Chapter 215: Not doing your job

Fashion design now covers a wide range, which is a large subject, and there are several specific subdivisions below.

For example, style design, that is, the so-called fashion designer in the public perception, whether commercial design or artistic design, can actually be classified as style design.

Lin Zhengrong is responsible for style design, but he prefers art design, just like the work launch of fashion week, which is actually a concept model, showing the fashion trend of the company's works.

The concept model marks the theme of the year's blockbuster works.

However, the specific implementation needs to be completed by other designers in the company's design department.

That is, the design of works completed by designers such as Huang Dan, director of the first design department, and Chang Tao, director of the second design department.

That's why they exist.

Whether it is Huang Dan or Chang Tao or other designers in the design department, most of them can be classified as commercial designers.

It is impossible for every designer to run to get a concept model, and a commercial company to run to get a concept model, so what is it called a commercial brand?

This is true even for underwear.

As for the art designer, Lin Zhengrong is also half, a pure art designer, a master like John Weville, everyone has gone to get haute couture.

Even in China, if you want to mix into an art designer, then the direction of development is to establish your own designer brand.

When the time comes, whether it is high-end, ordinary customization, or other creative design, there is no problem.

You can let the designer run wild in the sky, play freely, and even let your own thinking be in control, design what you want, integrate what elements you want to incorporate, and express what power you want to express what ideas.

Basically, it's up to the designer to decide.

However, if you want to mix in a commercial brand, then everything must follow the laws of business, and always keep up with the market and fashion frontier.

That is, what is popular this year, what is popular in the season, you must know, and be able to design the style according to the needs of the market.

That's why there are so many plagiarists, you copy me, I copy your works.

These are the things that the average commercial designer should do.

Therefore, if you want to become a commercial designer, you don't need such a high talent, you just need to have enough experience to accumulate enough experience to observe the styles on the market and then be able to design a second time, which is the so-called borrowing from other people's works, referred to as copying!

Therefore, commercial designers are suitable for hard-working practitioners who are generally interested in fashion design and have little artistic talent.

In other words, works like Fashion Week, which make people tremble all over their bodies, are destined to have no chance with this kind of designer.

So this kind of designer is also the most hard-working.

Basically, it is a money-making tool for brand companies, referred to as commercial cash machines.

No need to innovate, just copy the money!

Most of the students who study fashion design graduate as designers of this type.

It's just a job, it's not so lofty, and it's as hard as you want.

So this kind of designer, there is really no requirement for talent, as long as you are diligent enough.

Even passers-by, who are not from a professional background, can become a commercial designer.

Therefore, many designers of small brands start as apprentices in garment factories, graduate from junior high school and run to garment factories, and then stay in the print room, and after three or five years, they can become independent teachers.

In any case, it will be better than the garment workers in the workshop.

If you want to be a designer of this type, then you don't need to go to a third-rate art school or go to a fashion training class to learn fashion design, which is a waste of time.

The best thing to do is to go to a garment factory as an apprentice or to a brand company as a so-called designer assistant.

Start from the bottom.

And then after four years, the fashion design students who have definitely come out of third-rate art.

Of course, if after four years, if you still don't understand anything, then such a person will not have a future in anything.

There is no need for a professional background like Lin Zhengrong and strong clothing painting skills.

In fact, even if you don't know how to draw by hand or are hand-drawn like shit, you can still work as a costume designer.

As long as you know one or two design software, such as CDR and PS, you can handle most menswear designs.

Even if you really need to draw by hand, you don't need a marker, as long as you carry a 2B pencil, you can handle all the hand-drawn drafts encountered in all designs.

After all, ordinary commercial designers don't need you to have strong hand-drawing skills, as long as you can draw it and the pattern maker can understand it, then there is nothing wrong with everything.

Of course, this is only the minimum requirement for a style designer.

It is certainly no problem to mix in a small garment factory or clothing company.

But if you want to mix in a large company, then these are definitely far from enough.

It's like Allure underwear, even designers like Chen Peng, Guo Tao and Li Yanzhen have to start as designer assistants.

Of course, the students of famous schools, assistants are just the beginning, and they will definitely become the company's talent reserve in the future.

As for what Huang Dan and Chang Tao are going to do, well, after so many years of mixing and being a company director, then life is basically over, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and the front waves generally go to start their own businesses.

In addition to style design, there is also pattern making, that is, the so-called pattern maker, Wu Zheng, the person in charge of the underwear pattern room in Allure, is a senior designer in this area, that is, a senior pattern maker.

Whether it's a pattern maker for an underwear company or a pattern maker for another clothing company.

As long as Wu Zheng does it to this extent, he is already very awesome.

If you bring it to any university, you can serve as a lecturer, and it is still a scarce resource.

For Lin Zhengrong, plate-making design, on the contrary, is the most difficult, this thing is not easy to learn, not to go to the training class to learn two or three months can be quickly, there is really no way to speed up the plate-making, this is a work that accumulates over time, and it comes naturally.

So real-world experience is important.

The lecturer who teaches pattern making in school can't do anything as a senior pattern maker in a garment factory.

Even the lecturers of the pattern-making course taught by Yanfu are all from the front line, or in other words, they also work part-time in the pattern room of the garment factory.

Because this thing values the basic skills the most, just theoretical knowledge is not enough, and it is not something that can be done by reading a few more books and drawing a few pictures.

Famous designer, Alexander McQueen is the best example.

This guy, known as the godfather of British fashion, was originally a pattern maker.

When McQueen returned to London in 1991, he applied for a teaching position at St Martin's where he was responsible for teaching patternmaking, but instead of offering him the job, the head of the department who interviewed him tried to persuade him, who had not gone to university, to skip a grade and attend the school's graduate class in womenswear design.

