STUDY PROGRAMME
Fashion and Textile Design

AFAM CODE
ABPR34

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Fashion Design

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Fashion Design

CREDITS
12

APPROACH
Theoretical/project-based

This course introduces the students to the design of a clothing collection characterised by a personal touch, with a reflection on the contemporary role of fashion. In the Fashion design 1 module, the students are invited to express their personal point of view through experimentation and the creation of physical and visual works that define their identity in terms of ideas, narration, shapes, manufacture, choice of materials and technical drawing. In the Draping and moulage 1 module, the students get to know and use draping techniques to support their fashion design process, in order to study and understand the development of shapes and models by working directly on the three dimensions of the human body.

The programme grants 12 credits, divided as follows:

• FASHION DESIGN 1: 6 CFA

• DRAPING E MOULAGE 1: 6 CFA

Successful students will be able to:

FASHION DESIGN 1:

• Analyse a topic, and define the relevant research, concept, moodboard, and sketches

• Know what are the steps of designing and planning, and how they are consistent with one another

• Develop a collection by managing the creative as well as the technical phases at the same time

• Put together a collection book containing all the phases of a project

DRAPING E MOULAGE 1:

• Understand the basic rules of draping

• Understand the behaviour of fabrics in relation to a piece, shape and style of the garment in the categories of dresses, skirts, and trousers.

• Know how to turn a canvas prototype into a paper pattern

• Handle fabrics and drape original and personal pieces in the categories of dresses, skirts, and trousers.

FASHION DESIGN 1:

• Front lessons and accurate reviews will guide the students into defining a theme, as well as its related references and their transposition into the concept, mood board, selection of materials, sketches, and prototypes.

DRAPING E MOULAGE 1:

• Thanks to practical exercises and workshops, the students will learn the basic techniques of draping (from measurements to their translation into flat patterns), focusing on styles, variations and details of skirts, dresses, and trousers.

This is a theoretical/project based course.

Over the course, the students will carry out didactic activities that are functional to achieving the learning goals, that in both modules may include:

• Front lectures

• Development of individual projects

• Individual study and research

• Laboratories

• Exercises and revisions

• Individual sessions and tutoring

FASHION DESIGN 1:

• Submission of papers and research work

DRAPING E MOULAGE 1:

• Submission of practical exercises and research work

Further details on the specific tests will be given by the professor.

The final grade for this course will result from the weighted average of its modules.

FASHION DESIGN 1:

• Arnold, J. (1982) Patterns of Fashion 2: c1860 - 1940, Drama Books.

• Brigdland, A.S. (2011) Military Dress - A Tailor’s Guide, Alcester, Read Books.

• Brigdland, A.S. (2017) The Modern Tailor Outfitter and Clothier, Vol. I, Obscure Press.

• Fashionary (2016) Fashionpedia: the Visual Dictionary of Fashion Design, Fashionary International Limited.

• Fashionary (2020) Textilepedia: the complete fabric guide, Fashionary International Limited.

• Kawamura, Y. (2004) Fashion-ology: An Introduction to Fashion Studies, Bloomsbury.

• Kershaw, G. (2013) Patternmaking for Menswear, London, Laurence King.

• Ling, W., Segre Reinach, S. (2017) Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape, Tauris Academic Studies.

• Rocamora, A., Smelik, A. (2016) Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists, London / New York, I.B.Tauris.

DRAPING E MOULAGE 1:

• Amaden-Crawford, C. (1996) The Art of Fashion Draping. Fairchild Publications.

• Attardi, D. (2018) La tecnica del moulage. Corso pratico di progettazione moda. Vol.1, ediz. illustrata, Ikon.

• Jaffe, H., Relis, N. (2005) Draping. Pearson Prentice Hall NJ.

• Rosen, S. (2005) Make it fit. Fairchild publications NY.

A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.

Further books and other recommended or required resources may be specified by the professor.