FASHION DESIGNER AND PATTERN MAKER 
FIRST YEAR :

The acquisition of all the basic principles in the artistic, technical and technological fields.

Artistic culture : Art and costume history

• Aesthetics awareness
• Documentary research at the Marseilles Fashion museum reference library
• Artists, designers,top designers
• Grasping the most important contemporary fashion creative movements
• Commentated screenings by professionals

Dress designing : the fashion figure

• Trend studies, sources , influences
• Illustration techniques, fashion illustrators
• The relevance of sketches, documentary study, nude drawing, stylisation
• Techniques and colours
• Flat  sketching and technical drawing
• Textile technology, armour study, ennoblements
• Introductory course in computer graphics

PATTERN MAKING : From flat patterns to volume : skirts, blouses, dresses
Body shape study – its measurements

• Shapes
• The importance of fit and balance and methods of achieving it
• Flat pattern cutting
• Flat paper make-up of a garment in one size
• Making-up of cloth prototypes
• Model fitting- Making-up of a 3 dimensional cloth model on dummy