Certificate
Certificate
Certificate Program
This program requires 40 weeks of training. This program is designed to have students demonstrate certain fundamental skills including pattern development, pattern making, and specific pattern pieces and clothing. This program is designed to provide comprehensive training in pattern development and specific clothing parts that lead to the final clothing piece. This program is specific to details and organization.
- . Admission requirements, including minimum levels of prior education, preparation, or training
1) Completed application and submitted application fee
2) Two letters of recommendations
3) Recent photograph/Driver License/Passport
4) Be at least 18 years of age
5) Official High School transcript, a certified copy of a high school diploma or a certified copy of a GED certificate
6) Be physically capable of performing and receiving massage techniques taught in the program
7) Complete a personal interview with the administrative staff to assess academic and financial capabilities, as well as goals
8) Submit to a mandatory background check
Pattern Making & Assembling Technique
Knitwear Design
Production
- Program Duration: 38 weeks x 20 Hours a week
- Lecture: 8 hrs a week
- Lab: 12 hrs a week
- Lead Instructor: Colette Eum
- Quarter start: April, July and October, January.
Price: $6,995
Installment Plans Available
Fashion Designer Certificate Course
PATTERN MAKING for Fashion Designers. This is a beginner course on how to draft patterns, and some draping.
Students will learn the Principals of Pattern Drafting (Dart Manipulation, Added Fullness, Contour).
Students will learn Techniques such as Pivoting and Slash-and-Spread.
Students will learn to draft an A-Line Skirt.
Students will learn to draft a Yoke unto a skirt and Add Fullness to the skirt.
Students will learn how to draft Princess Stylelines/Seams. And Darts, Pleats, Tucks.
They will learn Grainlines and how to label Patterns. Including Notches and Seam
Course Development
An Overview of the Fashion Design Industry
Customer Motivations
Who’s Who (and Where) in Fashion Design
Fashion Seasons and Cycles
The Categories of Fashion
Producing Garments from Design through Execution
Developing Your Skills
Identifying Trends and Enhancing Your Creativity
Sketching by Hand versus Computer-Aided Design
Identifying and Acquiring Textile and Sewing Knowledge
Formal and Informal Ways to Hone Your Skills
Marketing Your Designs
Define Your Target Market and Leverage Your Unique Selling Point
Industry Tools for Fashion Design
Website, Catalogs and Other Marketing Tools
Advertising and Free Publicity
Private Clients, Boutiques, Department Stores or Online?
Three Types of Shows
Consignment, Payment, Returns, Sample Sales and Many Other Topics
Getting Hired as a Fashion Designer
Types of Employers and Responsibilities of Design Employees
Entry-Level Positions in Apparel and the Best Ways to Find Job Openings
Preparing Your Portfolio and Theme Boards
Powerful Resumes, Cover Letters, Interviews and References
Starting Your Own Fashion Design Business
Choosing a Niche
Your Business Plan
Start-Up Budgeting and Funding
Choosing a Name and Trademarking Your Label
Supplies and Equipment for Design and for Manufacture
Finding and Choosing Employees, Contractors and Manufacturers
Courses Operation
This Course is about using the techniques of pattern making, also known as pattern drafting, in fashion design, to create patterns that will then be used to cut fabric and ultimately be sewn into garments. Methods and techniques studied in major fashion universities are demonstrated in a clear and simple visual so that anyone interested in learning about fashion design can, and will learn the foundational principles of fashion design. New terminology is clearly explained and applied to the subject matter.
As a fashion designer, pattern making is essential in learning how garments are created and put together. A good fashion designer must learn pattern making in order to really understand the construction of his/her designs.
VIDEOS + DEMOS: In this course students will learn:
Basic Principles of pattern-making such as Dart Manipulation and Added Fullness and Contour.
Students will learn techniques such as Pivoting and Slash-and-Spread.
Where patterns come from: draping muslin bodice on dress form.
Drafting Princess Seams.
Drafting an A-Line skirt.
Drafting Skirt Yokes and adding fullness to skirt.
Grainlines and Pattern Labeling.
Trueing Darts.
Tools necessary for drafting patterns.