Fashion Design +
Creative Arts (Virtual)

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

Price: $6,995

Installment Plans Available

Fashion Design, Illustration & Creative Design (Virtual)

 

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.

 
 

“Its amazing how much they can teach you in just 4 months! I came here having just basic sewing skills and now I know how to produce pretty much any of the clothes I see around!”

 
 
 

Classes Include

“Its amazing how much they can teach you in just 4 months! I came here having just basic sewing skills and now I know how to produce pretty much any of the clothes I see around!”

 
 
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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
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    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

    • 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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    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

    • 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

    • Program Price

    APPLICATION FEE (all students): $50

    ASSESSMENT FEE (all students): $100

    TUITION: $6,995

    Payment Plan 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

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    Jason Matlo

    Jason Matlo is a Canadian fashion designer who has been in the business for fifteen years. With three lines and a devoted clientele for both his commercially available garments and custom creations, Matlo has been able to utilize his couture background to create exceptional collections.

    Instructor and materials subject to change

     

    Frequently Asked Questions

    You have questions, we have answers.
    If you can’t find what you’re looking for in our FAQ section below, use our online submission form.

     
     
     
     

     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 Design Academy is designated with PTIB