Fashion Design, Illustration
& Creative Design

  • Program Duration: 14 weeks x 20 Hours a week
  • Lecture: 8 hrs a week
  • Lab: 12 hrs a week
  • Lead Instructor: Julie Berg and Magali Blanc
  • Semester start: Jan, May and Sept

Price: Domestic $6,995

Installment Plans Available

International $8,450.00

Prathibha Nair

★★★★★

I got an opportunity to take up 2 full time courses at The Cut. The 14 weeks courses are perfectly designed to get the candidates prepared for the industry. We had a small class size which meant personalised attention to each student. I was mentored by Liza, and the other instructors, who are some of the most knowledgeable people in the industry. We also got a chance to exhibit our capsule collection at the end of the course which gave the confidence to step into the Vancouver fashion scene. Liza, the Dean at The Cut also greatly helped in finding placements after completion of the course.

I would strongly recommend The Cut to anyone who wants to learn from the best!

 

Fashion Design, Illustration & Creative Design

Overview

This 14-week comprehensive course is tailored to fashion-focused students who want to develop their design skills and is taught by top industry experts. Learn how to conceive, conceptualize and create a full fashion collection for industry presentation. Using fashion illustration techniques, you will gain skills in drawing the fashion figure, and be able to illustrate your designs on a high fashion croquis, utilizing multimedia tools to implement colour into the sketch. The entire fashion cycle and design process will be explored from conception, research, customer profile and mood, to inspiration and execution.

The entire fashion cycle and design process will be explored from conception, research, customer profile, and mood, to inspiration and execution. To complete the creative design process, a final 40-look collection, specific to each designerʼs unique point of view, will be created in full colour, with fabric swatches and technical flat drawings, presented in a professional portfolio.

 
 

“The Cut had exactly what I needed to make my dreams come true!”

Jacqueline Fraser Alumni

 
 

Classes Include

 
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Fashion Elements

  • Recognize and identify garment styles, names, and fashion terminology
  • Learn correct names and pronunciations in the fashion industry
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    Illustrate A Variety Of Elements

  • Learning to illustrate products such as skirts, blouses/shirt, pants and jackets among many others
  • Developing techniques to illustrate details such as lapels, collars, closures, rushing, ruffles, drape and fabric texture
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    Technical Spec Drawing

  • Create and hand render technical drawings for specification packages and line sheets
  • Work from spec library to create new styles
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    Seeing The Figure As Familiar Shapes/Proportion

  • Breaking the figure down into simple shapes
  • Learning about gesture drawing and proportion
  • Fleshing out the figure
  • Illustrating elements such as, faces, hands and feet
  • Exaggerating the figure and creating stylization drawings
  • Students will learn how to render the figure in colour and apply a light source (shadow). Skin tones and hair rendering will be studied and executed in both realism and stylization
  • Live model drawing

    • Rendering

  • Utilizing gouache, markers and colored pencils, students will learn to render fabrics accurately, including prints in actual scale
  • Rendering details on textiles such as linen, wool, satin, leather, vinyl, sequin, lace, eyelet and fur
  • Illustrating patterns such as houndstooth, tweed, pinstripes prints, both geometric and floral
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    Principles Of Design Elements

  • Learning about the 7 silhouettes in fashion
  • Understanding hand, fabrics, weights, seasonality, prints and print matching
  • Practicing the 5:8 proportion and Golden Mean
  • Analyzing rhythm and balance- symmetrical/asymmetrical, Equal and unequal rhythm, continuous line movement and unity

    • Collection Development & Presentation

  • Learn how to bring all the elements of the fashion cycle together and create and draw a 40-piece cohesive collection specific to your own designer niche
  • Students will create professional fashion drawings and learn how to create a professional layout of a 40-piece collection with technical drawings and fabrications, as well as a collection and designer statement
  • Students will present their final presentation to their peers, and the course instructors

    • Inspiration/Research

  • Building a collection concept
  • Learning effective types of research
  • Creating a Brand Matrix and customer profile
  • Developing a mood board for a collection
  • Research and design for a target market/demographic

    • Fabric Research And Fabricating A Line

  • Researching textile trade shows (Premiere Vision)
  • Understanding fabric agents and the role of sourcing
  • Creating a cohesive fabric story
  • Learn how to select appropriate fabrics for seasons and mood, and be able to swatch a collection
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    Program Price

    APPLICATION FEE (Domestic): $250

    APPLICATION FEE (International): $1000

    TUITION (Domestic): $6,995

    TUITION (International): $8,450

    Payment Plans are Available
    (Does not include books and materials, check program outline for details)

     

    Pathway of your career

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    Become a student!

    If you’ve dreamed of turning your passion into an exciting career in fashion, as a designer or in production, this is your chance to bring that dream to life. Perhaps you’re in the industry and need to upgrade your skills? Or you want to develop your existing skills to further a hobby? Or maybe you’re ready to launch an exciting second career. One-on-one education with some of the most creative brains in the business and first-hand experience in a professional workshop will help you build a portfolio fit for the world’s top fashion schools and brands.

    Meet your professors

    Julie Berg

    Julie Berg brings 25 years of forward-thinking fashion design and energy-fuelled marketing talent to the table. A product development specialist for both retail and private labels, she’s crafted contemporary designer sportswear and accessories collections for small-sized independent retailers and big brands alike. Working since the early ’90s with Vancouver’s Neto Leather label, she’s been a creative resource for Canadian retailers Harry Rosen, Bod & Christensen, and Leone, and for US majors such as Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Boston Proper. Travelling across North America and Europe to industry trade shows, Julie has worked with fashion buyers and agencies to assist in marketing positioning and distribution, and with textile mills and tanneries for product development. As a business entrepreneur, she launched her own eco-sportswear label, Know Wear, whose tourism-targeted client list boasted Princess Cruise Lines, BC Ferries and Royal BC Museum, and reached targeted sales projections of $1M in the third year of operation. For the last six years, Julie has served as a full-time professor at prestigious Vancouver art colleges, instructing in both the design and marketing disciplines, ensuring excellent outcomes for the next generation of industry innovators.

    Instructor and materials subject to change

     

    Frequently Asked Questions

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     This program has been approved by the registrar of the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training.
    The Cut Fashion Design Academy is designated with PTIB