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Designing a Pattern: Handmade and Hand Grade!

By David Himel on September 20, 2012

Many times a month I am emailed or requested to create a specific design or modify a jacket to make some special edition for a customer. As much as I would like to be able to do this I find myself explaining the impossibility of it and the complexity of the process of developing a [...]

Posted in Design, Materials, prototype designs | Tagged design, Gerber, Grading, Optitex, pattern making | 2 Comments

New Designs: Prototyping

By David Himel on April 11, 2011

I have been sweating away over here in the creative tank so to speak working on 6 new jacket designs. Many of my jackets are my own interpretations of original work, or simply inspired by the techniques of original work. On occasion there are original jackets that are so amazing and so perfect that I [...]

Posted in prototype designs | Tagged avro, design, Horsehide, kensington, pattern making, prototype | 8 Comments