Advanced Draping for Fashion Design

Catalog description

Fashion draping is a key essential part of fashion design and an art form that requires precision, concentration and imagination. Helps students develop their artistic and manual skills and learn many of the intermediate and upper-intermediate principles and methods of draping on the dress form, which is discussed and practiced via a series of draping exercises and projects. Requires students during studio sessions to complete creative in-class exercises, including draping muslins/calico and transferring to paper patterns. Students put these techniques to practice by making a finished garment of their own design. Provides students with a proficiency in the draping process and understanding that all design processes rely heavily on the skills covered in this course.