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3000 Level Fashion Design Course Descriptions
FASH 3001
Fashion Construction III
This first part of a two-semester course focuses on advanced construction,
pattern drafting, grading, tailoring, and creative draping techniques
as used for women’s and men’s garments. The principles of
proportion, balance, and fit as required for the achievement of well-made
garments are also studied. Concurrent enrollment in FASH 3002 required.
FASH 3002
Fashion Design III
This first part of a two-semester course concentrates on the creation
and development of collections for women’s, men’s, and children’s
wear, using a wide range of fabrications. Particular attention is given
to the use of color, texture, and patterns. The students are given a
series of creative draping problems emphasizing proportion, fit, and
design refinement. All final projects are fitted on models in both muslin
and fabric. Prerequisite: FASH 2004.
FASH 3003
Fashion Construction IV
This second part of a two-semester course focuses on advanced construction,
pattern drafting, grading, tailoring, and creative draping techniques
as used for women’s and men’s garments. The principles of
proportion, balance, and fit as required for the achievement of well-made
garments are also studied. Concurrent enrollment in FASH 3004 required.
FASH 3004
Fashion Design IV
This second part of a two-semester course concentrates on the creation
and development of collections for woman’s, men’s, and children’s
wear, using a wide range of fabrications. Particular attention is given
to the use of color, texture, and patterns. The students will be given
a series of creative draping problems emphasizing proportion, fit, and
design refinement. All final projects are fitted on models in both muslin
and fabric. Prerequisite: FASH 3002.
FASH 3005
Advanced Shape and Theory in Garments
This advanced-level course examines the transformation of form and identity
with the body. Particular emphasis will be placed on challenging the
literal definition of garment through various processes such as draping,
deconstruction, and reuse. Students will explore scale and materials
from hard to soft, flexible to rigid. Projects using found objects and
alternative resources will also be introduced. Through various assignments,
students will be encouraged to expand their thinking outside the common
solution, using unfamiliar territories, placing them in new contexts.
Several projects are assigned involving individual and group critiques
with development of personal direction related to contemporary issues.
Parallel development in sculptural practices and design will also be
examined to see the emerging context of garment as art. Prerequisite:
FASH 2005
FASH 3010
Multi-Level Fashion Illustration
This course is designed for students who have completed beginning fashion
illustration. Emphasis is placed on personal style and media development.
Students explore a variety of texture rendering and illustration problem-solving.
Prerequisite: FASH 2007.
FASH 3015
Second Skins: Beyond Traditions
This course investigates issues related to creating objects connected
to the environment and body such as skins, wraps, shelters, protections,
outerwear, and covers. Traditional and non-traditional materials will
be used to create new surfaces. Emphasis is placed on reconfiguring
the body by altering and integrating various surfaces of pliable material,
building two- and three-dimensional skins into form and function. Students
will investigate skin and body in contemporary design and will look
at recent theory surrounding these issues.
FASH 3017
Rush Hour Sculpture: Art Atop Heads
Following a field trip and slide lecture introducing style, history,
and symbolism in western and nonwestern headwear, students will learn
pattern making, forming, and adorning headwear. Fashionable and artistic
headwear will be investigated. The class will be divided into a series
of workshops, studio time, and group critiques. Display artist John
Kock will teach block making onto which materials can be formed. Milliner
Eia Radosavljeic will instruct traditional methods of forming felt and
straw on existing hat blocks. Designer Tommy Walton will demonstrate
forming nontraditional materials. Faculty member and metalsmith Gillion
Skellenger Carrara will demonstrate the manipulation of various materials
for functional attachments and adornments.
FASH 3018
Advanced Knitwear: Machine Structures
This course enables students who hand knit to pursue the challenge of
creating garments and/or objects with knitting machines. Through demonstration
and discussion of traditional basic methods and structured exercises
will give the students a foundation in various stitch patterns and techniques.
Shape and fit along with texture manipulation are explored. Historical
reference as well as current contemporary design concepts will be researched
enabling students to focus on individual design to produce a garment
or an object. Students will design, sample, and explore possibilities
in a traditional and non-traditional manner using various materials.
Prerequisite: FASH 2018
FASH 3250
Fashion on the Outside and Beyond
This course is an open forum designed to address issues confronting
fashion/dress, from everyday “uniforms” to the avant-garde.
Through readings, lectures, presentations, and site visits students
will explore global and universal themes, personal identity and issues
of body in space, and garment and ritual within social and geographic
boundaries. Students will be required to produce projects based on their
personal investigation of fashion as it relates to a world without borders,
and how it affects us, surrounds us, constricts us and enables self
expression.
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