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Advice and Guidance on Choosing a Career in Fashion Design
How To Do Fashion Design Research
Sketching for Fashion Design ~ Beginner Course for Designers
Fashion Design - Create Your Own Fashion Ideas
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About Design, Fashion Design
Get a head start in your fashion career. The perfect short course for students at all levels. This free, short, online course will give you guidance to start your career in fashion design. The essential tool for anyone starting out or planning a career in fashion design. You are considering entering into the field of fashion. We focus primarily on fashion design but the course will help anyone who wants a better understanding of the fashion industry and tools to help prepare themselves. You'll get to create your own career planner to guide you in the early steps in your career. You will create an action plan that will lead help lead you to a fulfilling and successful career. Your course helps you to avoid making costly mistakes in your education and fashion career. We'll teach you how to check what your most suited to in your fashion career.
How To Do Fashion Design Research
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This course will help anyone that uses research as part of their creative fashion design process. Carrying out effective research is an essential skill for any designer and this course will help you to master this skill. Make sure your fashion design work is constantly topped up with innovative ideas and inspired work because you have learnt the essential skills for fashion design research. This course will help: Fashion students at all levelsPeople going through the application process for a university or college course in fashion design or a fashion related coursePeople applying for a job in the field of fashion where an understanding of research in the design process is required.Mature students, those on a GAP year and people in a job who want to refresh their design research skills. After completing the course: By successfully completing this course and applying what you have learnt you will have a confident, well organised, efficient and disciplined approach to your fashion design research. Duration - the course will take about 1.5 hours to complete. Structure - you'll be guided by a tutor who has both fashion design and teaching experience and is a gifted designer in her own right, able to pass on her experience to you. Materials - you will receive complimentary key learning point sheets, a research planner template, sheet as well as personal goal plans and action planner for use during and after you have completed the course. Tutor Support - your tutor is on hand to call upon for any support you need and to help you to make the most of the course and the time and money you have invested. Student Discussions - the course includes an opportunity to join in with other students and discussions relating to the creation of your fashion portfolio. Life Time Access - you have lifetime access to the course so there's no need to feel that you have to complete it within a few days. Start and finish when it suits you knowing that if for any reasons you can't complete it in one go you can always finish it later.
Sketching for Fashion Design ~ Beginner Course for Designers
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This Fashion Sketching Course (7-videos-modules) is for beginners: young and old, with an interest and passion for designing fashion. In this Course you will learn how the body moves, body movement, and balancing the body using the Plumb Line. You will learn the industry standard "9-Heads Croquis". We start with a simple exercise using a pencil and learn how to achieve different "shading" effects depending on how you are holding the pencil. Using the pencil correctly is the foundation of good sketching, whether it's fashion design or not. You will also look at inspiration as a way to influence sketching: fashion inspiration, using a "fashion diary/journal" - creating a "pool" from which to draw ideas from will definitely affect your ability to draw new fashion designs. You will learn garment closure: difference between womenswear and menswear button closure.In this Course students will learn:How to draw a "9-Head Croquis"How to use a Croquis as a template to start sketching fashion ideas.Body movement and creating an "S-shaped" silhouette.Balancing the body and use of the Plumb Line.Pencil techniques to create "shirring/gathers", and shading, and coloring.Creating a "fashion diary-journal" to use as source of inspiration to influence ideas for designing.Differentiate garment closure between men's wear and women's wearCreate your own style.And some inspiring words of wisdom...Sketching ideas swirling in your imagination onto paper is the first step in developing a fashion portfolio and a fashion collection/line. Being able to share ideas that can eventually be translated into an actual garment is so important.You will learn that the body moves in a certain way and stays balanced at all times. That's when learning how to use the Plumb Line correctly will enable you to create your sketches so they look professional and exciting. Learning how the torso and the hips work together in-sync with each other will enable you to sketch dramatic and impressive figures and illustrations.As a fashion designer the pencil will become your best friend: learning techniques on how to hold the pencil and apply pressure unto paper in order to achieve different "thickness", applying different weight of the pencil unto paper.Whether you are a beginner designer or a professional, sketching plays an important role when delegation responsibilities to your assistant or team. They have to understand what you are trying to achieve in your design and sketching it correctly is necessary.Your seamstress and/or pattern-maker have to be able to look at your sketches and understand what you're communicating. The sketch will eventually become the garment thus needs to be accurate and clear. You will learn how the industry uses a Template known as the Croquis as a way to sketch ideas. A Croquis is "taller/longer" than the normal body thus elongating the body/figure and appearing taller than the average human body.You will learn how to create a "fashion journal" which will help you develop your own unique style as a fashion designer. Knowing what you like (and don't like) empowers your designing abilities and will support you in developing your unique "voice".Developing your own unique fashion design style is very important: what makes you different than the next designer. Establishing your own style is key in creating a successful brand. Fashion brands come and go therefore you must build a strong foundation with a strong particular and different style that you can call your own. Practicing your fashion sketching consistently will enable you to achieve that goal.Learning how to sketch fashion designs, and the practice of it, will give you confidence and certainty; it will boost your morale, and the ability to communicate your ideas. Having the power to tell your story through your ability to sketch, will solidify your brand identity.Sketching enables you and empowers you to express on paper your ideas and possibilities that come across your imagination.Enjoy the course!
