The course objective is to provide students with the first basic tools to tackle Fashion and Costume Design. Teachers will illustrate the elements needed to represent and communicate typical cultural scenarios and design ideas as well as teaching students about traditional and innovative graphic techniques.

Students must learn not only the geometric code required to consciously represent existing and imaginary forms, but also study in-depth the geometric, proportional and perceptive tools that will allow them to manipulate those forms. Students will acquire the manual skills needed to become proficient in the use of the more simple and direct graphic techniques thanks to multiple exercises in free-hand drawing and line drawing, with a particular focus on chromatic aspects. Students will also be taught the basic notions of the Fundamentals of the Geometry of Representation.

This initial part of the course on the theory and techniques of drawing is intended to impart these skills. Students will take part in several training activities during which they will produce work for each to demonstrate they have achieved the course objectives.

This graphic work should be considered as a series of steps in their training which includes various didactic activities: lessons ex cathedra held by the teachers, exercises in the classroom (ex tempore) and outdoor lessons. Students are required to record these activities, in the form of notes and drawings, in a notebook; which must be kept up to date and in order so that it can be presented each time the teacher asks to see it.

 

In addition, students will use another, smaller A5 notebook to record sketches, ideas and considerations about the subjects taught during the course. At the end of the course students should be able to use suitable methods and tools to “observe, interpret, analyse and represent” the characteristic features of the world of fashion.