Implementation and documentation of a fashion collection design (10 cr)

Objective

- You can design a suit/dress for a specific historical period and/or make use of your knowledge in fashion costume design.
- You can choose the appropriate materials and, if necessary, modify them, cut patterns and manufacture epoch costumes or fashion suits to the selected specific purpose and target group.
- In terms of styling a person, you learn how to design and implement individual solutions for an individual person.
- You practice seeking ideas from various cultures, cultural history and trends
- You learn to take make-up into account as an element supplementing the larger whole
- You learn to do basic makeups and makeups for the show, which complement the stylings of outfits
- You know how to make easy hairstyles for shoots and fashion shows
- You know how to make use of chromatics and design rules in styling a person

In shooting design:
• you learn the basics of how to analyse images
• you learn how to analyse the image for a communicative purpose (e.g. fashion image, product image, editorial-image, mood image, etc.). This is the basis for designing the plan for a shooting situation
• you learn to manage the design of the shooting process, budgeting and schedule
• you learn how to produce a shooting process from idea to realization (shooting location, models, materials, instruments, etc.).

Garment manufacturing 5 ECTS credits, make-up 2 ECTS credits, hairstyle 1 ECTS credits, shooting design 2 ECTS credits (fashion and editorial picture)

Content

• What kind of color and shape experiments to perform for a variety of people and body types?
• What kind of make-up and hairstyle to plan for your designed suit?
• How to assemble a portfolio?

In styling a person:
• How to look for ideas from different cultures, cultural history and trends?
• How to design and implement the outfits according to the needs of the customers?
• What kind of basic makeups and makeups for the show do you learn to do?
• What kind of make-up to use to complement the stylings of outfits?
• What kind of make-up to carry out for your designed outfit?

In shooting design:
- How to implement the actual shooting situation making use of the skills and know-how acquired on the Photography and Image processing course?
- How to manage the whole process?

Course material

Available in Learn platform. Possibly different books, articles etc. which the teacher will hand out.

Study forms and methods

Studies can follow different tracks depending on students’ situations in life. There are three different tracks for the studies: scheduled track, independent track and blended track

More information: https://www.xamk.fi/en/education/studies-at-xamk/

Plan which track is best for you with your personal counselor of your studies. The final way how one will participate in the course will be determined together with the teacher of the course.

RDI and work-related cooperation

Outside worklife related projects are not emphasized in this course.

Timing of exams and assignments

No exam - the collection should be ready at the end of the semester.

International cooperation

International projects are not emphasized in this course.

Student workload

Approximately 270 hours equals about 8 weeks of working. The course includes plenty of independent working.

Course part description

The course is divided into two: documenting the collection designed in the earlier course and making three outfits from it. In the documentation part students will learn what kind of material is needed to present and market a fashion collection. This includes for example lookbook and catalogues.
Students also pick three outfits from their fashion collection designed in an earlier course. They will craft patterns for the outfits and make them. Those outfits will be most likely presented next year either in catwalk fashion show or gallery show produced by students.

Further information

The courses that are recommended to attend before are Käyttäjäymmärrys (Understanding consumer profiles) and Mallistosuunnittelu (Desigin a fashion collection).

The student will need to buy fabrics etc. for their fashion collection.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Grading will be done with numbers 1-5.
The average value will be counted from the grading by two teachers. Professional, informative touch and documentation will be emphasized in the grading. Also the overall look and feel of the three turned in outfits.