| Elastic Limbs - from T-shirt to high performance wear |
Fashion Design |
2026 (001) |
Summer 2025 |
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Description
This course explores the flexibility of cut & sew knitwear. From the comfort of the ubiquitous T-shirt to high performance athletic wear, fashion made with pliant knitted fabrics is everywhere. In its brief history since the invention of the button-less shirt in jersey fabric, sewn knitwear has ushered in radically modern dress through sportswear, dancewear, and athletic wear. Designers, stylistic innovation and technological processes are further examined through lectures and case studies. Students will explore the variations and design potential of flexible knitted fabrics, and the considerations, methods, and equipment to assemble and finish designs cut from knit fabric.
Designers, stylistic innovation and technological processes are further examined through lectures and case studies. These include fashion designers Stephen Burrows, Rudi Gernreich, Xuly Bet, Coco Chanel, or Donna Karans 5 easy pieces, as well as in iconographic performances such as by Nicolais Louis Dance, or Martha Grahams ¿Lament¿, or contemporary artists such as Erneste Neto or Malin Bulow.
Students will explore the variations and design potential of flexible knitted fabrics, and the considerations, methods, and equipment to assemble and finish designs cut from knit fabric. They will drape, make patterns and block, and stitch finished garments from their design and research; first in a test fabric with similar properties, and then in a material, color and detail (optional) of their choice.
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Class Number
1457
Credits
3
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| FASH: Spatial Habitats |
Fashion Design |
4907 (001) |
Fall 2025 |
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Description
This fashion capstone course explores methods and processes for research, planning, and production leading up to the installation of a body of work. Students will consider the space, duration, audience, and partners as they develop mock-ups and draft proposals and pitches. Students contemplate curation for solo or group exhibits, work in teams, and gain professional practice as they lay the groundwork for development of a fully considered display. The class will have the opportunity to conceive, curate and build out a public facing installation, either in the Fashion Department Exhibition Space, or as part of the annual spring show.
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Class Number
1170
Credits
3
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| Studio Techniques |
Fashion Design |
5122 (001) |
Fall 2025 |
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Description
Students approach cloth as a medium: methods of handling, joining, and manipulating fabric, as well as concepts and methods of defining and finishing edges, enclosures, and openings. Foundational draping techniques involve manipulating a flat piece of material in the three-dimensional form of the body and then transferring this original design to the flat pattern, or block. The development of a basic set of blocks (slopers) defining a 3-dimensional form becomes the foundation to generate variations and options using flat pattern design. The importance of weave and material characteristics, as they apply to design are investigated. Students engage with form and volume on the body through combined draping and drafting methods, such as reshaping areas of an existing form, as well as manipulating fabric prior to molding it to the body, and they study hand- and machine- finishes to achieve sculpting and manipulating cloth.
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Class Number
1984
Credits
3
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| Fashion Design Studio II |
Fashion Design |
5330 (001) |
Spring 2025 |
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Description
This course investigates communication through dress, and the interface of the individual within the context of communities, both real and imagined. Technology, its impact and its potential for added function or meaning are investigated. Students continue their process of essential journaling to develop a high level of professionalism throughout their work, emphasizing a personal style and direction.
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Class Number
1915
Credits
6
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| Graduate Fashion Design Studio IV: Fashion, Fusion Vision |
Fashion Design |
6330 (001) |
Spring 2025 |
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Description
Branding, imaging, time lines and sequencing are addressed as collections are refined and presented. In this a one and one-half day course students finalize 12 silhouettes from their master collection or equivalent body of work. The final presentation includes a setting, a written component, and supporting visual materials. With the thesis presentation, students demonstrate their ability to professionally position their work within the field.
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Class Number
1916
Credits
6
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