Training for teaching this program is achieved by taking the The Industrial Fashion Methods (IFM) program at Philadelphia University. Please visit LaurelHoffmann.com to learn more about her IFM program at Philadelphia University.

Please note:  At Philadelphia University Contemporary Fashion Education, Inc.'s Fashion Engineering Program is taught under the title Industrial Fashion Methods.

Fashion Affiliations

Fashion Group International (FGI)

Contact Information

Phone: 215-884-7065
Fax: 215-884-3727
Mail: Laurel Hoffmann
   Box 74, Oreland, PA 19075-2014
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This is an environmentally friendly program. Minimal equipment is required. Even electricity isn't needed, as all sewing could be done on a  treadle sewing machine.

Laurel Hoffmann's
Fashion Engineering Program

High-end industrial pattern making/sewing instructions
             for use in high school, vocational, and college programs.

This is a new, fashion engineering, classroom-tested, educational program, written by a production patternmaker/technical designer, now college professor. This classroom tested program is designed for teachers who wish to present the procedures used in top designing departments to their students. Teaching these materials will enable their students to produce beautiful, highly desirable clothing that fits. Charts are included to help with the math. Step-by-step diagrams enable the students to understand and successfully complete the assignments.

These two of the eight books in the series are finished and available for purchase:

Using this classroom-tested program, teach 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. The industrial fashion design methods, pattern making, sample making, and clothing design skills presented in this program will enable you to help your students start home-based fashion design businesses; enter the fashion industry; and learn the art of draping, drafting, fitting, and sewing more professionally.

Enable your students 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 themselves 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 can use an industrial sewing machine to demonstrate the sewing exercises to your students, all work in the program can be done on a treadle sewing machine. Students do not sew in class, instead they test their knowledge at home as they do their homework on their personal sewing machines.

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 teaching EVERYtime you buy and use one of our books with your students. As always, all work is guaranteed. If not COMPLETELY satisfied please return your book(s) within 30 days for a FULL refund, no questions asked.