Building A Fashion Collection Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This introductory course guides you through the essential steps of building a fashion collection, from the initial concept and range planning to design and presentation, from folio to runway.
You will begin by defining the purpose of your collection and identifying your target market. Next, you will explore themes that inspire your visual interpretation. Through in-depth research, palette selection, and material sourcing, you will refine your ideas and set the direction for your collection, culminating in the perfect choice of fabrics, colours, and silhouettes. The process continues with creating a storyboard to clarify your intentions, visually laying out the size, diversity, and cohesiveness of your collection.
Finally, you will move into the design phase, where you will select, alter, and refine your designs to achieve a well-balanced and impactful collection.
Womenswear and Menswear are both covered in this course.
Who this course is for
This informative short course is suitable for those looking to start a business, develop a folio worthy project or simply learn how a designer conceives or develops a collection that has an outstanding story and palette at its core.
Key information
Topics covered
- Establish the purpose of your collection and the market you are aiming at
- Find a theme to stimulate a visual interpretation
- Intense research process (Vague ideas will be pinned down and the direction of the collection established, resulting in the right choice of fabric, colour and silhouette.)
- Storyboarding (Clarify your intentions and visually lay out the size and diversity of each story and of the entire range.)
- Designing (Designs are chosen, altered and redrawn and as they evolve a well-balanced collection is achieved.)
Learning outcomes
- Be able to write a design brief to develop creative concepts
- Design the structure of the collection Allocate palette (Cloth, Colour and Detailing)
- Develop innovative and sustainable resourcing
- Understand your next steps from Folio to Runway
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- A5 notepad
- Pen
- Rubber (eraser)
- HB retractable pencil
- Pritt Stick
- 1cm masking tape
- Small pair of scissors
- A4 layout pad
- Colour drawing materials (this can be anything; acrylic, pencils, pastels, water colour etc.)
- Camera / smartphone (for research only)
- Laptop or tablet (you will be researching online but have access to UAL computers - optional)
- Budget for GBP 15- GBP 25 for research photocopying
Tutor
Ian Kettle
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