This online course is #1 of 6 Required Core courses in our Diploma program.
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In this fashion history course, students will discover the key moments in fashion history and theory over 200 years from the French Revolution through to the 1990s.

The course includes:

• The 19th-century corseted hourglass figure to the birth of haute couture
• The modernist look of the flapper to 1930s Hollywood-inspired bias-cut glamour
• Austere 1940s fashion history and the post-war romance of Dior’s New Look
• The explosion of youth culture and the legacy of street style
• Exploration of the cyclical nature of styles in culture and fashion history
• Extravagant 18th-century court fashions and the politics of clothing during the Revolution

This online course is #2 of 6 Required Core courses in our Diploma program.
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The properties of colors and how they behave within color systems will be explored in both theory and assessments and exercise practices.
Color systems from real life, fine arts, and design sources will be researched, analyzed and used for course assessments.

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Emphasis of course activity will be to enable the student to use the design process and language to reference the principles and elements of design in developing and analyzing samples of two-dimensional compositions.
A series of exercises and a project with two-dimensional elements will be completed by students.

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Our Drawing Fundamentals for fashion design course is an introduction to structure, form, and tone using the human figure. This drawing course explores both traditional and alternative media, drawing styles, techniques, and materials. A series of exercises help you learn classical drawing principles and basic structure and anatomy. Build on that knowledge by learning perspective drawing, shading techniques, and contour drawing as well as the techniques used in line art, fashion scathing and drawing, fashion painting techniques.

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Course Outline: Introduction to model drawing with wet media such as inks, watercolor, and others. Course topics provide the platform for line, value and preliminary color studies using wet media: contour types, gesture, controlled, expressive, texture generations, etc.

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Students are given the opportunity to:
• use transparent watercolor media to achieve a variety of effects in the model drawing.
• use color mixing to achieve local color.
• work with the varied fashion design and costume design subject matter.
• utilize Elements of Design (line, shape, space, texture, volume, color) and Principles
of Design (balance, emphasis, proportion, rhythm, unity, variety) in compositions.
• view and discuss traditional and contemporary works of famous fashion designers.
• demonstrate good studio working habits.
• present their completed fashion and costume design project in a professional manner.

Objectives Outcome:
Ability to recognize and apply a variety of art techniques.
Ability to utilize hue, value, and intensity of color.
Ability to plan a composition.
Ability to express a personal direction in different art techniques.
Ability to be professional in the presentation of fashion design projects.
Ability to meet set deadlines.

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Students learn how to create their own designs from conception to construction. After an introduction to Fashion Design and Illustration, students create Mood Boards ( The Purpose of Mood Boards. A mood board is a way to collect different creative information in order to prepare for a new project. It is a segue between initial thoughts or meeting and the first draft of your project) and will learn how to sketch their own fashion garments. Then students will learn how to cut & construct their designs with guidance on basic sewing and fabric & trim selection.

Also in this Course:

• Draping for Fashion Design;
• Elements of Design in Fashion;
• Evolution of Fashion;
• Fashion Form and Image

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What is an Accessory design?

Accessory Design

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Intermediate Fashion Design & Special Techniques

Also in this Course:

• Pattern Drafting 1
• Pattern Drafting 2
• Pattern Drafting for Menswear

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What is Pattern Making?

Pattern making is essential in learning in Fashion Design and how garments are created and put together.  A  fashion designer or fashion design instructor must learn pattern making in order to really understand the construction of fashion designs.

In this course students will learn:

• Basic Principles of pattern-making such as Dart Manipulation and Added Fullness and Contour.
• Students will learn techniques such as Pivoting and Slash-and-Spread.
• New terminology such as Slopers and Blocks and Darts, Pleats, Tucks, Yokes, Princess Seams, Shirring, Apex, Notches.
• Where pattern comes from draping muslin bodice on a dress form.
• Drafting Princess Seams.
• Drafting an A-Line skirt.
• Drafting Skirt Yokes and adding fullness to skirt.
• Grainlines and Pattern Labeling.

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Cutting for Sewing Techniques

Module 1. Aim of this module:
To make students understand different cutting techniques according to different materials which will be beneficial for home-based and industry. Introduction to cutting tools home-based and industrial for woven, knitwear and leather.
– Importance of grain line while cutting woven, knitwear and leather. Proper pressing techniques before cutting.

Aim of this module:
– Introduction to the sewing machine, home-based and industrial. Threading of lock stitch, Flatlock, and overlock machine.
– To make students understand different sewing methods while working with different machines/equipment (which can be home-based or industrial) and fabrics that require special handling and care.