Link to course listings and on-line registration - currently being redone. Design Room Techniques and Fitting Home Sewing Patterns start Saturday, April 10.

Design Room Techniques, 8 classes, 9:30 to 12:30am , April 10, 17, 21, May 1, 8, 15, 22, June 5.
Fitting Home Sewing Patterns,
12 classes, 1:30 to 4:30pm, April 10, 17, 21, May 1, 8, 15, 22, June 5, 12, 19, 26. June 26 also has a class in the am from 9:30 to 12:30.

Winter/Spring/Fall 2010 Schedule: Drafting & Fitting Pants and Skirts: winter 2010; Design Room Techniques, Fitting Home Sewing Patterns: Spring 2010; Grading & Sewing a Blouse and Jacket, Marketing to the Fashion Industry: Fall 2010; (Copying a Man's Shirt: winter 2011).

Learn about entrepreneurs who are taking, or have taken the program.

Information about buying the student textbooks, miscellaneous information about the courses.

Read the review, (1.19mb) Learning to Design Garments That Really Fit Real People. published in the current issue of Fashion Technology Magazine.

Visit the publisher's website.

Scroll to the bottom of this page for the cover, section head, and Chinese version. Also read about fashion engineering student Poonam Signhal's international clothing line's success.

Picture and comments about Laurel teaching Making Effective Use of Home Sewing Patterns at the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals, Inc's Educational Conference in Illinois in October, 08.

Vogue magazine... Learning from the Best

Fashion Affiliations

Association of Sewing and Design Professionals (ASDP)

All affiliations

Contact Information

Phone: 215 884 7065
Fax: 215 884 3727
E-mail

Mail: Contemporary Fashion Education, Inc., Laurel Hoffmann, Box 74, Oreland, PA 19075-2014

       
This is a green, environmentally friendly fashion education program. Minimal equipment is required, all drafting can be done with a few basic drafting tools and pencils. All sewing could be done on a treadle sewing machine. Except for pressing, even electricity isn't needed.

Using this classroom-tested program, learn the professional fashion design pattern design and clothing design procedures used in the world's top design rooms to produce beautifully custom fitted, highly desirable garments like those sold in high-end boutiques in Paris and New York City.  Industrial fashion design methods, pattern making and clothing design skills will enable you to start a home-based fashion design business, learn to sew more professionally, and learn the art of draping, drafting and fitting.

Learn how to start a clothing line and/or how to start a clothing business, learn to draft professional patterns from measurements, learn how to adapt grade rules, and how to grade home sewing patterns to custom fit. Learn to sew and manufacture high-end, luxurious clothing for yourself and others. Learn how to cut exotic textile designs to match.

This program is about high-end professional sewing techniques, as done in both custom haute couture and high-end industrial designing departments. Minimal equipment is needed, as the more expensive the garment, the less equipment needed to make it. Although you will learn about industrial sewing machines, all work in the program can be done on a treadle sewing machine in the home.

The pant books are available in hard copy for purchase now. Six additional books are in progress. As the additional books become ready, we will post them on the website. Currently they are being tested in the classes and are sold ONLY to students in the program. That is because our insistence on high quality, easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions that REALLY work, is in place. This policy ensures that you, our customer, will be highly satisfied with the improvement in your sewing EVERY time you buy and use one of our books. As always, all work is guaranteed. If not COMPLETELY satisfied please return your book within 30 days for a FULL refund, no questions asked.

Fashion Engineering Student’s Successful Show at Jacob Javits Center, NYC
Click here to read all about it.