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WOMENSWEAR PATTERNMAKING - BASIC COURSE (1 YEAR)

Content

The course objective is to learn the basic technical skills and knowledge needed to create skirts, vests, shirts, and trousers. It will also include an introduction to the techniques necessary for transforming these basic designs, in order to achieve a finished product. It will deal with garment-making techniques, the history of fashion, textile science, fashion-plate techniques, and Cad computer science. The study of these elements within the course program guarantees basic and specific professional training. Methodology The course is taught by highly qualified professors who are professionals within the fashion sector. It includes mainly hands-on lessons, which foresee the use of Polimoda's various laboratories. Students will have the possibility to practice their craft in labs equipped for pattern-making, sewing, design, and computers. The course program includes visits to garment-making industries that work with cloth, leather, and fur. Students will also visit textile and fabric-making companies. For the more theoretical classes, the curriculum includes a series of on-site visits to related museums and exhibits. During their semester assessment period, in addition to hands-on exams, students will do photographic research projects in style and design. Theoretical assignments will also be given in preparation for final exams.

Program Content

In addition to learning the techniques of industrial pattern-making, students will also learn to create silhouette lines, and to balance proportions, as well as how to design and analyze fashion plates, in order to create paper-patterns. Basic Pattern-Making Industrial and hand-crafted pattern-making Garment-making techniques Fashion Plate techniques Textiles and Company Field-trips The History of Costume and Fashion Cad Cam Paper Patterns At the end of the course, students will participate in a three-month internship within a garment-making company. A diploma in clothes pattern-making gives students the possibility to enroll in the second year of Polimoda's Fashion Design Course, by taking three supplementary exams and sustaining an interview with the head of the Fashion Design Department.

Eligibility

Enrollment is open to all applicants who have earned a high school diploma. Course is open to a limited number of applicants

Employment Opportunities

The wide range of diversified subjects included in the study plan, combined with the high quality of the training program, allows students to achieve adequate preparation for the following occupational roles: Pattern-maker for Women's Clothing CAD Operator for Pattern-making and Size Development Collection Coordinator and Designer In order to enter the internship program, perspective interns have an interview with their Head of Department, who assesses their preparation and motivation. Other elements taken into consideration are their attendance record, their grade point average and the documentation required by the students' regulations. On the basis of merit, the Head of Department proceeds then to direct students to the kind of firms they can get in contact with for their period of internship.

Admissions

The admissions exam consists of the following elements: Portfolio, written test, and autobiographical essay to be written at home, based on the indications provided by the college. Interview and Practical Examination (students will be asked to draw a sketch of a basic skirt, following the explanation and demonstration provided by a teacher), on site, in Florence at Via Baldovinetti 3.

Course duration

Total length of course: one year + three-month internship , designed for students who intend to conclude their studies in only one year.

Cost

You can find information regarding the cost of the course here!

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