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Costume Design for Film

Design costumes for film and TV. Examining comedy, horror, and drama, you’ll learn how color and silhouette affect the audiences’ perception of character and how continuity and fabric choices can address the specific needs of film design.

Corsetry and Underpinnings

Create corsetry as both outer garment and underpinning. You will cut and construct different styles and shapes of corsets to use with draped design ideas, producing finished pieces.

Fashion Styling

Styling is visual storytelling. You will develop concept drawings from cultural references and assemble compelling outfits to create fashion imagery. You will put the foundations of personal, product, and editorial styling into practice.

Fashion Business: Trend Analysis

Learn tips for anticipating trends. You will study the evolutionary nature and cultural context affecting products and learn to collect, analyze, and synthesize data to predict and understand fashion trends.

Fabric and Fiber Technology

Know your textiles. Through hands-on analysis of fabric swatches, you’ll identify the properties of textiles and how they relate to performance and end use.

History of Fashion

Focus on key moments in fashion history across time and culture as reference points for current fashion and design. You will explore modes of dress and ideals of beauty by highlighting the sources of influence on current fashion.

Styling

Help designers and brands tell their stories. You will develop concept drawings from cultural references and assemble compelling outfits to create fashion imagery. You will put the foundations of personal, product, and editorial styling into practice.

Directed Study

Refine your skills. As a Master of Fine Arts degree candidate, you’ll complete course assignments to develop the conceptual, design, and technical skills needed to successfully complete your MFA Thesis Project and/or portfolio. You must have passed your midpoint review. Director approval required. Fees and prerequisites will vary by topic.

Textiles: Intermediate Knit Designs and Garment Construction

Interpret basic construction processes to master intermediate single-bed machine, hand knit, double-bed knitting machine, and crochet techniques. Plus, you will interpret and develop ideas in knitwear textile and design projects.

Virtual Garment Development

Master CLO3D-a unique software that lets you develop individual looks and garments in a virtual space with the potential of creating them in real life. You will learn to apply the tools and functions of this fashion-industry software to your own work.