Handbook

This advanced course explores the fashion design process from initial design to prototype through a critique of the social, political, and cultural expression of clothes. To do this, you will examine fashion semiotics and the clothing user, and activist movements that use fashion as a medium for change. During the course you will engage in a research-based approach to design to create an innovative fashion prototype for an identified clothing user. Moreover, you will explore the methods used to visually present fashion products to different audiences. In building on previous knowledge gained in fashion for sustainability and the circular economy, the course also examines the relationship between aesthetics and the lifespan of clothes.