Introduction to LCF Fashion Design Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This inspirational and practical fashion design course will immerse you in the world of fashion designers and will help you understand how they undertake the fashion design process. We will introduce you to the principles of fashion design and fashion drawing and show you how to develop your ideas from extensive research.
Read our blog post 'How to Start a Career in Fashion' featuring course tutor Carlyn McGuire.
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for anyone, aged 18 and older, interested in the subject area and a desire to learn but no previous experience is required. This course is taught by one or more tutors.
Key information
Topics covered
- Experimental fashion design analysis
- Primary and secondary design research
- Refining design ideas for your chosen market
- Creating mood boards for colour selection
- Fabric awareness
- Basic fashion drawing techniques
- Exploring different media
Learning outcomes
- Explore diverse opportunities in fashion design, including product design, sewing, embroidery, illustration, and photography
- Learn to approach design challenges with innovative solutions and creative thinking
- Feel inspired to create a personal body of work to showcase design skills and creativity
- Develop key fashion design techniques such as sketching, sewing, and embroidery through hands-on exercises
- Gain insight from real-world stories of successful designers to inspire your own creative journey
- Grow your understanding of the essential processes and tools used in the fashion design process, from concept to creation
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- A3 layout pad
- Pencils and fine black fibre tip pens
- Glue stick
- Magic marker or brush pen in your choice of skin tone
- Laptop / iPad / tablet
These can be purchased from any good art shop. As part of your research, you will be required to do some printing. Please bring a small amount of cash to the course on your first day to credit your printing account. It is unlikely you will need to spend more than GBP 5.
Tutor
Dawn Kelso
Dawn graduated from Womenswear at LCF in 2018 with a first class honours and specialism in techniques of couture dressmaking, and is currently starting a luxury label that focuses on hand-craft and the production of one of a kind pieces made with love, care and skill. Dawn's work explores themes of environmental destruction, capitalism, cultural heritage, and "the end of the world"... she imagines a utopian future that looks much like the past, one where humans are once again in touch with the land from which they live. With transparency and ethical, artisan production at the core, Dawn travels to Bangladesh to source fabric from rural weaving villages, where she meets and interviews weavers, with the intention of partnering with a social enterprise in the near future and a focus on preserving the dying handloom weaving industry. As well as this, she collaborates with her mum (a spinner, dyer and knitter of yarn) to create materials that are entirely handmade and as locally sourced as possible. Dawn's mission is to create a model for a fashion business that makes beautiful clothes free of harm, one that gives back to communities and preserves the life of hand-craft production in developing countries. She has been teaching on short courses since graduating and has a passion for the process, so is excited about passing it on to others!Carlyn McGuire
Carlyn McGuire is a graduate of Central Saint Martins and Senior lecturer at the London College of Fashion at the University of Arts London. Carlyn has taught on the pre-degree course since 2016 and is currently the fashion design leader. With over 20 years teaching experience delivering fashion design and development at pre-degree level. Carlyn specialises in teaching established methods and experimental techniques to prepare and help students discover their fashion design direction and build visual design identity through design development and process. See Carlyn on Instagram: iisf_lcfBook a course
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