時裝設計入門：創造你自己的時裝系列！

Introduction to Fashion Design

Students learn fundamental fashion industry concepts &  techniques as they learn the basic skills to develop their own fashion collection. Learners will be taught the basics of designing a clothing collection, from inspiration, to mood boards to creating a final collection. *Class style is conversational, collaborative and presentation based.*

Required for physical rendering of collection:
Fine Tip Black Drawing Pens for outlining 
Pencils
Color Pencils or Markers (including flesh tones)
Printer/paper- To Print out class materials & croquis

Required If doing a physical mood board:
Scissors
Glue Stick
Current Fashion + Lifestyle Magazines (min 3)
Posterboard or Heavy Card Stock (8X10 or 11x17 recommended sizes)

* if student wishes to do mood board and collection 100% digital, then physical art supplies are not required*

Optional Digital art programs:
Photoshop, sketchbook, procreate, Canva


Week 1:

* Introductions
* Discussion: Finding Inspiration
* Discussion: Creating Mood Board Instruction
* Q&A

Homework: 1. Read Course Outline & All Handouts including "Mood Board Guidance".  2. Review all sample mood boards in course materials. 3. Complete Mood Board and prepare to present to the class. (3 minute minimum presentation)

Week 2:

* Mood Board Presentations (3-5 minutes)
* How to use mood board as inspiration to create a clothing collection
* Q&A- preparing to design your collections

Homework: 1. Review all sample collections in course materials, think about how each mood board is represented in the final collection 2. Read Fashion Mini Collection Guidance Handout 3. Design your own collection using sample croquis from course materials. Make sure that your collection is fully rendered using markers and or color pencils. Outlined for clarity.

Week 3: 

* Final Presentations of Clothing Collections
* Wrap Up
* Q&A