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Fashion Design and Merchandising

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Collection characteristics and presentation
Course Format: Classroom
This course offers instruction in the final preparation and presentation of an individual fashion portfolio. Presentation techniques, aesthetic design, and portfolio critique and revision will be emphasized.
 

Computerized textile conception
Course Format: Classroom
This course presents advanced computer techniques used in the design and drafting of fashion apparel. Students will sketch fashion figures with an emphasis on portraying draping effects, specialty fabrics, and textures; creating patterns, flats, and specs; and developing a personal style and portfolio. Students will also create computer-generated theme boards, sketched illustrations, and specif...
 

Collection planning and production
Course Format: Classroom
This course focuses on the design, development, and management of fashion design projects. Students will work in groups to develop plans for selected fashion projects, and will design clothing and accessories, promotional tactics, and sales strategies based upon market research data and forecasted trends. Consideration will be given to budgets, timelines, specifications, quality, targeted marke...
 

Fashion trends and customer profile
Course Format: Classroom
Understanding trends, and the ability to translate the trends appropriately to the target market as applied to garments and related fashion items is a skill that is required within the fashion industry more than ever. The ability to accomplish this task will enable a business to be well prepared to compete in the market place. Whether designs are creating for the high-end client or for the mass...
 

Computerized pattern drafting
Course Format: Classroom
The goal of this course is to initiate the student in the basic techniques of computer-assisted pattern drafting, and to show the student the link between manual pattern construction and the Pad System software. By means of various procedures and practical exercises, the student will learn to modify templates using drawings or photos so as to create new models. The student will be initiated int...
 

Computerized technical files
Course Format: Classroom
This course is an introduction to computer applications used in the apparel industry and the principles and tools used to sketch the fashion figure. Topics include basic figure drawing, effective garment sketching, and an introduction to color, texture, and proportion as used in fashion design. Students will also create computer-generated sketches, fabric prints, theme boards, patterns, and spe...
 

Draping and apparel assessment
Course Format: Classroom
The professional practice of fashion design will be examined with the help of fabric draping on standard mannequins so as to reproduce garments like those produced industrially. The student will continue to develop and improve on draping techniques already learned, and will study the techniques used in industry to construct, modify, correct, and adjust patters and garments. The student will bec...
 

Prototype construction
Course Format: Classroom
In this course, students will develop a clothing line in response to current fashion design trends and market needs. Students will review the role of the designer in the apparel industry, and will research various influences and styles in the development of original clothing ideas.
 

Manual Pattern
Course Format: Classroom
The goal of this course is to introduce to the student the fundamental techniques of pattern drawing, and to make the student understand the mutual interaction of different parts in the construction of a pattern. By means of various procedures and practical exercises, the student will learn to modify basic measurements to produce new models. The student will be introduced to the techniques of d...
 

Fashion Phenomenon
Course Format: Classroom
This course introduces the student to the different periods of costume history, the factors marking the beginning of haute-couture and ready-to-wear, and the different industrial-manufacturing periods. At the end of the course, the student will be able to analyze seasonal fashion trends through various proposed methods: precise and detailed garment and accessories description; socio-economic an...
 

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