Fashion Design 101: An Introduction

 A fashion career is two-thirds artist and one-third business. Color, pattern making and illustration are all skills a fashion designer must learn to put a collection together. You'll learn how becoming a fashion designer involves many core related principles to completely understand the many facets of the fashion business.

This course is ideal for students, seamstresses and anyone interested in the fashion business and design quality. Since a fashion designer wears many hats, you will gain knowledge about everything from haut couture to budget clothing and that design is about performing research, knowledge of fabric, coordinating color and texture and monitoring quality and fit.

People who strive to become fashion stylists have a profound knowledge of fashion, a fierce personal style and a knack for putting together complete outfits for themselves and others. This course material will provide lots of different information about the fashion world, and so you will understand why it is important to learn about fabrics, prints and other technical aspects of fashion in order to jump-start your fashion career.  

Lesson 1: Historical Content and Education

Lesson 2: Self-Employment or a Top Job

Lesson 3: The Many Languages of Fashion

Lesson 4: The Realities of Manufacturing and Product Development

Lesson 5: Color and Fabric

Lesson 6: Fabric Production

Lesson 7: Developing Personal Creativity and Style

Lesson 8: Defining a Project

Lesson 9: Fashion Business or Fashion Career

Lesson 10: Marketing Your Fashions: Defining Your Uniqueness

Lesson 11: Processing Orders and Accounting

Each lesson will include a practice assignment and lesson review quiz that will directly apply what you have learned.
Students will successfully complete this course by mastering all learning outcomes with 70% or higher overall grade.