DESCRIPTION& OBJECTIVES

This is a course designed to familiarize students with the fashion world and to provide them with a general knowledge of the fashion industry and fundamental techniques of fashion design. This course will be structured in lectures and practical demonstration in order to give the student the best approach to fashion design. The student will work on personal projects with constant individual help to fully understand illustration techniques. Group critiques and class discussion will enrich student knowledge of the subject by comparing projects and opinions. At the end of this course students will be able to express own personal style trough fashion illustration. They will learn how to sketch a fashion figure in different poses and how to personalize it according to their own style. Drawing of clothes on figure will be understood. Coloring using different media and rendering fabrics will be developed. They will execute some personal fashion ideas.

READINGS

1. Fashion illustration. Inspiration and Technique by Anna Kiper
2. Figure Drawing for Fashion Design by ElisabettaDrudi and TisianaPaci
3. Drawing Fashion, Bill Thames, Glencoe.
4. Costume Book-Visual Enciclopedia
5. Costume and Fashion- A Concise History-Laver

CONTENTS

• Explore color, texture and shapes by conduction research
• Design Development and Technical drawing
• Explore relationship between Art & Fashion
• Study of individualistic artistic ideologies and blend elements of

Commercialism with it

• Technical Drawing Development
• Paint Application
• Personalized Design Project
• Mood Board Development (Research, material compilation, exploring links between words and images, analyzing apparel design and investigate its source of inspiration).
• Figure Drawing (Human proportions, study of movement & posture.
• Fabric / Material Rendering and Development of Fashion Figures (replicate textile surfaces, relationship between garment and silhouette).
• Fabric / Material Rendering and Development of Fashion Figures.
• Silhouette Derivation
• Design Development through manipulation of classic silhouette.
• Theme Based Design Project .

RESEARCH PROJECT

Theme based final project.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Sessional: 20

Mid term:  30

Final exam: 50

RULES AND REGULATIONS

• Arrival in class after 20 minutes will be considered absent.
• Plagiarism will be strictly dealt as per policy.
• In time submission of assignments is required.