How Are Jeans Made?
Stephanie Steele
Thursday, 1 April 2021
Now that you have mastered what denim fabric is, you might be starting to design your silhouette. But what makes a staple pair of jeans that your customer will want to use everyday? In this lesson we look at the basic construction of a five-pocket jean and some links to external lessons from Transformers Education where you can learn more about research, understanding your customer, creating tech packs and what quality design actually is.
Thumbnail image: Blackhorse Lane Ateliers
In this lesson you will learn:
- What a basic jean construction is (the five pocket jean)
- Tips on researching your design
- How to understand your customer and audience
- Creating good tech packs for your factory
- What quality design of jeans looks like
- Thoughts on sustainable choices
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Sustainable Denim Trends
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Sylvia Rancani is the founder of The Denim Window™, a 360˚ showroom based in Amsterdam, that will help you experience what it takes to produce sustainable denim garments. In this bitesize 12-minute lesson, learn from Sylvia's insight on how trends play a role in both understanding your customer and understanding industry innovations, in order to produce garments that will sell.
The Denim Window™ selects premium denim companies each with a unique category, to showcase all of the steps involved in producing a denim garment: from fibre producers and fabric mills, chemical suppliers for your laundry and finishing, to garment makers and trims suppliers. The intention is to give visibility to producers, and engrain transparency in what is a complex sector of the textiles and fashion industries.
So what knowledge can you glean from Sylvia on the current denim industry, and where you as a sustainable fashion designer fit within it?