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Fashion
IDC is well known for it’s distinctive and creative approach to fashion design. Students work covers many styles from classic tailoring to the more theatrical approach.
How?
All students for City & Guilds need to complete a Design for Craft unit for the level they are working at. The Design for Craft unit gives the learner a base and understanding for design later on.
Once the first unit has been completed the learner then moves onto the craft of Fashion itself.
To enable the designer to understand and create their styles, a research folder is compiled of fashion that inspire them or anything that sparks their interest in relation to their design including colours or textures they may want to incorporate into design.
This is followed by a portfolio of sewing samples to be completed to ensure the techniques correct for the level of learning are understood. These include ways of creating a seam, finishing a seam, inserting zips, closures, and the correct techniques for button holes and pockets.
Students then move through the individual projects of the syllabus from design brief, and garment design through costing to creation.
Level 2 Fashion
Projects include:
- A waistcoat
- A skirt or pair of trousers
- A shirt
Due to the nature of the fashion design process it is necessary to toile garments (a test version to ensure the fit a pattern is correct). However it can be difficult to carry out a fitting by yourself when making for yourself and you may need an experienced dress maker on hand to help you at some stages. As an IDC student not only do you have the flexibility and support to work on your own time at home you also have the opportunity to attend workshops and classes at the centre as an extra option to your course to support your learning experience.
