Familiarization with the tools used in the fashion industry. Development of fundamental skills and terminology of clothing construction. Emphasis on interrelationship of fabric, fiber, design and construction techniques. This course is required of all Fashion Design and Merchandising majors. This course is a study of the basic pattern drafting techniques of the apparel industry and the transfer of a design to a flat pattern.
Students learn to design and make their own patterns.
This course will give students skill in drawing fashion figures and deals with contemporary idealized proportions used for fashion today for both fashion design and fashion merchandising. Students will develop individual style in their presentation, and learn to use their drawing as a means of communicating their ideas and designs. This course provides the student with advanced techniques used to illustrate fashion and is for students of fashion design or fashion merchandising. Techniques are taught that are used for quick and realistic sketching and rendering with water color to illustrate various designs and textures. Fashion 6A or 13.