It is estimated that there are around just 4,000 customers for haute couture. Prices for a single piece typically start at around €10,000 and can reach hundreds of thousands. While ready-to-wear designers will invite buyers to their shows in the hope of placing orders with luxury department stores and boutiques, couture week is attended by ultra wealthy individuals who will place orders directly with the designers for themselves. Who buys ready-to-wear?ĭesigners and the audience taking part are noticebly different at the ready-to-wear shows which take place in Paris at the end of February and September. He hopes future sessions will be open to students.Bianca Brandolini d'Adda, centre, wears a creation as part of Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2022-2023 fashion collection presented Monday, Jin Paris Lewis Joly/Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. Paper and drawing materials will be provided. It will also be a great place to meet and engage with fellow art enthusiasts in the local area.”īen is the grandson of Bishop’s Stortford rugby, football and cricket legend Tony Springham, an Indies community award winner in 2019, who died last August. If your soul yearns for it, follow it, you might be pleasantly surprised.
“I believe we all have those things in life we want to try but don't have the courage to. The class is available to all drawing abilities – even if you don't draw I would love to have you there.
I will help you through that with various tips and exercises. “The idea of drawing a human can be intimidating, but it doesn't have to be.
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By no means though is this a technical class, rather it's explorative, so please don't think you need to be a pro at this. “Fashion drawing itself is quite a niche art form so I wanted to make that accessible for people in Bishop's Stortford who may have an interest in it and want to try it. When you're drawing to a time limit, the results you get can be really interesting. It will be freeing and also challenging – but in a positive way. The first class will feature a model wearing two opposing looks – one more focused on the silhouette and the other highlighting shape and structure.īen, who previously also worked with High Street and Savile Row tailor Alexandra Wood, said: “I will demonstrate different drawing techniques in approaching these and have the model pose for drawings lasting between two and 30 minutes. He is now ready to launch his teaching programme in his home town. Instead, he rediscovered the pleasure of drawing at a more leisurely pace, attending online life drawing classes. Finally, things started to feel like they were coming together but then the pandemic happened.”ĭuring lockdown, Ben was unable to attend shows in person and sketch at speed. The street wear drawings are some of my favourites since the experience was more personal and at times more interesting than the shows themselves. "I would most enjoy drawing the people attending the shows in their finest street wear ensembles, getting to know them in the process. He said: “From 2018 to the beginning of 2020 I attended five seasons of London Fashion Week, generating tonnes of drawings from the shows, building a network of fashion creatives and getting attention from press. In 2020, an image he created with Dennis Sterne was ranked in the top 20 of a global street fashion challenge set by Vogue. The 28-year-old former Northgate primary pupil and Bishop’s Stortford High School student will share his skills at the New Apton Centre from Tuesday July 19.īen, who has a BA in illustration, developed his rapid and instinctive drawing style at London Fashion Week’s catwalk shows and has worked for British style magazines Dazed and i-D as well as Vogue USA, and carved out a career in set design for fashion campaigns and publications. Artist Ben Springham will bring his fashion flair to a new drawing class in Bishop’s Stortford.
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