Fashion Illustration Design

  Italy

• Milan: 
Milan

Term: Throughout the year 

Description: The course Fashion Illustration Design is designated to young creators that want to take the fashion design career and all those that intend to give design a true and proper artistic expression, free and personal of strong visual impact.

To achieve such a goal, the course is divided into 3 parts in which the fundamental knowledge of techniques, instruments, and applications is applied to the immediate and efficient management of methodology projects.

The first part (practical, technological, instrumental) includes a technological area concerning support, materials, manual graphical pictorial techniques, colour, suggestions for the best use of the multimedia instruments (camera, photocopier, etc.), and the use of graphics on the computer (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Painter, and others).

The second part (practical operative laboratory of design of fashion illustrations) draws on an area of technological projects and more specifically on design: fashion figures, images, costumes, dresses and textiles, accessories, jewellery, perfumes until arriving at your own personal style to create an individual book and its commercial presentation.

The third part of the Fashion Illustration Design course provides paths of theoretic/seminar knowledge, focusing on such topics as the historic search of images of Fashion Illustration derived from the archives of museums, from newspapers and fashion houses, from the private archives of artists, their sketches and designs, small or great, dated back from 1900 until today.

Highlights: **Professional Opportunities

The Fashion Designer can work as an employee in a fashion company, or as a freelance opening a business or providing consultancy. The roles Fashion Illustration Designer covers are as follows:

- Dress designer. To create, design and develop complete collections working autonomously or for a company;
- Pattern maker. To specializeon the creation of textiles and the cutting techniques;
- Journalist. To focus on the editorial scene an expert of fashion and costume;
- Fashion Illustrator. To design for specialized magazines or editorial houses;
- Costume designer. To work in the theatrical, motion-picture, or television fields.

Degree Level: Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Italy Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 10

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Other
• Phone Interview
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Job and Internship Network

UpToDate Fashion Academy's Mission Statement: Uptodate Fashion Academy was established with the basic aim of developing a high quality educational project focused on specific and strongly sought-after branches of the fashion business. Since then, Uptodate has developed and specialized on markedly innovative sides of the fashion business, quickly building up a reputation as a distinguished, unique player in the Milan fashion scene and attracting an increasingly large international audience. The Academy's vision is to give untrained students the chance to turn into high qualified professionals thanks to intensive, full time programs steadily connected to the strongest demands of the current fashion business. Located in a two storey facility in the very heart of Milan, close to the major fashion streets of the city, Uptodate Fashion Academy relies upon a stunning location, internationally renowned teachers, a special and certified didactic method and a strong job placement service in order to provide students with the highest level of quality to study and learn fashion in Milan.

Year Founded: 2001