Central Saint Martins

Draping Womenswear Design

This course allows to develop draping techniques, which are essential to a career in Fashion design.
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Length 1 to 3 months
Effort 3 hours per week
Price £ 465
Subject Design
Level Any
Languages English
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Draping is an intuitive, playful and enjoyable way for anyone to create fashion ideas and garments. By working with fabric and pins on a dummy you can experiment and visualise your ideas quickly, and find inspiration without having to spend time making finished pieces. This online course will teach you to drape skilfully, and you will get a deep understanding of how various fabrics can be manipulated by twisting, folding, gathering and layering to produce the most amazing results.


In this course you will learn different aspects of draping:

  • Creative draping and 3D experimentation to explore your creativity and develop your design sense
  • Marking your draped design in order to create patterns
  • Fashion design development and creating a fashion collection based on your draped work

During the course your tutor will introduce you to a number of draping techniques. Those techniques will form the basis of your invaluable design tools whether you aim to design clothes for yourself or high-end fashion collections.

What you'll learn

By the end of the course you will be able to create your own research before you start to drape and sketch. You will learn how to work in a sketchbook as well as work with fabric on a dummy to build up your ideas for shape and detail. You will also learn how to create designs you can add to your portfolio whether you want to apply for a fashion design course or a job in the industry.

Course syllabus

Topics

  • How to research
  • Which and how much fabric to use
  • Draping creatively
  • Draping a skirt
  • Draping a top
  • Draping with bias detail
  • Draping and design

Meet the instructors

Jeanette Osterried
Jeanette studied Fashion Design Womenswear at Central Saint Martins and the Royal Academy of Antwerp. Since then she has run her own womenswear and knitwear business and worked alongside designers like Ann Sofie Back, Sharon Wauchob (Paris) and Peter Jensen (London). For the past ten years Jeanette has been an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, BA Fashion Design womenswear, as well as knitwear department. She is a long standing tutor on the CSM short course program and has also taught fashion design at numerous other colleges.