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Course overview

This course is an introduction to womenswear design that will teach you about designing clothes, finding inspiration anywhere and starting your own fashion collection. You will learn about the process of clothing design and how to research and develop your own collections.

On this practical course you will create fashion drawings and moodboards, helping you identify your unique style and aesthetic. Research is a vital part of the garment making process, so this course has a focus on research techniques. You will learn where to find inspiration and how to create fabric and colour boards. Each week your tutor will set you tasks to complete, so which could be to develop your sketches or document inspiration that you come across in your everyday life. You will learn through lively discussion, tutor Q&As, practical tasks, looking at research project examples and carrying out your own independent research.

By the end of the course, you will know how to take your textile designs from concept to research and how to get ideas for details, fabric design, colours, trends and silhouettes. You will also explore the business side of creating a womenswear brand, from market positioning to promotion.

This course will give you the necessary skills to continue researching and developing collections. By the end of the course, you will have produced a series of final sketches, which you can add to your portfolio before applying for a degree course or even starting your own label.

Who this course is for

This course is suitable for anyone with a keen interest in womenswear who would like to learn fashion design, develop their portfolio and improve their technical knowledge to apply for fashion design degree course or even to launch their own womenswear brand.