Innovative Fashion Design with Pattern Cutting Online Short Course

Details

Topics covered

• You will learn how to work instinctively and think creatively in a dynamic fashion school environment.
• You will engage with research through 3D experimentation and drawing.
• A CSM pattern cutting tutor and a sewing technician will assist you in realising your design ideas.
• The course will culminate with the creation of your final piece.
• You will also have a research book documenting all your design development.

Pre Course creative research work

Before the course starts, you are asked to read attentively the brief and start personal research all the different artists and their work in the 4 categories below to increase your knowledge and prepare some creative mood boards that you will present to the course team at the beginning of the 1st day in class.

Once you have researched all of them, you will need to select one of the groups to work in and prepare 6-8 initial mood board pages in PowerPoint or keynote that explains with imagery and keywords, quotes, reflective text why you like the collected images and how it relates to your identity.

You are also asked to prepare and present 5-6 hand sketches, fashion designs or collages as responses to the mood boards you have shown.

For the first day of course, please be ready to show Tutor your previous Fashion Design work in a low resolution pdf (under 10 MB) in a digital portfolio with a CV if you have one.

On the first day of teaching, you will be invited to present yourself to the class, which is an integral part of Central Saint Martin’s ethos.

Materials

Online Short Course Materials

To take part in the Online sessions you will need:

• An up-to-date web browser (we recommend Firefox or Chrome)
• Microphone and headphones (a headset with a microphone function is recommended)
• Webcam
• Strong Internet connection via WiFi or ethernet; 2G, 3G or 4G will not be sufficient

Material required for the duration of the course

Toile making

• Watercolors, paints, markersetc
• Felt tip pens
• Scissors
• Glue stick
• coloured pencils eraser
• Scissor for paper
• Paper glue (e.g. Pritt stick)
• laptop if possible
• memory stick
• Camera
• repositionable tape
• Blu tack
• sketchbook
• paper A4 and A3
• drawing kit glue, tape etc...

Toile making

• calico for fabric manipulation and drape (pleas buy enough as you will need to produce a full toile at the end)
• second-hand garment to re/deconstruct
• sewing materials thread, yarn, scissors
• pattern cutting paper
• sewing tools
• sewing machine for sewing your toile
• iron to iron fabric and calico for the toile
• Scissor for fabric
• Needles, pins
• Thread and Embroidery yarn in the colour you need

Digital resources

ESSENTIAL

• Laptop/desktop with keynote (MAC) or powerpoint (MAC/PC) for digital sketch book
• Camera (phone or digital)
• Scanner (flat bed or on a phone)
• printer that can print out your work in progress

OPTIONAL

• photoshop and illustrator for digital artwork
• digital drawing tablet

For organising your research, you can either work in a traditional sketchbook (A4 or A43 portrait) or ring bind folder of your choice

• A4 ring bind folder (neutral colour to suit your style)
• 100 A4 punch hole pockets https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiger-transparent-punched-pockets-sleeves/dp/B007L8SFN8/ref=sr_1_12?dchild=1&keywords=a4+punch+hole+pockets+tiger+100&qid=1586118434&s=officeproduct&sr=1-12
• A3 ring bind folder landscape (neutral colour to suit your style)
• 50 A4 punch hole pockets https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiger-landscape-plastic-pockets-sleeves/dp/B005Q9X0DY/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=tiger+a3+landscape&qid=1586118011&sr=8-6

Other useful resources to have ready

• previous best work/project/research or design work that you want to develop further
• personal and interesting visual research
• research garments with interesting details
• interesting fabrics and materials that inspire you and you want to use for your project
• fabric length to produce swatches

Recommended reading/magazines to follow as a starting point.

Please complete your research reference as you go along.

• ID
• RE-EDITION
• REPLICA
• SELF SERVICE
• PURPLE
• THE GENTLEWOMAN
• BUFFALO
• 09Bz
• 032c
• 1 GRANARY
• NATAAL
• VESTOJ
• VITUOGENIX

https://www.stackmagazines.com/fashion-style/the-10-best-independent-fashion-magazines-in-the-world-right-now/