Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Institut Fran%C3%A7ais de la Mode are world leaders in the field of Fashion education. This is your opportunity to understand what makes them different, how their teaching methods differ and immerse yourself in an advanced course for fashion graduates to rejuvenate your current practice. Course includesContemporary Fashion in LondonResearch SkillsPractical Fashion Design, Draping and Textile DevelopmentDeveloping 2D Concepts into 3D PrototypesParis content summary - Institut Fran%C3%A7ais de la ModeFinding a vocabulary for your Creative ProcessExpressing and Transmitting your Creative VisionDefining your key style components and whom the designs are aimed at CollectionProcess & StructureInsight into French fashion specifics: Haute Couture & "French Touch" brandsAnalysis of a Fashion Show Contemporary Fashion in Paris

Course leader
Aimee McWilliams is a graduate of Central Saint Martins and Associate Lecturer within the BA Fashion Design department and is also a tutor on the MA at the Royal College of Art. In 2007 she won the prestigious Scottish Designer of the Year Award. Find out

Target group
This programme is aimed at current fashion students or new professionals who wish to broaden and enrich their design experience in two great fashion capitals. Fashion design studies will include references to London and Paris, with projects incorporating influences particular to each city. Studio sessions will be supported by visits to places in London and Paris to gather research material. Entry criteriaTo attend this practical course participants must have completed at least two years of an undergraduate degree in fashion or have at least three years fashion industry experience and be competent in patternmaking and sewing.

Course aim
The key words for the London part of the course are experimentation and exploration. You will be encouraged to fully explore your research and access your processes in anticipation of opening up and discovering new aspects to your work that your processes previously had not allowed for. Having explored the initial stages of the design process in London, the second phase of the course in Paris at Institut Franais de la Mode will give you the opportunity to produce and communicate a clear vision of your creative identity, how it materializes into a fashion project (brand/product) whilst defining whom it is aimed at through an in-depth step by step understanding of your creative universe and style components. This will lead you to formulate and communicate the results of this process through the creation of pictorial boards and manifestos. The clarification of the creative process will lead to the initial stages of a collection process and plan definition.

Fee info
GBP 1600: tuiton onlynote there are no courses in Paris on Tuesday July 14th

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