FASHION DESIGNER AND PATTERN MAKER Second YEAR :

Mastering of techniques, learning how to watch

Fashion trend study

Artistic Culture : Art and costume history

 

• Art and design
• Industrial aesthetics
• 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: Dress designing, creation / textile design – hand-drawn and computer-assisted 

• The Fashion figure
• Subject studies : identifying the shopping goal
• Looking for raw material, ranges of colours
• Defining a collection, setting up a collection
• Ready-to-wear collection portfolio, knitwear
• Studying manufacturers’ brands -streetwear, sportwear…
• Trend Analysis, sources, defining guiding lines
• Illustration techniques, studying fashion illustrators
• The relevance of sketches, documentary study, nude drawing, stylisation
• Colour study : influences, impact.
• Creating patterns and developing ranges of colours.
• Flat  sketching and technical drawing.
• Textile technology, armour study, ennoblements.

Pattern Making :From flat pattern to volume-dresses, trousers, jackets

• Converting paper patterns into muslin , development of patterns, measurement charts, CAD, basic of garment making
• Fabric measurement
• Garment assembly processes of prototypes,
• Drawings and technical files.
• Assembling and assessing prototypes
• Fitting and alterations
• 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 dimentional cloth model on dummy.

 Marketing : 

• Customer profiles
• Distribution
• Brand surveys
• Product image
• Packaging, merchandising
• Trade fairs

Computer graphics : The technical file

• Lay-out
• Collection outlines
• Graphics, logos, labels
• Textile printing and colourization

Introduction to professional life 

Setting up of projects with partners in the fashion field within the context of the ‘Company- School’.