Fashion Design - Create Your Own Fashion Ideas
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This is a art class for beginners to learn how to create fashion design illustrations using computer software and also templates. We will cover some offline sketching and also how to put your illustrations to a practical use. Anyone will benefit from the course whether you are a beginner and do not know how to draw or if you are a talented artist who would like to learn how to get your designs on the computer without spending alot on expensive software applications. A downloadable fashion sketch illustration workbook is included in this course.
Pattern Maker For Fashion Design - Pattern Cutting
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This course is about the transmission of a unique method to reach even more knowledge, capable of transforming a great idea into a perfectly created piece of clothing. Then, the use of this pattern-making technique is to create patterns that will then be used to cut the fabric and ultimately be sewn into garments, which are clearly demonstrated. Course Characteristics:- Fast Learning, No Losing Time.- Everything Included, From Vocab To Tools To Knowledge.- Made By An Expert With Over 30 Years of Experience.- Affordable Cost, To Get You Faster Into Fashion Design.So, anyone interested in learning fashion design can easily learn the basics of fashion design. The new terminology is clearly explained and applied to the topic As a fashion designer pattern making is essential in learning how garments are created and put together. A good fashion artist or designer must learn pattern making in order to really understand the construction of a body.This as you know, is a beginner course, but starting easily is always a good choice. And for those who hate starting easy, this guide is not very long in time, so that everything is compact, ready to get you into place. All you need to do is having some tools which are listed inside the course and remember some words, that's it!All the tools that are necessary for drafting patterns. Basic principles of pattern-making:- Manipulation and Added Fullness and Contour.- The importance of grainlines, notches, and pattern labeling.- How to create your skirt blocks, necessary for developing new ideas and models.- How to make a simple skirt and from there draft different models.- The terminology such as Darts, Pleats, Yokes, Apex, Notches...- How to move darts to change the design or to add volume.Labeling a pattern correctly can mean the difference between a beautiful design versus a disaster! Thus learning how to label a pattern correctly is very important - the industry demands perfection when it comes to being accurate and precise. The use of proper grainlines can be the difference between cutting the garment correctly or cutting it the wrong way and thus having to cut it all over again.Getting to know, and be familiar with, all the necessary tools used in the industry makes the difference between a professional and a novice when going for a job interview. When working with a designer you must know, and be familiar with, the proper terminology, techniques, principles, of pattern drafting so that communication is clear and understood in order to execute a garment accurately. Deciding on which technique to apply to a design, not only expedites the process but the right choice produces optimum results.Learning how to use an existing pattern, maybe something that you bought at your local fabric store, and, by applying the principles and techniques learned in this course, you can transform the original design into a new idea, which will give you confidence and experience. Thus, pattern making is essential in learning about the construction of a garment. And learning pattern making and garment construction can help you in the design process. Knowing pattern-making will help you in knowing what is possible and what is not when it comes to designing a garment.In addition, knowing pattern making is valuable not only in the design room but also in production. If something goes wrong in the factory and the reason is due to a pattern mistake, you must know what to do and how to fix the pattern and/or remedy the situation.A pattern maker is a very important asset in a company and is treated with all respect and rewarded accordingly. There is a need for great pattern makers in the industry and this course will give you a good idea if this is a good career for you. If you are a person who likes accuracy, precision, and details, this career can generate a very stable financial income.Which is the key skill in garment making. At the end of the course, you will be ready to move forward in your pattern-cutting journey. If you want to enhance your career in one of the most competitive careers on the planet, then this is the course for you.I'm a creative pattern cutter with over thirty years of experience. After graduating from the Istituto Secoli in Milan [Since 1934 Istituto Secoli has been setting the benchmark in Italian excellence in teaching fashion], I made a ton of experience in various companies in Italy. In 1995 I opened my own company with my brand, where I took care of every step from the design to the creation of the garment up to the shipment of all orders.So, with twenty years within and after the previous, I have acquired all the experience necessary to pass my knowledge to others and give useful advice about fashion. In 2015, I moved to London where I work as a freelance pattern maker for several companies, including Couture and Leather Clothing (tailored).
