Designers’ Principles

          Fashion design is considered to be one of the most creative and highly rebellious fields but it does not mean that fashion designer don’t follow any rules whatsoever. On the contrary, fashion designers understand that beauty of all masterpieces lies in a mathematically intuitive harmony of its elements which must be tediously selected and crafted in a particular way. I say mathematically intuitive, because most people perceive the splendor of landscape, portrait, or costume naturally, without first realizing the game of mathematical proportions and physics of color in that creation. Generally, to attempt to balance his or her fashion piece, a designer must understand and practice these four design principles: contrast, repetition, alignment, and space in a dress or a miniskirt.
        Contrast is an interesting concept that studies how a design can be enhanced (or diminished) by using elements of a different size, origin, or color. The goal of contrast is to differentiate the important from peripheral elements and show interest. For example, in this paper I try to differentiate the titles from paragraphs by means of bold font. By doing that, I signal the reader to pay attention to the titles before the rest of the text. I try to be close to understanding the design of layered miniskirt.
The concept of repetition is quite simple – it tells the designer to repeat the same or similar parts of the design to make a sense of unity and flow within a design. For example, I use the Times New Roman font throughout this whole paper for a reason. By repeating the same font over and over, I make it easier for myself to write the story and simpler for my reader to read it.
Alignment also creates harmony within a design by making similar pieces to align each other. Due to the principle of alignment, a reader of this text can differentiate paragraphs very easily, because they all are aligned in the same manner. The same situation is happening if a designer is making a dress or a miniskirt.
         Finally, space plays an important role in the design and it is somewhat related to the concept of contrast. Again, space like other three principles is manipulated to produce harmony within a design and it acts as a canvas. A designer must balance the sizes and colors of elements on his canvas to achieve the synchronic design. In my text the white background acts as a canvas. If I increase this page’s margins, the text on this page will look smaller than it is now, because more space was created by bigger margins. On the other hand, if I decrease margins on this page, the text will appear bigger, because the space was reduced by means of cutting margins. The artist’s goal is to find the right balance of space and elements in his creation.