Womenswear Design (Online Short Course)

This course is an introduction to womenswear design for those who have a keen interest in this field. With a key focus on research techniques, the course aims to take you through the process of designing and developing a womenswear collection helping you identify your unique style and aesthetic. You will discover the essential skills of exploring themes and concepts, making mood boards, developing sketchbooks, colour and fabric boards and understanding your customers. Further, you will learn how to use research techniques to develop womenswear silhouettes, choose fabrics and colours, develop sketches, details and textures. You will also study the work of some key womenswear designers who have and are shaping womenswear design with weekly assignments that will help you to develop your own fashion portfolio and will give you the necessary tools to continue researching and developing collections.


Week 1:

• Introduction to Fashion Design
• Key terms in Fashion design
• Studying Womenswear details
• Introduction to Fashion Drawing

Week 2:

• Introduction to research in design
• Starting a Fashion Collection
• Research Techniques Assignment

Week 3:

• Assignment feedback session
• Discussing concept for final project

Week 4:

• Brief introduction to the business of fashion - Part 1
• Studying key womenswear designers and their collections
• Assignment feedback

Week 5:

• Brief introduction to the business of fashion - Part 2
• Assignment feedback

Week 6:

• Final Assignment Presentation

Level:

Beginners. You should have an interest in the subject area and a desire to learn but no previous experience is required.

Why choose an LCF online learning short course?

Our online learning short courses allow you to experience London College of Fashion wherever you are in the world. The real-time chat sessions are fully interactive allowing you to communicate easily with the tutor at the same time as fellow students. You will participate in the live classes each week and you will undertake weekly assignments to be completed in your own time.

Online learning:

Please make sure you are available to participate in the live online chat sessions which are run to UK time.

All online learning courses include weekly chat sessions with your tutor and other students on the course, which are conducted through an interactive seminar (called Blackboard Collaborate). The chat sessions will include text and voice/video chat, as well as an opportunity to 'share' your tutor's desktop so that s/he can navigate you through websites, powerpoint presentations and other work. These sessions are essential to attend each week, so please check the times of the course when you book and take into account any local time differences.

You may also be required to undertake weekly assignments between sessions. These will be housed on our Workflow website, along with additional resources and discussion forums which can be used to interact with fellow students in between classes. You may be expected to dedicate between one - two hours a week to these self-study projects. A full technical specification is listed in 'Materials'.

Booking:

Please book as early as possible. This will allow us enough time to provide you with login for the online short course learning software. When making your booking do not tick the 'If you DO NOT hold a UK/EU/EEA passport click here' box as this is only relevant for classroom courses. If we send you an email telling you to present your passport to us, please ignore this email, as it does not apply to you. If no dates are available for this course please 'Make an enquiry' using the link below and we will contact you when new dates are published.