After
the 81st Academy Awards, CADTERNS
– a
(very) small electronic cottage industry in White Rock, BC
feels a proud connection. As we see each year, nominated
actresses are “costumed” in exclusive Oscar-evening gowns
provided by celebrated designers.
A
notable “Fashion Statement” that repeated a couple of times
on the red carpet and pointed out by commentators was the
“fish-tail” silhouette. It could have been taken from the
“Previous Oscars” showing of Marilyn Munroe’s 1957
award-winning “The Prince and the Show Girl”.
The very same style
designed by Grosenick and illustrated by Jannette Maedel
appears on the new, sophisticated virtual model SuzyQ at
www.cadterns.com. The gown illustration hangs
proudly on the wall of one of the CADTERNS
home offices.
Grosenick spent early design years working in
the wonderful, mad world of live theatre in Calgary, Alberta
as a wardrobe mistress and costume designer. She always
made a special event of these red-carpet runway galas with
sketch book in hand; ready to record inspirations.
“This year it felt like I was actually there”
says Grosenick excitedly, watching SuzyQ’s gown reappear
time and time again, always with a new little twist. “I
don’t costume or sew any more but I do teach others how to
make their own personal patterns… like this one.”
And,
in the true spirit of being there, she adds, “I’d like to
thank:
-
Paul Lowe who designed and
programmed CADTERNS
personal patternmaking software, the
fitted personal slopers (patternmaking templates), the
logo and the Website, without any of which there would
be no CADTERNS
;
-
Janice Lowe, the
recordkeeping director who has spent years tolerating
the hours and hours Paul has spent on CADTERNS
when he
is so accomplished and, as a recently honoured Fellow of
his Engineering peers, capable of so much grander
accomplishments;
-
Marilyn Legard, a director
available at the most awkward times and places, ready to
take on a wide variety of multi-miscellaneous tasks that
have ranged from sales to proof-reading publications, to
displays for various “show-and-tell” events both here
and away;
-
Jannette Maedel who pulled
together many projects in a single charcoal sketch
giving us a new, sophisticated grown up and beautiful
SuzyQ in her “Oscar Gown”;
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All of our loyal customers,
who use their personal slopers to design, cut and sew
their own personal creations. Educational,
Entrepreneurial and Recreational Fashion Designers,
you’ve shown us possibilities beyond our expectations.;
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And last, but not least,
thank you to Steve Samson, the accomplished Vancouver
tailor who is willing to test his innovative win-win-win
strategies to take CADTERNS
Menswear to new heights by
teaching his craft to a new breed of home-based digital
tailors;
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Of course, I would not
leave out my wonderful, beautiful children, Bill and
Kammi who are themselves, through Baracuda Productions
and “Covet” keeping the family legacy alive and growing.
WOW!”
(For
the record, CADTERNS
operates as an “electronic cottage industry” as predicted by
futurist author Alvin Toffler in his 1980 publication Third
Wave ISBN 0-553-14431-6, page 10.) `
For
more information about CADTERNS
or
the CSOL
(Cyber
School of On-line Learning)
be sure to visit
www.cadterns.com or contact
.
