Fashion Sketches are one way that top designers get their ideas about future products out to the public and the buyers at retail stores. Technically when dealing with sketches the actual product is still in the concept stage.
This won’t stop the fashion news people from jumping all over the sketches. Any little advantage they can get on their competition is all the excuse they need to leak information. It doesn’t matter that what appears on paper might never make it out on the runways, opinions will be formed, accusations will fly, and trends will be abruptly started or stopped in their tracks.
Fashion trends can be built on the slightest remark or even an agreeing nod. Fashion design sketches are highly converted and protected like they are state secrets. Of course it is not at all unheard of for the head of fashion houses to let fashion illustrations; sketches out of the bag by accident.
Runway fashion is really just designer fashion sketches come to life. It is when all of the hard work of the designer, seamstress, models, and marketing people all come together. The fashion industry is a industry…never forget that. Everyone in the industry is in the business of marketing products.
Certain fashion sketches by themselves are considered works of art. There are vintage fashion sketches and French fashion sketches that have been made into books. These books are studied in the fashion houses and at fashion schools. There is always something that can be learned from people who have come before you.
There are designer fashion sketches that are copied by the “knock off” artists that will appear in your Sunday advertisements part of the newspaper. I’m not sure if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery in this case. I am pretty sure that the heads of the fashion industry do not like this practice.
The people that work in fashion designs sketches for the clothing elite. They really have no interest in creating famous fashion sketches for the huddled masses. After all the majority of people can’t afford to buy the clothes that are being marketed this way.
A group of famous model sketches can be viewed as a prelude to a fashion show. It will be composed and orchestrated like a great musical piece. Pictures will be put in order and changed around until the notes all fit together perfectly.
Fashion sketches are a business until themselves. If you have an artistic talent it is a field you can pursue. If you have good fashion sense then fashion sketches can be your entry into the world of high fashion.