COURSES
The curriculum combines advanced technical training with courses involving creative research and development, the humanities and critical theory. This gives students ample means to develop systemic and transdisciplinary practices, all the while providing a more holistic understanding of design.
1st Year
Feltmaking
Collection Development
Construction
Digital Studio
Introduction to Tailoring
Creative Draping
Design Development
Fashion Illustration
Editorial Photography Art Direction
2nd Year
3D Architecture
Bespoke Tailoring
Design Development
Branding
Design Textile
Collection Development
Digital Fashion
Patternmaking
Editorial Photography Art Direction
3rd Year
Starting January 2024
3D Architecture
This course explores the potential of networking parallel 'Fashion and Architecture' theoretical and practical methodologies in a digital studio, in which students use computer technologies and advanced manufacturing tools crossed with craftsmanship to achieve 1:1 scale clothing prototypes.
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Creative Draping
This course focuses on developing students' skills in pattern making, draping, sewing, and prototype construction within a critical and creative context. These skills are presented as design tools to be used in iterative and open processes, enabling students to execute solutions for design problems.
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CSB-SD encourages peer-to-peer learning and creates individualized paths of study where students produce their own work under the mentorship of local and international artists and designers.
Editorial Photography
Art Direction
This course aims to introduce students to the fundamentals of being a creative team leader and art director for multimedia commercial fashion and advertising communication.
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Branding
During this studio course, students delve into the application of visual identity systems in both printed and digital contexts, focusing on the conceptualization and design of brand identities through the process of creating a comprehensive visual identity. Throughout the course, students also explore the role of brands in society.
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Bespoke Tailoring
This course teaches students professional skills in developing the complex stages and details for outerwear and tailored garments. Students gain the ability to select and employ suitable methods of manufacturing for specific designs with consideration of fabric types and weights.
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Collection Development
This course guides the students through the creative process towards the goal of designing and creating a cohesive collection.
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Design Textile
Textile Design includes both the construction of fabrics as well as surface design. Students explore construction processes such as felting, weaving, knitting, knotting, and crocheting, and surface design methods that apply the use of imagery in certain repeats and layouts and printing technologies such as digital, block or relief, heat transfer, silkscreen.
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Patternmaking
The course also introduces the core principles of pattern cutting at a professional industry level and explores the role of pattern making in the design process. Through demonstrations, practical exercises and tutorials, students develop an understanding of how pattern manipulation impacts the silhouette and details of a garment.
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Construction
This course allows students to develop the complex stages and details for tailored garments through the basic construction of a ready-to-wear tailored suit, such as notch collars, pockets, facing, lining, sleeves, and slits.
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Digital Fashion
An introduction to digital fabrication tools using CLO3D & Adobe Suite, this course will offer a thorough overview of what can be accomplished digitally; from the design development phase to sample production, pattern archiving, technical sheets, line sheets, order and pricing sheets, and campaigns.
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Feltmaking
Felting is a method of fabric construction by which wool fibers are matted together through the process of agitation and the addition of water. Students gain a comprehensive understanding of the concepts and techniques of feltmaking, including 2D and 3D felting, as well as wet and dry processes.
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Introduction to Tailoring
Through demonstrations, practical exercises, and tutorials, students develop an understanding of how a pattern impacts the silhouette and details of a garment, and gain an understanding of 2D fabric cutting and suitable construction methods.
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Digital Studio
In this course, students learn how to implement their creative process within the digital realm through tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.
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Fashion Illustration
Illustration by student Karim Karam
This holistic live sketching and illustration course focuses on observing a subject, studying its nature, analyzing its details and linking these concepts to the fashion design process. Students will come to understand materials, textures, colors and light, and translate them to the canvas.
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