Fashion Design La Maison

Classes will be taught both Italian and English

Is more than just a simple course in that it contains all the specific techniques of a traditional formation in Fashion Design and the various disciplines that cross it, as well as the primary activity of Cool Hunting, that have to be present to generate future talents, STYLISTS able to surprise and fascinate and above all add innovation to their own creations.

Course program

First Level

Introduction to designSketch and technic designMoodboard, inspiration, research ideas and trendsPreparation to fashion collectionPattern-making principlesLa Maison laboratory, from design to the clothing-to-be, experience the fashion MaisonAccessories design preparationThe fashion systemIntroduction to fashion marketing and to fashion strategiesIntroduction to graphic, color techniques, and rendering fulfillmentChromatology, hand design, and graphic design rendering techniquesCostume history, from Paleolithic age up to the beginning of 1500... [-]

The Art Directors are the Fashion System’s most important celebrities: wooed by the big Fashion houses and known worldwide, they are famous for their unforgettable collections and brilliant ideas, or for having revived, with sometimes audacious choices, the fates of brands in decline.

The Fashion house’s Creative Director is the creative team’s leader and has the task of creating collections that respect the brand’s tradition and are at the same time carriers of an innovative and competitive spirit in the marketplace. It is an important role and one of great responsibility that requires artistic and managerial expertise.

The Department of Civil Engineering, Design, Construction, Environment (DICDEA), AA 2015-16 has activated a new integrated study course with the Beijing Institute of Fashion and Technology (BIFT) in Beijing. The course offers students the opportunity to achieve a double degree, ie a double degree Master studies in Fashion Design. More precisely, the course lasts Biennale; It provides a training program designed together at their university alien and a mobility period abroad (1 ½ years); involves the release, at the end of the study period, two graduate degrees in Fashion Design (double degree), one of which will be valid in Italy and the other partners of the university in the country. Therefore, for students that new course is an opportunity to enrich their curriculum and introduce themselves into the working world with a complete and international educational profile.... [-]

The Master in Fashion Design shapes a fashion designer who can easily enter the product area of fashion and luxury goods businesses.

The course explores a range of creative and design elements as well as training participants in the technical aspects of fashion industrial production; such as collection planning, merchandising, costing and processing. Fundamental components of the course include garment construction and production processes, completed by the use of moulage techniques and 3D CAD simulations. The curriculum also covers specialist techniques in textile design, fabric finishing, and embellishment.

Students are furthermore taught how to improve the processes employed in the creation of accessories collections, strengthened through the use of CAD design and 3D printers, and will also gain the skills needed to build and promote a start-up company.... [-]

Creativity means experiencing through the knowledge and elaboration of tradition. In turn, tradition, filtered from contemporary sensitivity and using new technologies, becomes the new one. The fashion system works as a reflection of the contemporary and as anticipation of the near future, but also as a dream, as an emotion. Emotion is always the driving principle of the creative act.

The Master is designed to adhere to working reality through the possibility of confrontation and learning in direct contact with figures that have central roles in companies. The course aims to develop in students the power of ideas as a generating force of products, going beyond creativity in a manner. This is an advanced training that comes into contact with all aspects of the project, from thinking to implementation, from presentation to communication. At the end of the tour, the participants are ready to work effectively in the companies.... [-]

Fashion is beautiful education, the ability to express thoughts and emotions, the most direct manifestation of contemporary life. Colors, shapes and materials in perfect harmony. It is the most lively of art forms, which lives in people, in real life. As in a great theatrical play, staging is crucial in the game of seduction, but the part can not stand for the whole thing. To be able to regain an increasingly stressed and probably confused consumer, you need to go back to the substance through in-depth technical training.... [-]

The Man Fashion sector covers a large part of the international market of Fashion. To face the world of the Man Fashion, it’s important to study and understand its reality and requirements. It’s important to study anatomy and the fashion sketch techniques first, then, later on, understand the psychological aspect related to the single style. The educational path starts from the study of the “Fashion System” and proceeds by making the student get autonomous in creating a Collection and a Portfolio. The plan gets developed through specific books and by taking advantage of highly qualified professional people of the industry, who are able to excellently educate their own students.... [-]

The course is aimed to forge fashion designers who are specialized in conceiving women clothes collections and accessories. For this reason it’s important to own the basics and get to realize a portfolio, essential for the student’s own presentation. Once learned the basics of drawing, the student will go deep in the “woman” subject by realizing several kinds of collections and studying the current, old and future trends. The course lets the student make a deepened study about fabrics and the graphical design of the collection, about the product marketing and the technical development, to let the students move with higher self-confidence, due to a better knowledge of the fashion world.... [-]

THIS COURSE IN HELD IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

The course works as a creative laboratory that guides participants to the progressive acquisition of a clear project development methodology applied to the Made in Italy know-how. Working in the the fashion system in Italy means working within a definite and unique environment that implies the

combination of design, style, manufacturing and society changes, that made history.

Participants improve their ability in exploring fashion trends, combining theoretical knowledge and awareness of Italian design with creativity and defining a strong and innovative fashion language in terms of ideas, shapes, textiles, colors and production processes.... [-]

PaymentOne Year: 1100 euro at the enrollment + 9 monthly installments of 600 euro ... [-]

Duration: 160 lessons 480 hours

Start-up: September

Attendance: From Tuesday to Friday from 9.00 to 12.00, Tuesday from 14.30 to 17.30

Enrollment: Until June. Limited number.

Subjects: Basis and fancy pattern making. Grading. Cut and manufacturing techniques, Lectra CAD Suite.

Professional outlets: Companies producing clothes, fashion workshops, self-employment.

Pattern making

Duration: 220 lessons 660 hours

Start-up: September

Attendance: From Tuesday to Friday from 9.00 to 12.00, Saturday from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm, Tuesday and Thursday from 14.30 to 17.30

Enrollment: Until June. Limited number.

Subjects: Fashion Illustration. Fashion Styling. Textile technology. History of costume. Basis and fancy pattern design.Cut and Manifacturing Techniques. Adobe Photoshop, Kaledo Style.

Professional outlets: Companies producing clothes, fashion workshops, self-employment.

Fashion Design

The Fashion Stylist course aims to introduce the professional figure of the Stylist, analyzing his skills and different activities.

The course will be based on theoretical lessons in which the unwritten rules that articulate relations with press offices, photo agencies, etc. will be deepened.

An extremely important part of the course is one of the seminars with professionals, which will allow the students to have direct contact with international working realities.

A special relationship that IFDA has with magazines such as ELLE, Glamour, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, VOGUE etc..., allows both visits and seminars directly with great exponents of fashion and communication.... [-]

A Capsule Collection is a small collection of limited and easily interchangeable garments.

The designer is the heart of the fashion system, but it is no longer only the creative who draws a drawing and colors it: the pure and simple talent is no longer enough nowadays because the designer not only creates clothes but also lifestyles.

Some of the fashion professionals involved:

‘Learning by Designing’ is how Domus Academy will boost your career. Not only it is a place where the designers of tomorrow can produce wonders and surprises, it is also a place where students can discover new realities and invent professional trajectories aligned with tomorrow’s market demands.