Innovative Fashion Design With Pattern Cutting Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This course invites beginner and intermediate fashion students to delve into the innovative process of 3D garment design through hands-on experimentation. You will learn how avant-garde designs emerge by working directly on a dress stand, discovering creative shapes and silhouettes through draping and manipulation. You will create a contemporary and relevant body of research that reflects your personal expression, inspired by artist ideas, and craftsmanship methodologies.
Throughout the course, you will explore innovative design pathways through abstract research, drawing inspiration from diverse sources like historical clothing references, architecture, and imagery gathered from exploring London. Your research will fuel the development of experimental 3D textile manipulation, creative toile sampling, and garment identity creation.
By collecting images, found objects, second-hand textiles, and personal photographs, you will produce an exciting collection of 2D/3D collages. These visual explorations will inform your creative design process as you annotate research, collage, and experiment with silhouettes by draping directly on a mannequin, focusing on proportion, volume, and scale.
You will also learn to document every stage of your creative journey, developing both physical and digital portfolios that communicate your creative and technical growth. The course culminates in a resolved toile outcome, combining technical pattern cutting with experimental garment design, transforming abstract research into a tangible garment that fully reflects your ideas and inspirations.
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for anyone, aged 18 and older, interested in their fashion design skills, including students thinking of applying to further studies at foundation or degree level. Beginners are welcome, as are those looking to expand existing knowledge.
Key information
Topics covered
- Learn how to work instinctively and think creatively in a dynamic fashion school environment
- 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
- Culminate the course with the creation of your final piece
- Have a research book documenting all your design development
Learning outcomes
- Conduct research using diverse sources such as historical clothing, architecture, and taken photos, and translate this research into unique garment identities that reflect personal expression
- Produce a resolved toile outcome in calico by applying 3D experimentation techniques, including draping directly on a dress stand to explore shape, proportion, and volume, resulting in a fully realized garment that embodies their research and concepts
- Create an innovative and avant-garde design line up of 6 looks
- Document their creative process comprehensively, both physically and digitally, developing portfolios that effectively showcase their design journey and technical progress
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- Pattern Master (if possible)
All materials for this course can be bought from the Central Saint Martins' college shop.
Tutor
Joshua Ewusie
Joshua Ewusie studies the most effortlessly stylish women in London and recreates their spirit in clothing. “She’s tough and has confidence,” says the 26-year old, who was born in west London before moving east while studying womenswear.
A recipient of the British Fashion Council x CHANEL MA scholarship. The Central Saint Martins graduate’s MA collection fused the architectural draping of a Ghanaian dress with a metropolitan streetwise: bugle-beaded dresses and wraparound skirts, wool coats-turned-cocktail dresses and Rihanna-ready bombers. “That hybrid creates a uniqueness.”
Since graduating, he has dressed the likes of Emma Corrin, Little Simz and Lashana Lynch and had features in Schon Magazine, Dazed, Elle UK and British Vogue to name a few. In the coming months Ewusie plans to launch his brand’s e-commerce platform and continue to tutor on the UAL Short Courses and MA programme at Central Saint Martins.
Maximilian Raynor
Maximilian Raynor is a British fashion designer and graduate of Central Saint Martins BA and MA courses, who debuted at London Fashion Week in 2024 and quickly gained recognition for his theatrical, storytelling-driven collections, as well as his use of circular, up-cycled materials.
Raynor has dressed a growing list of high-profile celebrities, including Lady Gaga, Chappell Roan, Rita Ora, Amelia Dimoldenberg, Teyana Taylor, and Ashley Graham, helping establish his reputation among pop culture’s most visible figures.
His rising influence has been recognised through industry accolades, including magazine covers with Perfect and Glamour, editorial features in Dazed, Wonderland + Hunger magazine, and various awards ranging from the ITS Contest Italy to Drapers 30 Under 30 and Attitude 101 Queer Trailblazers. He has lectured for over four years across various courses at Central Saint Martins, London College of Fashion and University of Westminster.
Emma Gluziki
Emma Gluziki is a further and higher education lecturer passionate about supporting students developing their interests into 3D outcomes through exploring modern themes and personal beliefs. Enhancing student’s learning process by utilising teaching experience and extended cultural knowledge to support creative development. Specialisation in portfolio development. creative draping and sustainability through traditional printing technique such as natural dye, pigment extraction and wax printing. She graduated in 2019 from Central Saint Martins and have been doing artist residency, working as a pattern cutting freelancer and business advisor. She is currently Program Manager for an Educational Charity along with developing her own Textile practice.Book a course
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