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 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 experimenting with our familiarity with tradition and elaborating on it. Tradition, in its turn, filtered through contemporary awareness and benefit from new technologies, is transformed into innovation. The fashion system functions as a reflection of the contemporary world and as a prediction of the near future, but also as a dream, as emotions. Our emotions are always the main driving force of the act of creation.

This Masters course is designed to keep a very close relationship with the real working world, exploiting the opportunity to dialogue with and learn directly from people who occupy leading roles in the fashion business. The course aims to develop students’ ability to shape their ideas as a force for generating products, going beyond superficial creativity. It is an advanced form of training that forges contacts between students and all aspects of the design process, from the up-front thinking to the execution and from presenting to communicating. At the end of the course, students will be ready to play an effective role in fashion firms.... [-]

Fashion is education about beauty, the ability to express thoughts and emotions, the most direct expression of the contemporary world: colours, shapes and materials in perfect harmony. It is the most lively of the art forms, thriving on people in real life. Like in a major theatre "pièce", getting the stage-set just right is crucial in the game of seduction, but a part cannot stand for the whole. To be able to keep on winning over an increasingly stimulated and probably confused consumer is to go back to fundamentals by employing in-depth technical training.... [-]

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.... [-]

‘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.

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.

They enhance their creative talents by practising on 4 different thematic workshops dedicated to Womenswear, Menswear, Bespoke, and Contemporary. These projects provide students with high-level tailoring methods, research and project development tools, in order to meet the market needs of the future.... [-]