At Vancouver Sewing Classes (VSC), we help plan, design and charter our clients’ career paths to ensure and guarantee their success in the fashion industry. We mentor, advise and guide them in how to set-up their own business; we teach our clients how to design their own logos, tags, labels and packaging for their business and branding; we teach our clients how to do photoshop and graphic design artwork for their garments; we teach and train our clients how to design, draft pattern blocks and use blocks/ slopers to create any garment of their choice; we train our clients how to sew professionally from scratch to complete a full garment in each sewing lesson; we teach our clients how to drape couture design on red carpet events; we teach our clients how to grade pattern in different sizes and stitch them together into a garment; we teach our clients how to prepare tech packs and send them overseas to South East Asia to have their sample made and mass produced; we teach our clients how to mediate, liaise, communicate and negotiate pricing with garment factories; we teach and guide our clients how to create a marketing plan to sell and distribute their products; we teach our clients how to do their fittings and communicate with the garment manufacturers overseas; we teach our clients how to copy ready-made garments from big brand-name labels from scratch with or without a block pattern; we teach our clients how to create a size chart; we teach our clients how to interpret the tech pack to create a pattern then cut and sew it into a garment from scratch: we teach our clients how to do their own market research and find the right niche for their fashion business.

– Chris Falcon is a Canadian designer and fashion educator with over 35 years of experience in the garment design and manufacturing business.