This course will prepare students to approach the Italian fashion design creativity through an in-depth analysis of “Made in Italy”, in which tradition and experimentation have contributed to creating collections famous all over the world.

Introduction Fashion System
Study of the essential features which influence trends: culture and lifestyle factors, unique Italian artcraft skills, production district specializations and the extraordinary creative and technological potential of fabric.

Draping
After a brief presentation of the common utilisation of draping in fashion design till today, the student will design and realise as a prototype, an abstract and an innovative application of draping.
Due to the direct application on fabrics and through practical experimentation, each project will be the artistic study of dynamism and proportion mixed to the reality of a tri-dimensional projection. A real contemporary application of a traditional technique to re-define the application of draping in a creative and cultural dimension.

Pattern model and Tailoring techniques
The course will teach through the laboratory experiences, the basic knowledge of pattern making and tailoring in order to allow the students to create their own models.

Deconstructing Fashion
As an answer to a real and global request, deconstruction in Fashion design seems to be a new language.
Based on a rigorous and actualised study of structure in Fashion Design, the student will have to understand and apply to a tri-dimensional project a personal concept, to propose a masterpiece and an experimentation of this new and personal codification.
The traditional technique of “Moulage” will help the student to find a common language between fashion design and artistic innovation to propose a new and irreverent application to one of the main element in design: construction and balance searching the new sense of volume in today’s fashion application.