Womenswear Design Online Short Course

The Womenswear Design Online Short Course provides an introduction into the key concepts in womenswear design. The course helps aspiring fashion designers identify their own unique style through hands-on research and concept development techniques to produce a collection. Students learn through lively discussion, tutor Q&As, practical tasks, looking at research project examples and independent research tasks. The course explores fashion drawing, illustration and the creation of mood boards exploring fabric and colour to cultivate individual style and aesthetic. By the end of the course students will know how to take their textile designs from concept to research and how to get ideas for details, fabric design, colours, trends and silhouettes. Students will also explore the business side of creating a womenswear brand, from market positioning to promotion. By the end of the course students will have: Created a series of final womenswear design sketches Expanded their portfolio Knowledge of how to effectively carry out research for a womenswear collection Created colour and fabric boards Created research pages