Please find below a multitude of links to amazing documentaries, tutorials and Fashion resources

Design Process and Sketching

Walter Van Beirendonck - Walter@Work - 4 minutes

Fashion Sketching Tutorial - Yelen Aye - 20 minutes

Fashion Designers

Aitor Throup, London Collections S/S13 - Crane.TV - 2 minutes 30 seconds

Cathy Horyn Interviews Alber Elbaz - New York Times - 12 minutes 30 seconds

Aminaka Wilmont - Crane.TV - 3 minutes

Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 - Victoria and Albert Museum - 6 minutes

Comme des Garçons, WHITE DRAMA - Premices Films - 18 minutes

Diving for McQueen: A Conversation with Sarah Burton and Cathy Horyn - NOWNESS

McQueen and I - Channel 4 - 71 minutes

Gareth Pugh, Studio Visit (April 2012) - Crane.TV - 3 minutes

The Secret World of Haute Couture - BBC4 Documentary - 60 minutes 
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

Stella McCartney interview by Suzy Menkes, March 2009 - 11 minutes

Suzy Menkes, In Fashion - SHOWstudio - 16 minutes

Tom Ford OWN Visionaries - 41 minutes

Walter Van Beirendonck, short filmportrait - 17 minutes

Ralph Rucci - Dream to Seam - modaCYCLE Documentary - 58 minutes

Yohji Yamamoto: The Poet of Black - Victoria and Albert Museum - 18 minutes

Sewing and Apparel Construction

Basic tutorial on Juki Industrial Sewing Machine - Pandemic Apparel - 4 minutes

Fashion Materials and Textile Development

Yohji Yamamoto: Yuzen - Victoria and Albert Museum - 8 minutes

Yohji Yamamoto: Shibori - Victoria and Albert Museum - 6 minutes

Yohji Yamamoto: Screenprinting - Victoria and Albert Museum - 3 minutes

Yohji Yamamoto: Embroidery - Victoria and Albert Museum - 3 minutes 

Contextual Studies

Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900 - Victoria and Albert Museum - 7 minutes

David Lachapelle - Crane.TV - 2 minutes 30 seconds

Ethical Fashion Africa - Crane.TV - 6 minutes

Postmodernism at the V&A - Victoria and Albert Museum - 12 minutes

Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture - TEDx talk - 16 minutes

Rachel Botsman: The Case for Collaborative Consumption - TED talk - 17 minutes

Underwear: From Corsets to Bullet-Bras and Back - Victoria and Albert Museum - 7 minutes

Britain Creates 2012: Fashion + Art Collusion - Victoria and Albert Museum - 11 minutes

Portfolio and Career Preparation

Presenting your work:

Photoshoot for DIY-ers - Zach Andrews - 3 minutes 14 seconds

Online Portfolios: 

Behance - Online Creative Portfolios

StylePortfolios.com - Design Portfolios for the Fashion Industry

Fashionple.com - Portfolios for Fashion, Fashion Photography and related fields

Coroflot - Online Creative Portfolios and Job Board

Fashion Internships and Recruiters:

Freefashioninternships.com - Internship listings (USA)

Intern Sushi - Internship listings (USA)

Denza International - London-based Fashion recruitment

Henry Fox Recruitment - London-based Fashion recruitment

Smith&Pye - London-based Fashion consultancy

Solomon Page - NYC-based multi-industry recruitment 

Coroflot - Online Creative Portfolios and Job Board






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