Fashion Design

Start date: October 2010 | Duration: 3 years | Language: local
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Fashion designers create styles, aesthetic concepts suitable for the human body, and combine technique and creativity to design clothing and accessory collections.

They must be familiar with technologies and the use of new materials and be able to develop clothing designs to cater for market demand.

In the contemporary fashion system professionals are expected to show a strong multidisciplinarity, i.e. a complete preparation able to make them versatile and face successfully all the requests coming from the sector. Today a fashion designer must develop all typical features of a designer: his/her skills must extend progressively, like the knowledge of the industrial production and of the technological progress made in research for new textile solutions, textile-design, the dynamism of the trends moving within the economy of a specific market, the development of new computer techniques and of the communication processes linked to the “fashion” phenomenon, being always willing to receive a continuous updating and a constant growth of his/her competencies. The completeness of such a professional figure represents a great value added – as well as an objective: creativity and talent development must be the fi rst step of a specialized formative route aimed at increasing precise design skills and technical know-how as well as transmitting methodological criteria able to translate ideas and creativity into concrete, communicable and high quality products.

1
  • Colour

    Key issues in colour use. Analysis of colour management tools as an aid to design. Colour systems, the physics of colour, complementary colours, perception and cultural uses of colour.

  • Computer 1

    Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Flash Training for the most popular software used for retouching, image management, drawing andmoving images. A preparatory course in IT will be available.

  • Contemporary fashion

    Analysis of contemporary fashion design: the most infl uential designers of recent years, styles, emerging personalities, fashion weeks, fashion culture on-line, fashion magazines.

  • Culture and techniques of costume

    The present lab is articulated in different steps of analysis of menswear and womenswear codes in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries: materials,processes, colours, functionalities and meanings.The objective of this lab is to understand the historical perspective through the interpretation of pattern-making and tailoring techniques.

  • Design project 1

    First design project of a clothing collection: the objective is to learn to manage the creative stream from the observation of reality to theidentifi cation of a methodology up to the realization and communication of a product.

  • Fashion drawing

    Study of the human form and its graphical depiction, stylized and formal figures. Illustrative techniques and rendering. Elements of technical drawing for clothing.

  • Fashion pattern making and tailoring techniques 1

    Transformation and recomposition The course is based on the TR Technique (Transformation and Recomposition) and aimsto develop a sense of balance for fashion model design and for stylized shapes. Basic sartorial techniques will be learned throughlaboratory work.

  • Materials technology 1

    The course investigates the main types of fibres, analysing strengths, dyes, processing techniques and suitable uses. Study of the evolution ofmaterials used in fashion.

  • Modern and contemporary art

    Historical and critical analysis of the main movements in modern and contemporary art in relation to the evolution of society and culture. Historical and critical analysis of the main movements in modern and contemporary art in relation to the evolution of society and culture.

  • Textile drawing

    Drawing for textile prints using digital techniques: study of types of prints, formal composition,colours and printing techniques.

2
  • Design project 2/3

    Menswear and womenswear collection Design project and realization of two collections, menswear and womeswear, in which different materials and colours must be experimented to build shapes, volumes and lines following contemporary trends and market requests.

  • Fashion pattern making 2

    Structured laboratory work for the further study of techniques to create traditional fashion models for menswear, womenswear and children.

  • Fashion semiotics

    The study of symbols as essential elements in communication, including the output of the fashion designer.In particular, fashion can be viewed as a narrative determined by a specifi c symbolic code, setting it apart from other types of  communication.

  • Fashion system

    The fashion product: from the pipeline concept to the specifi c features of textile districts, study of the production and distribution logics, analysis of the main phenomena in the contemporary fashionindustry.

  • Fashion trends project

    Study of the “trend” concept: the objective is to identify and analyse some contemporary trends and to express them through scenarios, images and signs of reference.

  • History of fashion

    Evolution of fashion in historical and cultural terms, with particular emphasis on researching styles of the 1900s. The course includes an opportunity to carry out in-depth research into a single particularly significant innovation occurring in the history of fashion.

  • Labs

    Underwear, knitwear e children Laboratorial and experimental study in order to understand-through the analysis of the main codes and the most original and representative brands- the essence of these three sectors and to translate everything into a personal project.

  • Personal design

    A lab dedicated to the personalization and the synthesis of the fashion drawing, focusing on the expression of creativity, the potentials of sign and colour as well as the experimentation of manual skills and different representation techniques.

  • Tailoring techniques 2

    Laboratory work to extend knowledge of the principal tailoring techniques for menswear, womenswear and children.

  • Visual culture

    The present course means to develop students’ visual sensitivity through the study of the image according to different perspectives and the use of different methodologies, from the graphic approach up to the composition of a functional portfolio in search for a stylistic identity.

3
  • Cinema, fashion and music criticism

    Study of the different languages in cinema, fashion and music through the analysis of the main genres within a historical, social and cultural perspective.

  • Fashion pattern making 3

    Structured laboratory work for the further study of techniques to create traditional fashion models.

  • Portfolio

    The formation and production of a portfolio which includes in a critical way the best results achieved during the year: a sort of “diary” showingprogresses and developments of technical skills as well as a refi nement in creativity.

  • Tailoring techniques 3

    Laboratory work to extend knowledge of the principal tailoring techniques.

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