The story that followed made Alexander McQueen known to the world for the first time as a fashion designer.

In fact, before Saint Martin went to graduate school, he was a very good pattern maker.

Otherwise, how dare you apply for the position of a pattern-making teacher?

Therefore, it is very easy for a senior pattern maker to transform into a style designer.

They may not be as creative and imaginative as art designers, but their skills are very solid.

Of course, it's not easy to get along the way in pattern making.

For Lin Zhengrong, it was very difficult.

No matter what, he can't be a great pattern maker.

The reason is simple.

He is not good at math.

It's just a math scum.

Plate making is actually the design that is most closely integrated with mathematics.

Anyone who has studied fashion design knows that paper pattern design, the dense number formula, makes people's brains hurt when they look at it.

So if you want to become a good pattern maker and then write a biography, it is best to study mathematics well.

Because the plate making is a little more popular, covering the surface of the human body, analyzing the human body through the concept of three-dimensional geometry, and using the mapping Yuan Lin to restore the plane state is the prototype master.

This is also known as a master.

Human master.

This thing is meant to be calculated by a mathematical formula.

Of course, it can also be calculated by computer software, but if you want to be a good pattern maker, you can't do everything through software.

Therefore, some bigwigs in the circle, in order to learn plate making well, were sent to study for graduate studies in the mathematics department of the university.

This kind of thing is not such an incredible thing.

Therefore, those students in the mathematics department are tired of reading, and they should go to learn clothing plate making, which is also a good choice.

After all, many senior printmakers are halfway monks.

There are even examples of engineers who studied civil engineering and ship design to become pattern makers and learned well.

Lin Zhengrong also feels that this kind of halfway monk can often go further

They will bring more impact and leadership to the entire industry.

Is it okay for a surgeon who knows a lot about the human body to become a fashion designer if he is no longer a doctor?

Of course there is no problem.

Anyone who has watched "Forensic Qin Ming" knows that Qin Ming is a uniform control and a suit control.

And I also designed my own tailoring suits.

Proper haute couture.

Whether it's a forensic doctor or a tailor, they're doing a very good job.

And it's done in one stop.

It's just that the style and cutting are all done independently.

So such a man is really handsome.

To be honest, Lin Zhengrong really doesn't know much about the version.

can only be regarded as a slight understanding, and there is definitely no problem in communicating with the printmaker.

And know how to avoid the loophole that cannot be made in the structural design of clothing.

In other words, he is not a half-baked person who only knows how to draw costume renderings.

Well, in addition to style design, plate-making design, the rest is fabric design.

Fabric design is a design direction that is closely combined with clothing technology.

Of course, the fabric is also divided into artistic design and craft design.

Not to mention the process design.

This belongs to the category of garment manufacturing textiles.

As for fabric art design, it is pattern design, embroidery printing and jacquard all belong to the category of fabric design, and they all belong to the second processing of fabrics.

Fu Hao will go home to inherit his family's fabric factory in the future, so this is basically what he will do in the future.

Anyway, if you want to become a famous designer in the eyes of the public, then you must become a style designer, and it is also an artistic style design.

Only by becoming a high-end designer, establishing your own designer brand, cooperating with entertainment stars from time to time, and then appearing in some fashion magazines or programs, and frequently increasing exposure, can you become a fashion master who holds the moon under the bright spotlight in the eyes of the world.

Well, Lin Zhengrong is now moving towards this path.

It's just that others started with a big name like John Weaver, but they started as an underwear designer.

Anyway, no matter how you look at it, it's a bit unprofessional.

As for Lin Zhengrong's idea that he ran to become an underwear designer, he is not doing his job, not alone, and most people think so.

At first, Chestnut didn't understand at all, and directly scolded him for having a brain convulsion.

I didn't believe that he liked underwear design, and always believed that he ran to Lingcheng underwear because of Qin Chengcheng.

For the sake of a woman, and a woman who has nothing to do with herself, she ran to become an underwear designer.

It's not what brain pumping is.

That's why every time the class leader mentions Qin Qingcheng, his resentment will be so deep.

Counselor Li Tao was also very devastated about Lin Zhengrong's choice.

Rejected John Weaver's request to study at St. Martin in order to become an underwear designer.

It's not what brain pumping is.

Not only them, but even Liu Zhou, the instructor of the professional class, couldn't cry or laugh when he heard Lin Zhengrong running to Allure underwear.

Even Dean Zhang Yaojie advised him to consider carefully.

But the result of his careful consideration is still to choose to enter Allure underwear.

And as it turned out, his choice was not a brain pump.

At least the previous personal underwear show was successfully held in Fashion Week, which shocked many teachers and students of the Fashion Institute.

It is estimated that they never thought that an underwear show could play so many tricks.

It's not a show that can be simply described with beauty.

At least, after the success of the lingerie show that day.

All the classmates and teachers around him who knew him looked at him with emotion.

So no matter which company you choose to develop in, no matter who you follow, whether it's underwear or fashion.

If you want to be recognized by others, you must have works to speak.

This is true both externally and internally.

Externally, the teachers and students of Yanfu were full of amazement at his works, and internally, the designers of the underwear design department of Allure were also shocked after watching the work show.

It is estimated that they don't want to believe that this is a work show that students who have just joined their company and have not yet graduated can complete independently.

Because Lin Zhengrong's works completely subvert their previous inherent cognition.

I feel that I have been an underwear designer for so many years before, and I have learned so many underwear design dogs.

This is also the reason why Wu Zheng looked for him as soon as he returned to the company.

Powerful young people are welcome to everyone.

Especially Lin Zhengrong, a style designer who will not steal his job.

Master Wu was even more welcome.