1. Fashion Design Class
Instructor: Mrs. C. Ochoa
Explore your creativity in a hands-on project driven curriculum, structured to inspire
and enhance your creativity. Join this class and gain insight into the world of
Fashion, think of yourself as an entrepreneur; use the Art of Fashion as inspiration
for product development, use apparel manufacturing as a business model to explore
careers in fashion, learn about designing for profit.
Curriculum
The Business of Fashion
• Jobs, Career, and Education, necessary to succeed in fashion for profit
• Entrepreneur/Starting a home based business
• Target Market
• Equipment
• Branding
• Advertising
• Costing
Product Development
• Purpose, use, price point, Season
• Collection development
• Illustration/communicating your ideas visually
• Sourcing/fabrication, trims, closures
• Textile knowledge/fabric parts/fabric content/print design
Pattern Design and Engineering
• Draping/pattern manipulation
• flat pattern drafting by measurement
• 1st
. pattern
• Master Pattern
• Foundation Pattern/sloper/basic block/ fitting pattern
• Sample line
Sewing/garment construction
• Quality Control
• Industry Standards
• Sewing sequence
• Marking, lay-out-cutting, grading
• Measurement/ fitting the garment
• Sample Making
Portfolio Development/ Authentic Assessment