to make suits).
Where Does Silk Come From?
Silk most often comes from the cocoons of the larvae of the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori, (reared in captivity) and it is the triangular prism-like structure of the fiber which causes the lustrous, shimmering effect, which allows silk cloth to refract light at different angles, to produce the effect of different colors.
 Silk Charmeuse  Silk Chiffon  Silk Velvet Devore  Silk Chiffon Devore  Silk Dupioni
With just over two weeks to go to the Fashion Design Competition deadline, the excitement is building.
The designs are rolling in and we just love all of them, choosing a winner will be very difficult.
Click here for the Rules and Guidelines for the Fashion Design Competition or to ENTER THE COMPETITION
What are we looking for?
There is no exact formula for choosing the winner, but the designs must be wearable and appealing. We are equally enthralled by the elaborate designs as we are by the simple designs. We are considering not only what is current, but what is timeless.
Sometimes it is the silhouette of a dress, or the interesting cut of a pant pocket that catches our eye. And we believe that our customers will feel the same way.
So, when you are designing, you should think not so much about what we like, but what your customer will like, what defines you as a designer and what fashions would you most like to see on the street.
What you should have prepared so far
With just two and a half weeks to go you should be timing your designs. You should have your inspiration and your color story worked out. You should have made early sketches or scribbles of your designs and you should be prepared to start on the final drawings.
What if I Can’t Draw?
This is not a drawing competition, but an ideas competition. We do need you to illustrate the seams, entry points, notions to show the construction of a garment. Are there buttons? Elastic? A zipper? How are the do the darts placed? But if you can show these elements, you do not need to be able to be an excellent sketcher, rather a knowledgeable designer.
If you do want to place your sketches on a model then there are online resources that can help you, you can find sketching techniques at http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/3718/fashion-sketching-for-untrained-artists or get free downloadable croquis at: http://www.designersnexus.com/design/free-fashion-croquis-templates/
I have Questions
Great, we love questions. You can comment on this blog post and we will answer, that way your question can help other people. Or, you can contact us directly via the Contact Us page and we will get back to you personally.
An important part of finding a designer is communication, so please do write to us!
Click here for the Rules and Guidelines for the Fashion Design Competition or to ENTER THE COMPETITION
Why be an early entrant for the Fashion Design Competition?
The winner of the competition will be collaborating with us, albeit remotely, as we create the patterns for their designs before we have them produced. This means that we will be building a relationship with our first designer, finding out how they work, design and think creatively. Undoubtedly during this creative process there will be tweaks, changes and revisions made on a collaborative basis.
The designer will be our first designer to “open shop” at ThunderLily and again we will be coordinating and working closely to ensure a smooth transition.
In short, this will be the first designer with whom we build a relationship, and it will be a prototype for the relationship with future designers, so…this is a very important relationship for us and a lot is held in the balance.
As an early entrant to the competition we have the opportunity to:
Get to know you and your work.
We have more time to see your designs to become acquainted with, discuss and think about your aesthetic.
We can ask you questions about your designs and maybe make recommendations for some changes.
You have time to rethink your sketches and make your own updates at any point, rather than uploading at the last minute and being unable to make changes.
At any time we also encourage you to ask us questions and communicate with us. This is a marriage of communication and creativity.
READ MORE ABOUT THE COMPETITION…or ENTER THE COMPETITION
Thank you for entering the Fashion Design Competition!
Aside from cultural and personal interpretations of color, there are physiological associations, which often stem from nature.
For example, blue skies represent clarity and calm, red is the color of fire and blood and therefore associated with anger or danger, yellow is the sun and sand and represents happiness, brightness, but also calm.
Similarly the choice of color in fashion makes a statement. For obvious reasons grays represent stones, brown the earth and green, the color of grass and leaves and has been chosen to represent nature and “green choices. These “earth” tones are often used by designers to send a message not just about how they feel, but social and ethical choices they want to make.
On a more personal level a woman choosing between a navy blue dress and a scarlet one is making a strong statement about how she feels and how she wants to be seen.
Preference for color fluctuates with the economy and social forces push color forward to either represent the current mood or to urge change. Balancing color is an important job for a designer and understanding color and the color wheel is necessary to making considered color choices.
Color Types
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colors
Take a look at the first row of wheels in Color Types.
The three primary colors are red, yellow and blue.
The secondary colors are a combination of two primary colors and therefore fall between any two of the primaries, resulting in green orange and violet.
Tertiary colors are a combination of one primary color and one secondary color, there are six of these colors.
Analogous colors are those colors placed next to each other on the wheel.
Complementary colors are those that are exactly opposite on the wheel for example red and green. Combining complementary colors makes a very strong statement and opinion is clearly delineated about whether you like complementary colors placed together, or you feel they are too strong together.
Neutral colors are black, white and gray, but in fashion beige or off-white is considered a neutral too.
Monochromatic Colors
Monochromatic colors are shades, tints and tones of one color. The large color wheel shows the pure hue of any color and the shade and tint of it.
The different shades and tints are known as values of a color and are created by adding more white or black to the color.
Tint: The addition of white creates a tint, which is a lighters value of a color.
Shade: The addition of black creates a darker value of a color and is known as a shade.
Tone: A new tone is created by adding both black and white at the same time, for example red + white + black = dusky rose (tone).
Color stories
Color as we know is both social and personal, so the selection of a color story is literally a ’story’ about the designers thoughts and feelings represented in color alone. A color story is created from any object that is forming the base of the inspiration for the collection. A color story is pure color, shades and tints that are selected to make a statement and capture the imagination.
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