Learning Institute: Fashion Design

Are you a budding fashion designer looking to have fun with color, style and pattern while also learning the skills and steps to creating an exciting and marketable fashion collection? This Fashion Design program is structured to introduce the students to all of the processes from trend research to a final story board presentation of their own collection. They will be learning the fun and creative software, Graphics-Toolbox to design their own line. The young designers will start with a library of existing sketched silhouettes and garment parts and learn to combine them to create their own styles. They will choose prints, recolor them to match their customized color story, and create coordinating prints, stripes and solids to be filled into the silhouettes. They will learn to merchandise their line to have a salable balance of tops and bottoms, solids and prints. Important related specialties will be introduced like the science of color, an introduction to fabric and garment construction, math for pricing garment costs and writing a press release about the finished collection. The class will finish with each designer presenting her/his story board collection to the other students and parents. An emphasis will be placed on working together as a design team and sharing ideas and suggestions throughout the design process.