Disciplines

Introduction to Fashion Design Process:
Learn to carry out visual research and develop design sketchbooks, develop your drawing skills to produce final illustrations, and fabricate fashion design boards for presentation of your ideas, both manually and using industry-standard software.

Pattern Drafting:
Receive an introduction to pattern drafting and toile manufacture. As the year progresses, you will build upon these skills, creating patterns to implement your own design vision, and proceed to toile manufacture to finished garment manufacture.

Contextual and Cultural Studies:
Explore clothing and fashion design throughout the ages, and learn about contemporary influcences in fashion.

Trend Forecasting:
Carry out trend analysis, shop reports and customer profiling; providing a context for your fashion design projects.

Idea Generation:
Practice concept development skills, developing inspired, original ideas for fashion design, and practise communicating your ideas to colleagues.

Fashion Industry Communication Skills:
Learn the technical skills and knowledge involved in producing flat drawings (manually and using industry-standard software), industry specification sheets, and costing sheets, lay plans and range plans.

Requirements

Academic Transcripts
Letters of recommendation
Letters of statement
Portfolio
CV
English language proficiency

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