Learning Institute: Fashion Design 2011

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 introduces students to fashion processes, from trend research to a final storyboard presentation of their own collection. They will learn how to use fun and creative software, such as 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, including the science of color, an introduction to fabric and garment construction, math for pricing garment costs, and writing a press release for the finished collection.

The class will culminate with each designer presenting her/his storyboard 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.

Program Director: Sally Rosenberg
M.A., computer graphics, New York Institute of Technology; B.A., fine arts/marketing, SUNY Albany.