Join one or all of our New Fashion Workshops: Create a Fascinator Hat, Painting on Fabrics, Upcycle Used Garments

Students will create their own designs, using manual methods and digital programs. They will learn to use a variety of illustration tools. They will also create a Mini-Collection of original designs and research/select appropriate fabrics for their designs. One design will be selected, to be constructed in Fashion Design Collection II.
Total Program Hours: 30 hours
Prerequisites:
CD-451 | Fashion Draping Design I, CD-450 | Fashion Pattern Design I,
CD-596 | Fashion Draping Design II, CD-220 | Fashion Pattern Design II

Students will utilize the techniques they learned in Fashion Draping Design I and II, as well as Fashion Pattern Design I and II, to interpret their original design from Fashion Design Collection I,and develop a final pattern.
Total Program Hours: 30 hours
Prerequisites:
CD-451 | Fashion Draping Design I, CD-450 | Fashion Pattern Design I,
CD-596 | Fashion Draping Design II, CD-220 | Fashion Pattern Design II, CD-194 | Fashion Collection I

Students will use the fashion sketching skills that they learned in Fashion Sketching I and II, to create professional digital fashion drawings. Using the Procreate and Photoshop programs the students will create a Fashion Collection for their portfolio.
Total Program Hours: 30 hours
Prerequisites: CD-452 | Fashion Sketching I, CD-208 | Fashion Sketching II, CD-204 | Color Rendering for Fashion Art

Embroidery Workshop is for students interested in making their own embroidery hoops and learning additional skills to enhance their fashion and interior design projects.
Total Program Hours: 7 hours

Students will build on their essential sewing skills, while learning new skills, including Industrial Sewing Machine operations. The Project for this course is a tailored Shirt/Blouse in a Cotton or Cotton-blend fabric. Through this project, students will learn custom construction techniques to achieve a professional-looking tailored Shirt/Blouse.
Total Program Hours: 30 hours
Prerequisites: CD-592 | Sewing Essentials

Students will learn the principles of Color, using the color wheel. They will learn to color their designs in a variety of media, and also how to apply light, shade and blending to render their fashion drawings.
Total Program Hours: 15 hours

Students will learn about the different kinds of fibers, their properties and characteristics, wovens, non-wovens, stretch wovens and knits, basic fabric finishes; and the best end uses for the different fabrics. They will learn how to select the right fabric for a sewing project including, proper handling, pinning, cutting, sewing, pressing techniques, and care of garment, that will yield the desired results.
Total Program Hours: 30 hours

Students will construct a Wool Jacket. They will use traditional and contemporary tailoring techniques such as; Hair Canvas/Fusible Interfacing, Pad Stitching and other Hand Stitches, Taping, Pocket Applications, Notched Collar, Set-In Sleeves, Shoulder Pads/Headings, and Full Lining.
Total Program Hours: 60 hours
Prerequisites: CD-592 | Sewing Essentials, CD-198 | Intermediate Sewing

Students will learn to sketch different fashion apparel silhouettes and styles, including necklines, collars, sleeves, skirts, dresses, pants, and fashion accessories, to create a Mini-Collection. They will also learn techniques in shading and highlighting.
Total Program Hours: 30 hours
Prerequisites: CD-452 | Fashion Sketching I

Students will learn to apply the techniques taught in “Fashion Pattern Design” and advance those skills to interpret various designs using a hands-on method. Students will learn to complete full design drafting such as; dress, pants, skirt, soft jacket and asymmetrical design.
Total Program Hours: 30 hours
Prerequisites: CD-450 | Fashion Pattern Design I

Students will construct one of the Designs they created in Fashion Design Collection I, and have a final pattern they developed in Fashion Design Collection II. The skills that they will incorporate in this process include: handling, sewing and pressing of fine fabrics, couture sewing techniques and industrial sewing machines.
Total Program Hours: 30 hours
Prerequisites: CD-451 | Fashion Draping Design I, CD-450 | Fashion Pattern Design I, CD-596 | Fashion Draping Design II, CD-220 | Fashion Pattern Design II, CD-194 | Fashion Collection I, CD-195 | Fashion Collection II

Students will learn the essential pattern making techniques for interpreting an apparel design. The techniques learned will equip the student to further their studies in all areas of fashion design, and to understand garment construction based on the fashion industry standards.
Total Program Hours: 30 hours

Students will extend their knowledge in the visual art of designing on a Dress Form using muslin fabric. Students will have finished pattern pieces converted from the draped pieces.
Total Program Hours: 30 hours

Students will learn the basic principles of Fashion Sketching and Terminology. These principles will concentrate on sketching the Fashion Figure, beginning with the basic Croquis, developing different fashion figure poses, as well as different fashion faces and hairstyles. These techniques will include shading and highlighting to give the fashion figures dimension.
Total Program Hours: 15 hours

Students will learn basic hand sewing techniques, and sewing/overlock machine operations. They will learn the fundamentals of fabric grain, pattern layout, cutting, sewing, pressing and hand finishing, through a variety of sewing projects, which includes learning how to utilize commercial sewing patterns.
Total Program Hours: 30 hours

Students will apply the techniques taught in “Fashion Draping Design” and advance those skills to designs that require draping visual design details such as; cowl neckline, hand stitch couture pleated bustier, cascade effect on design, draping on the bias, soft jacket with collar and shirring effect.
Total Program Hours: 30 hours
Prerequisites: CD-451 | Fashion Draping Design I