LCFS’ students visited Duc Giang Garment Company

On the 22th of May, students from the London College for Fashion Studies Hanoi visited the production lines of Duc Giang Garment Company. This trip was very helpful to LCFS’ students, who had the chance to see the operating systems of the company. 

During this trip, students visited all the different sections such as design, cloth laying, cutting, sewing chain, embroidery section and finishing. Most of the students were positively surprised by the company and very interested in this visit. They had the opportunity to learn more about the fashion market in Vietnam as well as know and understand the requirements of the garment enterprise.

LCFS’ students and lecturers in Duc Giang Garment Company

The students also did not forget to bring their cameras to take a lot of pictures of the work in the company. Students also took note of important information during the trip, so they could apply them directly at the college.

This is one of the real-life examples that London College for Fashion Studies Hanoi organizes. And this trip was part of the curriculum which allows students to better understand the fashion industry in Vietnam. Therefore, they can orient their works appropriately when they graduate from college.

Below are some pictures of the trip to Duc Giang Garment Company:

LCFS’ students were very interested in the design section

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A Silky Trip

Hi guys! So another term has already begun in LCFS Hanoi! And before we are getting super busy once again with our final project, Ms. May Cortazzi has organized a trip for us to relax and prepare to fight! As well as to increase our knowledge on one of the finest kind of fabric – silk. And our destination was no other than the oldest silk village in the east side of Hanoi – Van Phuc, Ha Dong village. 

The first place we visited was a traditional household called Trieu Van Mao where we learnt all about the long process of making silk. The cycle begins in summer and takes a whole year to complete. It all starts when a special type of butterfly lays eggs. Each butterfly can lay up to 400 eggs which take about 10 day to hatch. The villager raise the worm with Dau leaves for 4 to 6 weeks till they start to release silk thread, wrapping around themselves to create cocoons in approximately 4 days. Naturally, it takes around 10 days for the butterflies will break their cocoons, but nowadays, to speed up the process, villagers boil the cocoons and collect the silk threads right after the worms stop releasing threads. The boiled worms will be sold in the market as a Vietnamese traditional food (they are actually quite tasty and nutritious.) Villagers then untwine cocoons using a homemade wooden machine. The silk threads now are ready to dye and wrap into rolls, preparing for the next step.   

Silky cocoons

Wooden machine to separate silk threads

Silk thread then get twined into rolls

Weaving machine

Pattern cards

Beautiful silks are on the way!

The next stage of the process begins in autumn when villagers start weaving fabric. They use a weaving machine with pattern cards to weave their silk. The pattern cards help creating patterns on the fabric.

After the lesson, we got to do some shopping! The 3 most popular silk fabrics are 100% silk, silk with visco blend and silk with hemp blend. The silks products are great. Villagers use their fabrics to produce clothes and house decorations which not only look beautiful but also have superb quality.

And the gorgeous final products!

An absolutely amazing trip that we couldn’t have asked for more! It was knowledgeable as well as enjoyable. We totally had a blast! So if you are looking for some beautiful silk for your project, you know where to get them! Lastly, stay in tuned to see our final projects, some of them will be made with the silk we got!

Direction to Van Phuc Village

Have a great one! With love, Nicky Vu. 

Spotted...

So we, at LCFS, we breath fashion, we talk fashion, we eat fashion, we act fashion, and of course we dress fashion!
We want to make this new post a regular one! It's all about styling.

It's easy, while at the college, if and when we spot a student or a teacher or any other fashion creature, wearing anything that is fabulous, inspiring, unique, i.e. attention seeking,  WE IMMORTALIZE THE MOMENT!!!

This week, we spotted the wonderful Miss Thao wearing a colorful tie-dye Lolo inspired scarf,  electric silver heels, and fun patterned crochet black tights

 Until we spot the next one... Enjoy!

Talk to you soon,
Joelle

An introduction to Fabric Design

Form – Shape, Colour and Fabric are all important factors, once combined with each other, they create Fashion products. So guess which factor in the fashion product you notice first?

Of course it’s the Form – Shape and Colour which your eyes will notice first. BUT here is the trick, it’s all about the fabric. Fabric isn’t only about the touch, and the look, there is more to it. You need to feel and listen to your emotions when you touch fashion products, you can feel comfortable, happy, free or sad, hurt, even mad, that is so incredible and put Fabric on the top of the pyramid as the best important factor in the Fashion industry.

Nowadays, in the Fashion industry worlwide, brands and designers always research to create unique textiles for their products, to create the difference between other brands and designers.

Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto are Japanese designers who all well-known for creating unique textile by combining traditional and modern technologies.

The Belgian fashion designer. Martin Margiela uses technics constiting of reconstruction and deconstruction by using recycle textile.

Or even the unique and famous Sonia Rykiel, whose well-known for creating guinea-cotton weave, stockinet, elastic shrink.

Using and playing with Fabric helps you to create a unique and recognisable identity and LCFS - London Centre of Fashion Study will help you become this unique textile designer with the exclusive course: Fabric design.

Fabric design is very interesting. You do not have to think a lot about how you would make something, if it is good or bad, do not worry, because you just need to feel comfortable doing it. And even sometimes, you think that  what you’ve created is or looks so ridiculous BUT maybe, it will be your main textile inspiration for your collection.

There are many ways to make your textile as well as there are many inspirations around you.

You know about embroidery – traditional hand-made.

Printing – Modern technology

Fabric Drawing

Recycle textile - necessary for protecting environment, even you do not have much money to buy new clothing – so great.

So now that you know a bit more! Aren’t you curious?

 Why don’t you try to make something new with your clothes, refresh your closet, and add a special touch to your clothes to make you look unique. And if you really love it, you will find what you’ve made very interesting.  

Last but nor least if you do not know how and where to start, you can visit our College at 48 To Ngoc Van – Tay Ho - Hanoi, Jason Steel – our fabric design teacher will help you and you will be loving the project like us.

Here is a little taste of what you can do :)