Fashion Design

The curriculum presented here applies to students who started the major in Fall 2020 or Spring 2021. If you enrolled as a matriculant prior to that, please see the College Catalog for the year you started the major as a matriculant for the curriculum requirements that apply to you.

Consultation with the Program Advisor is required.

Upon successful completion of the Fashion Design degree program requirements, graduates will:

1. understand the nine head proportions of fashion figure (croquis)

2. discover which of the three media they are most comfortable and adept with

3. understand the basics of shading the three dimensional figure

4. use the croquis developed in Fashion Sketching For Fashion Designers I (FD 1100) as a basis for original designs

5. render design ideas into finished sketches for portfolio presentation

6. create original design sketches based on fabric samples (swatches)

7. graphically represent garment construction for sample garment production, using notes where necessary

8. plot and cut patters in PDS

9. operate a straight stitch sewing machine to construct garments

10. sew seams, pleats, darts, pockets, collars, welts, zippers, invisible zippers, and gathers

11. use a professional draping dress form