Fashion Pattern Maker Course

Purpose
The course provides the basic knowledge necessary for a professional to evaluate the wearability of a pattern and identify the most appropriate design project for the realisation of the creative project.

Aims
Our aim is to train a professional figure who fully understands the designer's idea and without changing it, makes its production feasible whilst bearing in mind the economic needs of the company. A professional who is able to manage the pattern range and its wearability, who has the industry-specific skills that allow them to choose the materials, products and techniques most appropriate for the use of the company's equipment.

Participants
The job-oriented courses are opened to all those, who regardless of their age and experience, wish to acquire or increase their technical skills and artistic ability in the area of pattern making in High Fashion. In particular, the courses are aimed at:

• workers in the fashion industry (production, design, retail)

• people qualified in technical subjects (pattern makers) or artistic subjects (designers)

Organisation Of The Job-Oriented Courses
The lessons are of a theoretical-practical nature; each topic covered is presented with concrete examples together with practical exercises in a Pattern Making Workshop. The teaching activities include the elaboration of a practical assignment, how to follow a pattern, the realisation of a design project and the production of a prototype.

Teachers
The teaching body is made up of university professors, industry professionals and experts.

Admissions Criteria
Anyone who holds a secondary school leaving qualification may be admitted to the job-oriented courses. The full-time job-oriented courses have a fixed number of places: those interested can enrol from the 5th June - 20th July, 20 participants will be chosen on the basis of the admission test results.

The Five Teaching Aims
Create: transfer knowledge, experiential and methodological data in order to shape and consolidate technical-professional and artistic-creative knowledge.
Communicate: provide technical-graphic procedures for the definition of design ideas.
Design: introduce the specific themes of patterns to transform ideas into prototypes.
Realise: present the most appropriate materials and techniques to materialise the creative idea in an execution project.
Work: provide the key skills to operate in the professional world.

Final Exam
The exam consists of the presentation and discussion of the graphic-creative project elaborated during the course. A book with images of the intermediary phases and of the patterns produced will bear witness to the development of the project.
At the end of the chosen job-oriented course, students will receive a qualification certificate.