PRD-375: Experimental Fashion Design

Draw from live fashion models and design a fashion collection. Class projects will involve designing, draping, styling, and drawing from live fashion models. Class drawing sessions will cover fashion proportion and fashion gesture drawing. Projects will also explore manual and digital fashion illustration methods. At mid-term students may bring their own laptops and draw direct from the model. The Final Project will be to create illustrated designs for an apparel collection. The focus will be on collection development with an introduction to fashion trend research and its use for the development of forward thinking design. No sewing involved. Students may use this class to prepare for Design Runway. Open to all majors.